Sir Walter ScottMacmillan, 1878 - 177 páginas |
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... young advocate had bought for her with his first five - guinea fee , —a row of small packets inscribed with her hand , and containing the hair of those of her offspring that had died . before her , his father's snuff - box , and etui ...
... young advocate had bought for her with his first five - guinea fee , —a row of small packets inscribed with her hand , and containing the hair of those of her offspring that had died . before her , his father's snuff - box , and etui ...
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... young people , itself shows how much more they were controversies of the imagination than of faith . I doubt whether Scott's con- victions on the issues of the Past were ever very much more decided than they were during his boyhood ...
... young people , itself shows how much more they were controversies of the imagination than of faith . I doubt whether Scott's con- victions on the issues of the Past were ever very much more decided than they were during his boyhood ...
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... young student of divinity who happened to be in the house was called upon to take the ' big ha ' Bible , ' in the good old fashion of Burns ' Saturday Night : and some progress had been already made in the service , when the good man of ...
... young student of divinity who happened to be in the house was called upon to take the ' big ha ' Bible , ' in the good old fashion of Burns ' Saturday Night : and some progress had been already made in the service , when the good man of ...
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... young lady of much beauty who was coming out of the Greyfriars Church during a shower ; the umbrella was graciously accepted ; and it was not an unprecedented consequence that Scott fell in love with the borrower , who turned out to be ...
... young lady of much beauty who was coming out of the Greyfriars Church during a shower ; the umbrella was graciously accepted ; and it was not an unprecedented consequence that Scott fell in love with the borrower , who turned out to be ...
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... young lady , or she was mistaken as to the impression he had made on herself , or whether other circumstances intervened to cause misunderstanding , or the grand in- difference of Sir John gave way to active intervention when the ...
... young lady , or she was mistaken as to the impression he had made on herself , or whether other circumstances intervened to cause misunderstanding , or the grand in- difference of Sir John gave way to active intervention when the ...
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Página 20 - 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.
Página 174 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. [The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the...
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Página 53 - At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had pealed the banner-cry of hell...
Página 164 - Like guests that meet, and some from far, By cordial love invited. And if, as Yarrow, through the woods And down the meadow ranging, Did meet us with unaltered face, Though we were changed and changing ; If, then, some natural shadows spread Our inward prospect over, The soul's deep valley was not slow Its brightness to recover.
Página 46 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot ; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost...