Hogg's Instructor, Volumes 9-10James Hogg, 1852 - English literature |
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... told me that I should have secured my bed the moment it was hung . Dr Lyon pretended to be asleep , but I knew very well that he was wide awake . My first impulse was to cut the string of the shelf , and let him fall ; but , as there ...
... told me that I should have secured my bed the moment it was hung . Dr Lyon pretended to be asleep , but I knew very well that he was wide awake . My first impulse was to cut the string of the shelf , and let him fall ; but , as there ...
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... told her , in a cold tone , that Mr Pole uld not drive her back again at present , for , that as she Lad not kept her engagement of the previous morning , Mr Pole had left Bideford for some days on particular busi- ness . It was fifteen ...
... told her , in a cold tone , that Mr Pole uld not drive her back again at present , for , that as she Lad not kept her engagement of the previous morning , Mr Pole had left Bideford for some days on particular busi- ness . It was fifteen ...
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... told him that he must be blue or yellow , but he had no notion of those colours in connection with anything but different sorts of jaundice ; and , as he did not wish to offend either blue or yellow , he compromised the matter by ...
... told him that he must be blue or yellow , but he had no notion of those colours in connection with anything but different sorts of jaundice ; and , as he did not wish to offend either blue or yellow , he compromised the matter by ...
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... told how I ran to you the night that the officers took them , and he thinks I know where you are now . He said they ... told me you didn't do it ! You told me you never took any money , and now- ' And now I haven't told you anything ...
... told how I ran to you the night that the officers took them , and he thinks I know where you are now . He said they ... told me you didn't do it ! You told me you never took any money , and now- ' And now I haven't told you anything ...
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... told me then you didn't do it , Jemmy , and I thought you didn't . Oh , it is a dreadful thing to be a thief ! Dreadful , dreadful ! ' ' But Molly , chick , you wouldn't let them take me , and shut me up in a dark prison - State Prison ...
... told me then you didn't do it , Jemmy , and I thought you didn't . Oh , it is a dreadful thing to be a thief ! Dreadful , dreadful ! ' ' But Molly , chick , you wouldn't let them take me , and shut me up in a dark prison - State Prison ...
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Page 280 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Page 33 - O Scotia, my dear, my native soil, For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content...
Page 228 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 156 - Coleridge, to many people, and often I have heard the complaint, seemed to wander; and he seemed then to wander the most when, in fact, his resistance to the wandering instinct was greatest — viz. when the compass and huge circuit, by which his illustrations moved, travelled farthest into remote regions before they began to revolve. Long; before this coming round commenced, most people had lost him, and naturally enough supposed that he had lost himself. They continued to admire the separate beauty...
Page 257 - Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home...
Page 141 - As regards domestic buildings, there must always be a certain limitation to views of this kind in the power, as well as in the hearts, of men ; still I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
Page 58 - ... issue. I, as is usual in dreams (where of necessity we make ourselves central to every movement), had the power, and yet had not the power to decide it. I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet, again, had not the power ; for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. ' Deeper than ever plummet sounded,
Page 258 - Where the rude axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honey'd thigh That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep...
Page 310 - According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Page 129 - I became very vain, and despised most of the boys that were at all near my own age, and before I was eight years old I was a character. Sensibility, imagination, vanity, sloth, and feelings of deep and bitter contempt for almost all who traversed the orbit of my understanding, were even then prominent and manifest.