Tales of My Landlord: second seriesM. Carey & Son, 1818 - Great Britain |
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acquainted answered Jeanie Archibald auld bairn Benjamin Butler better betwixt canna captain clergyman companion daughter David Deans dinna Donacha Duke of Argyle duke's Dumbiedikes Duncan Dunlop cheeses Edinburgh Effie Effie's eyes father favour fear feelings frae gang gentleman girl Glass grace gude hand head heard heart HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN Highland honour hope Inverary Jeanie Deans Jeanie's journey kirk Knockdunder Knocktarlitie Lady Staunton Laird land lass Leonard's Libberton live look Lord Madge Wildfire mair Majesty Manse maun mind minister morning mother muckle Murdockson never ower person poor puir Queen Queen Caroline replied Reuben Butler Roseneath Saddletree Scotland seemed seen siller Sir George Staunton sister speak Staun suld sure tell thee thou thought tion tone Tummas unhappy wad hae walk weel whilk wild wish words ye ken ye maun young woman
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Page 18 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page 68 - He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.
Page 27 - A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Page 32 - Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early. Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. 'Tell me, thou bonny bird, When shall I marry me? ' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.
Page 15 - My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped : When down behind the cottage roof, At once, the bright moon dropped. What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!
Page 86 - Wi' yill-caup commentators; Here's crying out for bakes an' gills, An" there the pint-stowp clatters; While thick an' thrang, an' loud an' lang, Wi' logic an' wi' Scripture, They raise a din, that in the end Is like to breed a rupture O
Page 117 - When first they put the name of king upon me, And bade them speak to him ; then prophet-like They hail'd him father to a line of kings : Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
Page 43 - Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong-siding champion, Conscience.
Page 152 - O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly. And the thoughts that ye hae intervened to spare the puir thing's life will be sweeter in that hour, come when it may, than if a word of your mouth could hang the haill Porteous mob at the tail of ae tow.
Page 151 - O madam, if ever ye kend what it was to sorrow for and with a sinning and a suffering creature, whose mind is sae tossed that she can be neither ca'd fit to live or die, have some compassion on our misery...