Stories and SketchesTait, sons, 1892 - 219 sider |
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Aaron Burr beautiful Billy Wood blessed brave bread Carlow Charlotte charm child Christian Cintolese cold Colonel dark dear death Elizabeth Barrett Browning eyes face faith father feel fell fellow felt Ferrara flowers gave George Eliot girl Goethe grand grave Gray grew hand head heard heart honor horse human Italia Donati John John Calvin Kavanagh Kings of Leinster kissed knew Kulm lady Leonora d'Este light lofty look Lucerne Lucy Malcolm Anderson memory morning mother mountain never night noble Oschatz Parisina passion Pike's Peak pleasant poet poor Porciano President Prince remember replied Rigi Robert Morris rose saints seemed sight sister sleep smile solemn sorrow soul spirit story strange sweet tears tender thought Timothy Pickering told took town Vitznau voice walked Washington Werther wife wild wind window woman wonderful young
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Side 192 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Side 95 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her ? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne...
Side 46 - ... in proportion as the thoughts of men and women are removed from the earth on which they live, are...
Side 204 - I dinna care to rest till ye lay me down to tak' my lang rest. There'll be time enough between that day and ihe resurrection to fauld my hands in idleness. Now 'twould be unco irksome. But go, my son, and bring me the wife — I hope I shall like her; and the bairns — I hope they will like me.
Side 203 - All through this touching little speech the widow's eyes had been glistening, and her breath coming fast ; but at that word " mither" she sprang up with a glad cry, and tottering to her son, fell almost fainting on his breast. He kissed her again and again — kissed...
Side 199 - ... a sum sufficient to meet all her wants, and to pay the wages of a faithful servant, or rather companion, for the brisk, independent old lady stoutly refused to be served by any one. Entangled in business cares, Mr. Anderson never found time and freedom for the long voyage, and a visit home ; till at last, failing health, and the necessity of educating his children, compelled him to abruptly wind up his affairs and return to Scotland. He was then a man somewhat over forty, but looking far older...
Side 204 - I hae been spinning or weaving a' these lang years for ye baith, and the weans. " "Well, mother, dear, now you must rest," rejoined the merchant tenderly. " Na, na, I dinna care to rest till ye lay me down to tak
Side 198 - At the early age of sixteen, Malcom Anderson resolved to seek his fortune in the wide world, and became a sailor. He made several voyages to India and China, and always, like the good boy he was, brought home some useful present to his mother, to whom he gave also a large portion of his earnings. But he never liked a seafaring' life, though he grew strong and stalwart in it; and, when about nineteen, he obtained a humble position in a large mercantile house in Calcutta, where, being shrewd, enterprising,...
Side 46 - ... relations and responsibilities, of which they alone know anything, to an invisible world, which can alone be apprehended by belief, they are led to neglect their duty to each other, to squander their strength in vain speculations, which can result in no profit to themselves or their fellowcreatures, which diminish their capacity for strenuous and worthy action during a span of life, brief, indeed, but whose consequences will extend to remote posterity.
Side 93 - Perhaps there never was a fiction which so startled and enraptured the world. Men of all kinds and classes were moved by it. It was the companion of Napoleon, when in Egypt; it penetrated into China. To convey in a sentence its wondrous popularity, we may state that in Germany it became a people's book, hawked about the streets, printed on miserable paper, like an ancient ballad ; and in the Chinese empire, Charlotte and Werther were modelled in porcelain.!