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... situation like that of Mannering . As the light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and blacker , our travel- ler questioned more closely each chance passen- ger upon his distance from the village of Kipple ...
... situation like that of Mannering . As the light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and blacker , our travel- ler questioned more closely each chance passen- ger upon his distance from the village of Kipple ...
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... situations . Fielding has de- scribed one class as feras consumere nati ; but the love of field - sports indicates a certain activity of mind , which had forsaken Mr Bertram , if ever he possessed it . A good - humoured listlessness of ...
... situations . Fielding has de- scribed one class as feras consumere nati ; but the love of field - sports indicates a certain activity of mind , which had forsaken Mr Bertram , if ever he possessed it . A good - humoured listlessness of ...
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... situation , conveyed the exact impression of an ancient sybil . She sat upon a broken corner - stone in the angle of a paved apartment , part of which she had swept clean to afford a smooth space for the evo- lutions of her spindle . A ...
... situation , conveyed the exact impression of an ancient sybil . She sat upon a broken corner - stone in the angle of a paved apartment , part of which she had swept clean to afford a smooth space for the evo- lutions of her spindle . A ...
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... situation , posted down to his county , and met but an indifferent reception . He was a partizan of the old administration ; and the friends . of the new had already set about an active can- vass in behalf of John Featherhead , Esq ...
... situation , posted down to his county , and met but an indifferent reception . He was a partizan of the old administration ; and the friends . of the new had already set about an active can- vass in behalf of John Featherhead , Esq ...
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... situation in Scotland . It is well known that the gypseys were , at an early period , acknowledged as a separate and in- dependent race by one of the Scottish monarchs , and that they were less favourably distinguished by a subsequent ...
... situation in Scotland . It is well known that the gypseys were , at an early period , acknowledged as a separate and in- dependent race by one of the Scottish monarchs , and that they were less favourably distinguished by a subsequent ...
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Página 150 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Página 31 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Página 160 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 128 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Página 32 - Come and see ! trust thine own eyes ! A fearful sign stands in the house of life...
Página 55 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 66 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Página 41 - Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life.
Página 82 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.