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Page 50
... called a biography . It is not fifty pages long . The wary Scotch au- thor was well aware how vanity in such composi- tions defeats its own object ; he had too much good sense to let it appear in his pages . Perhaps , how - tress who ...
... called a biography . It is not fifty pages long . The wary Scotch au- thor was well aware how vanity in such composi- tions defeats its own object ; he had too much good sense to let it appear in his pages . Perhaps , how - tress who ...
Page 59
... called in lence might be committed with safety . Thence his day a discreet man . " He wished to avoid she was transferred to the equally safe country of scandal , and bore a character for religious zeal , Glengarry , and , after ...
... called in lence might be committed with safety . Thence his day a discreet man . " He wished to avoid she was transferred to the equally safe country of scandal , and bore a character for religious zeal , Glengarry , and , after ...
Page 62
... called him the curse of Scotland ; and when la- dies were at cards , playing the nine of diamonds , commonly called the curse of Scotland , ' they called it the Justice - Clerk . He was indeed of a hot temper , and violent in all his ...
... called him the curse of Scotland ; and when la- dies were at cards , playing the nine of diamonds , commonly called the curse of Scotland , ' they called it the Justice - Clerk . He was indeed of a hot temper , and violent in all his ...
Page 64
... called to the great knight ; and told him I came to testify my respect , and ask his commands for Scotland . His answer , with a very dry look and odd air , was , " I have nothing to say to you , my lord . I wish you a good journey ...
... called to the great knight ; and told him I came to testify my respect , and ask his commands for Scotland . His answer , with a very dry look and odd air , was , " I have nothing to say to you , my lord . I wish you a good journey ...
Page 66
... called forth the next to immortal letter to Lady Murray , begging me to deliver it and compliments of Pope - must have been one of the bring an answer . I read it with Lady Murray . It brilliant circle ; and in the early period of his ...
... called forth the next to immortal letter to Lady Murray , begging me to deliver it and compliments of Pope - must have been one of the bring an answer . I read it with Lady Murray . It brilliant circle ; and in the early period of his ...
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Page 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...