The AntiquaryWaverly Book Company, 1898 - 401 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... suppose my late respected friend resembled Mr. Oldbuck either in his pedigree or the history imputed to the ideal personage . There is not a single incident in the Novel which is borrowed from his real circumstances , excepting the fact ...
... suppose my late respected friend resembled Mr. Oldbuck either in his pedigree or the history imputed to the ideal personage . There is not a single incident in the Novel which is borrowed from his real circumstances , excepting the fact ...
Pagina 28
... suppose that fools , boors , and idiots have ploughed up the land , and , like beasts and ignorant savages , have thereby obliterated two sides of the square , and greatly injured the third ; but you see yourself the fourth side is ...
... suppose that fools , boors , and idiots have ploughed up the land , and , like beasts and ignorant savages , have thereby obliterated two sides of the square , and greatly injured the third ; but you see yourself the fourth side is ...
Pagina 30
... suppose Agri- cola to have looked forth on the immense army of Caledonians , occupying the declivities of yon opposite hill , the infantry rising rank over rank as the form of ground displayed their array to its utmost advantage , the ...
... suppose Agri- cola to have looked forth on the immense army of Caledonians , occupying the declivities of yon opposite hill , the infantry rising rank over rank as the form of ground displayed their array to its utmost advantage , the ...
Pagina 32
... suppose I think the worse of you for your profession ; they are only prejudiced fools and coxcombs that do so . You re- member what old Tully says in his oration Pro Archia poeta concerning one of your confraternity - Quis nostrum tam ...
... suppose I think the worse of you for your profession ; they are only prejudiced fools and coxcombs that do so . You re- member what old Tully says in his oration Pro Archia poeta concerning one of your confraternity - Quis nostrum tam ...
Pagina 54
... suppose , could write his own name . ” If you mean the observation as a sneer at my ancestry , " said the knight , with an assumption of dignified superiority and composure , " I have the pleasure to inform you that the name of my ...
... suppose , could write his own name . ” If you mean the observation as a sneer at my ancestry , " said the knight , with an assumption of dignified superiority and composure , " I have the pleasure to inform you that the name of my ...
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Pagina 170 - And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Pagina 282 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Pagina 144 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Pagina 48 - He then mounted his horse, and, turning to Morton, repeated the text of Scripture, 'An heavy yoke was ordained for the sons of Adam from the day they go out of their mother's womb till the day that they return to the mother of all things...
Pagina 299 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Pagina 145 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Pagina 83 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Pagina 171 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Pagina 152 - As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Pagina 260 - To see the bier that bears their ancient friend ; For he was one in all their idle sport, And like a monarch ruled their little court ; The pliant bow he...