My heart's in the Highlands, by the author of 'The nut-brown maids'.Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand, 1861 - 434 sider |
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... caused the great scholar rather to shudder with aversion than hold up his hands with delight . And if any poor finical , quaking , or grumbling fine gentleman had crossed Mary's path , it is to be feared she too would have been quite ...
... caused the great scholar rather to shudder with aversion than hold up his hands with delight . And if any poor finical , quaking , or grumbling fine gentleman had crossed Mary's path , it is to be feared she too would have been quite ...
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... cause , and it was always attested as evidence that , although the devil rewarded him with freedom and office , and a certain measure of rank and fortune , personally a curse clung to him . He married , late in life , a weak - minded ...
... cause , and it was always attested as evidence that , although the devil rewarded him with freedom and office , and a certain measure of rank and fortune , personally a curse clung to him . He married , late in life , a weak - minded ...
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... caused a posthumous reconciliation with his north country brethren , though they were then more generally sentenced for the royal failing of pride than the beggar's vice of avarice . The trader Mac- donald left one orphan daughter to ...
... caused a posthumous reconciliation with his north country brethren , though they were then more generally sentenced for the royal failing of pride than the beggar's vice of avarice . The trader Mac- donald left one orphan daughter to ...
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... cause the kipper to be over- boiled , like a clever - footed lass . ' Finralia got the last glimpse of Mary with her light curls fluttering in the wind , and that common attire of the habit drawn easily over her arm ; and although he ...
... cause the kipper to be over- boiled , like a clever - footed lass . ' Finralia got the last glimpse of Mary with her light curls fluttering in the wind , and that common attire of the habit drawn easily over her arm ; and although he ...
Side 48
... cause why she should cast a stone at them , point them out to reprobation , or com- promise them still more decidedly than they had compromised themselves . ( It was only where no pre- vious association existed , or the traditions of ...
... cause why she should cast a stone at them , point them out to reprobation , or com- promise them still more decidedly than they had compromised themselves . ( It was only where no pre- vious association existed , or the traditions of ...
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Anne Macdonald Anne's answered asked bear believe better cause Charlie child clear coming Country course cried Croclune cross dance dark daughter dear eyes face father fear feel fellow Finralia Flora fortune friends girl give glen half hand hard head hear heard heart Highland hills hold honour John Dunglas kind lady Laird laugh least leave less lived loch look Macdonnel Maclean Mary Aldour Mary's mean mind Miss Ussie morning mother mountains Nancy nature never night once person poor rest Robertson round side speak spirit standing stood strong summer sure sweet tell thing thought took true trust turned unless walk whole wife wild wish woman women wonder young
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Side 106 - Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm* of earliest birds; pleasant the Sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient* beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile Earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming-on Of grateful Evening mild...
Side 430 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Side 88 - She bestows her year's wages at next fair; and in choosing her garments, counts no bravery in the world like decency. The garden and beehive are all her physic and chirurgery, and she lives the longer for it.
Side 106 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Side 106 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Side 12 - Bright are the chiefs of battle, in the armor of their fathers. Gloomy and dark their heroes follow, like the gathering of the rainy clouds behind the red meteors of heaven. The sounds of crashing arms ascend.
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Side 88 - Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. Yet her memory was not of the best, and was impaired in the latter years of her life. But I cannot call to mind that I ever once heard her make a wrong judgment of persons, books, or affairs.
Side 6 - He wore a pair of brogues, Tartan hose which came up only near to his knees, and left them bare, a purple camblet kilt, a black waistcoat, a short green cloth coat bound with gold cord, a yellowish bushy wig, a large blue bonnet with a gold thread button.