Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Bind 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh, 1824 - 331 sider |
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... tone in which Alan began his address to the Court , apologizing for his own presump- tion , and excusing it by the sudden illness of his learned brother , for whom the labour of opening a cause of some difficulty and importance had been ...
... tone in which Alan began his address to the Court , apologizing for his own presump- tion , and excusing it by the sudden illness of his learned brother , for whom the labour of opening a cause of some difficulty and importance had been ...
Side 75
... tones of the blind fiddler , Will , known by the name of Wandering Willie , from his itinerant habits . They continued to advance swiftly and in great order , in their front " The fiery fiddlers playing martial airs ; " when , coming ...
... tones of the blind fiddler , Will , known by the name of Wandering Willie , from his itinerant habits . They continued to advance swiftly and in great order , in their front " The fiery fiddlers playing martial airs ; " when , coming ...
Side 78
... tone , " Whisht a - ye , hinnie - whisht a - ye ; haud your tongue , like a gude bairn - ye have cost us dear aneugh already . My hinnie's clean gane now . " Knowing , as I thought , the phraseology of the wife of the itinerant musician ...
... tone , " Whisht a - ye , hinnie - whisht a - ye ; haud your tongue , like a gude bairn - ye have cost us dear aneugh already . My hinnie's clean gane now . " Knowing , as I thought , the phraseology of the wife of the itinerant musician ...
Side 112
... tone more conciliating . I mentioned the two occasions on which he had certainly saved my life , when at the utmost peril ; and I added , that whatever was the purpose of the restraint now practised on me , as I was given to understand ...
... tone more conciliating . I mentioned the two occasions on which he had certainly saved my life , when at the utmost peril ; and I added , that whatever was the purpose of the restraint now practised on me , as I was given to understand ...
Side 113
... tone too humble for the situation of an injured man , and I am inclined to think so when I again recapitu- late its tenor . But what could I do ? I was in the power of one whose passions seem as violent as his means of gratifying them ...
... tone too humble for the situation of an injured man , and I am inclined to think so when I again recapitu- late its tenor . But what could I do ? I was in the power of one whose passions seem as violent as his means of gratifying them ...
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acquainted addressed Alan Fairford Alan's answered appeared auld Baliol betwixt Birrenswork called cause clerk cobite Court Cristal Nixon danger Darsie Latimer door Dorcas doubt Drudgeit Dumfries Edinburgh Edward Baliol endeavoured escape father favourable folks follow ford Geddes hand heard Herries hinnie honest honour hope horse Jacobites James Wilkinson John Davies Justice Foxley Justice of Peace lady Laird length letter loike look magistrate matter maun Maxwell means ment mind Mount Sharon mutchkin Nanty Ewart never occasion ower party Pate-in-Peril person Poor Peter Peebles present Provost Crosbie purpose Quaker recollection Redgauntlet replied Saint Bees Sallust Saunders Fairford Scotland seemed Shepherd's Bush shew singular Solway Summertrees thee thing thou thought tion tone trepanned Trumbull trust unhappy voice vost warrant weel Whigs wish words young lawyer
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Side 203 - MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here : My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of valour, the country of worth ; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Side 160 - God bless the King !— God bless the Faith's defender !— God bless — No harm in blessing the Pretender. Who that Pretender is, and who that King,*— God bless us all, — is quite another thing.
Side 3 - ... practised by various great authors, and by ourselves in the preceding chapters. Nevertheless, a genuine correspondence of this kind (and Heaven forbid it should be in any respect sophisticated by interpolations of our own !) can seldom be found to contain all in which it is necessary to instruct the reader for his full comprehension of the story.
Side 7 - ... frequently, as his little cellar contained some choice old wine, of which, on such rare occasions, he was no niggard. The whole pleasure of this good old-fashioned man of method, besides that which he really felt in the discharge of his...
Side 203 - ... HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. MY heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer ; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Side 85 - I answered, with an energy of which despair alone could have rendered me capable — " I will never submit to loss of freedom a moment longer than I am subjected to it by force.
Side 240 - I swear and vow by moon and stars, And sun that shines so early, If I had twenty thousand lives, I'd die as aft for Charlie.
Side 326 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.