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God keep thee frae thy mother's faes , Or turn their hearts to thee ; And where thou meet'st thy mother's friend , Remember him for me ! O soon , to me , may summer suns Nae mair light up the morn ! Nae mair , to me , the autumn winds ...
God keep thee frae thy mother's faes , Or turn their hearts to thee ; And where thou meet'st thy mother's friend , Remember him for me ! O soon , to me , may summer suns Nae mair light up the morn ! Nae mair , to me , the autumn winds ...
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He was aware that He asked a lady who death was dealing with him . visited him , more in sincerity than in mirth , what commands she had for the other world . He re- pressed with a smile the hopes of his friends ...
He was aware that He asked a lady who death was dealing with him . visited him , more in sincerity than in mirth , what commands she had for the other world . He re- pressed with a smile the hopes of his friends ...
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... he describes as at once so amiable and so great ; and bewails the loss of all his former friends , kindred , and companions , and laments his own forlorn and disconsolate state , in apostrophes that pierce the very soul of pity * !
... he describes as at once so amiable and so great ; and bewails the loss of all his former friends , kindred , and companions , and laments his own forlorn and disconsolate state , in apostrophes that pierce the very soul of pity * !
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This recollection of his departed friends and com- patriots in arms is , if we except a few modern allusions , precisely in the spirit of almost innumer- able passages in the Scottish Ossian , and blended too with the same sense of ...
This recollection of his departed friends and com- patriots in arms is , if we except a few modern allusions , precisely in the spirit of almost innumer- able passages in the Scottish Ossian , and blended too with the same sense of ...
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... but by the ties of consanguinity , love , and friendship , and the recollections of former fame and glory . ... and however greatly we may admire the imagery by kindred and friends , exclaims , " To survive them is my depth of woe ...
... but by the ties of consanguinity , love , and friendship , and the recollections of former fame and glory . ... and however greatly we may admire the imagery by kindred and friends , exclaims , " To survive them is my depth of woe ...
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
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