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... Scotland's super- low - coloured , and he took the trouble to fluous population to be used up , and her ( very produce about a round dozen of similar an- far from superfluous ) cash to be wasted in nunciations , the bloom of which did ...
... Scotland's super- low - coloured , and he took the trouble to fluous population to be used up , and her ( very produce about a round dozen of similar an- far from superfluous ) cash to be wasted in nunciations , the bloom of which did ...
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... Scotland was not better than at pre- sent . " " You would not , however , include the most barbarous and early period , I sup . pose , ” said Andrew , " when men wore the skins of beasts , lived in the marshes , or in dens made of loose ...
... Scotland was not better than at pre- sent . " " You would not , however , include the most barbarous and early period , I sup . pose , ” said Andrew , " when men wore the skins of beasts , lived in the marshes , or in dens made of loose ...
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... Scotland was divided into two parties , for the Stuarts and Douglasses , and only the factions of our neighbours of England , as inveterate as our own , kept them from pouncing upon us and swallow- ing us up ? -James III . , Lord love ...
... Scotland was divided into two parties , for the Stuarts and Douglasses , and only the factions of our neighbours of England , as inveterate as our own , kept them from pouncing upon us and swallow- ing us up ? -James III . , Lord love ...
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... Scotland by a vindictive rival . " James VI . , " said Andrew , in continua- tion , “ was , during his residence in Scot- land , a foot - ball to Fortune and to his factious nobles , like his ancestors before him , and with a single ...
... Scotland by a vindictive rival . " James VI . , " said Andrew , in continua- tion , “ was , during his residence in Scot- land , a foot - ball to Fortune and to his factious nobles , like his ancestors before him , and with a single ...
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... Scotland , he had , somehow or other , fallen in with a book called Nisbett's Heraldry ; and the first strange symptom that appeared , was Moses M'Crae , a glover , who suggested to . him an idea which has given a new colour to his ...
... Scotland , he had , somehow or other , fallen in with a book called Nisbett's Heraldry ; and the first strange symptom that appeared , was Moses M'Crae , a glover , who suggested to . him an idea which has given a new colour to his ...
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Page 171 - Oh! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...
Page 209 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now. What am I? Nothing; but not so art thou, Soul of my thought! with whom I traverse earth, Invisible but gazing, as I glow Mix'd with thy spirit, blended with thy birth, And feeling still with thee in my crush'd feelings
Page 163 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Page 116 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds, that lower'd upon our house, In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Page 209 - Cut to his heart again with the keen knife Of silent, sharp endurance: he can tell Why thought seeks refuge in lone caves, yet rife With airy images, and shapes which dwell Still unimpair'd, though old, in the soul's haunted cell.
Page 26 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 28 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Page 171 - The' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor lov'd the less For flowering in a wilderness. Our sands are bare, but down their slope The silvery-footed antelope As gracefully and gaily springs As o'er the marble courts of kings.
Page 190 - Boastful and rough, your first son is a 'squire ; The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar ; Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave ; "Will sneaks a scrivener, an exceeding knave.
Page 182 - Thus Nature spake — The work was done — How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left to me This heath, this calm, and quiet scene ; The memory of what has been, And never more will be.