 I find my dogs' feet on my knees. I hear them whining and seeking me everywhere — this is nonsense, but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your heart, and many a...  The Quarterly Review - Page 403edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...this question ? — Poor Will Laidlaw ! — poor Tom Purdie ! — such news will wring your hearts, and many a poor fellow's besides, to whom my prosperity was daily bread. " Ballantyne behaves like himself, and sinks the prospect of his own ruin in contemplating mine. I... | |
 | Anne Manning - Household employees - 1857 - 172 pages
...seeking me everywhere ! Poor Will Laidlaw ! — poor Tom Purdie ! this news will wring your hearts and many a poor fellow's besides, to whom my prosperity was daily bread ! " "Again. — "Things are much worse than I apprehended. Naked we entered the world, and naked we... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1862 - 340 pages
...answer this question ? " Poor Will Laidlaw — poor Tom Purdie — such news will wring your hearts, and many a poor fellow's besides, to whom my prosperity was daily bread. " Ballantyne behaves like himself, and sinks the prospect of his own ruin in contemplating mine. I... | |
 | william blackwood - 1871 - 810 pages
...answer this question ? " Poor Will Laidlaw !— poor Tom Purdie ' — such news will wring your hearts, and many a poor fellow's besides, to whom my prosperity was daily bread." Further on he breaks into an apostrophe more touching still, one which makes the heart contract, and... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 412 pages
...read it unmoved. " Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie," he cries, " such news will wring your hearts, and many a poor fellow's besides, to whom my prosperity was daily bread." Then, with that immediate return to the thought of something to be done, which shows the mettle of... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 374 pages
...read it unmoved. " Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie," he cries, "such news will wring your hearts, and many a poor fellow's besides, to whom my prosperity was .daily bread." Then, with that immediate return to the thought of something to be done, which shows the metal of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, Scottish - 1890 - 444 pages
...this is nonsense, but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your...fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread. Ballantyne behaves like himself, and sinks his own ruin in contemplating mine. I tried to enrich him... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1894 - 158 pages
...This is nonsense, but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie ! this will be news to wring your...besides, to whom my prosperity was daily bread.' The evil day had not yet come in all its reality. Mr Constable went to London, to endeavour to raise money... | |
 | Scotland - 1894 - 480 pages
...but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! Poor Tom Pnrdie ! this will be news to wring your heart, and many a...fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread ! ' Even to so prolific and facile a writer as Scott, the task of beginning life anew was too much.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1900 - 604 pages
...but it is what they would do could they know how things are. Poor Will Laidlaw ! poor Tom Purdie 1 this will be news to wring your heart, and many a...fellow's besides to whom my prosperity was daily bread. . . . For myself the magic wand of the Unknown is shivered in his grasp. He must henceforth be termed... | |
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