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Página xxiv
... Colonel Whitefoord's Whig friends , as pleasantly and as good - humor- edly as if all had been at peace around him . After the battle of Culloden had ruined the hopes of Charles Edward and dispersed his proscribed adherents , it was Colonel ...
... Colonel Whitefoord's Whig friends , as pleasantly and as good - humor- edly as if all had been at peace around him . After the battle of Culloden had ruined the hopes of Charles Edward and dispersed his proscribed adherents , it was Colonel ...
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... Colonel Gardiner , the con nading officer of the regiment , was himself a study for a ro nantic , and at the same ... Colonel Gardiner a peculiar and solemn interest in the eyes of the young soldier . * It may be easily imagined that the ...
... Colonel Gardiner , the con nading officer of the regiment , was himself a study for a ro nantic , and at the same ... Colonel Gardiner a peculiar and solemn interest in the eyes of the young soldier . * It may be easily imagined that the ...
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... colonel for past civilities , and ex- pressing regret that he should have chosen to efface the re- membrance of them by assuming a different tone towards him . The strain of his letter , as well as what he ( Edward ) conceived to be his ...
... colonel for past civilities , and ex- pressing regret that he should have chosen to efface the re- membrance of them by assuming a different tone towards him . The strain of his letter , as well as what he ( Edward ) conceived to be his ...
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... colonel's letter with that of the article in the Gazette , he perceived that his threat of making a report upon his absence had been literally fulfilled , and without inquiry , as it seemed , whether Edward had either received his ...
... colonel's letter with that of the article in the Gazette , he perceived that his threat of making a report upon his absence had been literally fulfilled , and without inquiry , as it seemed , whether Edward had either received his ...
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... Colonel Gardiner , commanding me to join the regiment , an order which , owing to my ab- sence , already mentioned and accounted for , I received too late to be obeyed . If there were any intermediate letters , and certainly from the ...
... Colonel Gardiner , commanding me to join the regiment , an order which , owing to my ab- sence , already mentioned and accounted for , I received too late to be obeyed . If there were any intermediate letters , and certainly from the ...
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Página 94 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 19 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Página 323 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Página 33 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 431 - The gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce, have since united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings as different from their grandfathers, as the existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time.
Página 39 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Página 88 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Página 22 - ... that more common aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring.
Página 432 - Gaelic) to reside, during my childhood and youth, among persons of the above description ; and now, for the purpose of preserving some idea of the ancient manners of which I have witnessed the almost total extinction, I have embodied in imaginary scenes, and ascribed to fictitious characters, a part of the incidents which I then received from those who were actors in them. Indeed, the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact.
Página 108 - there is nothing in Perthshire that she need want, if she ask her father to fetch it,, unless it be too hot or too heavy." " But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer — a common thief!" " Common thief I — no such thing : Donald Bean Lean never lifted less than a drove in his life.