Tales of My Landlord, Томове 1–2James Eastburn & Company, at the Literary Rooms, Broadway, 1820 |
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Страница 60 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones ; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Страница 9 - Where this man was born, or what was his real name, I have never been able to learn ; nor are the motives which made him desert his home, and adopt the erratic mode of life which he pursued, known to me, except very generally. According to the belief of most...
Страница 161 - But mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other. From the time that the mother binds the child's head till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have right to ask it of their fellow-mortals; no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Страница 5 - Death has indeed been here, and its traces are before us ; but they are softened and deprived of their horror by our distance from the period when they have been first impressed.
Страница 10 - But wherever they existed, Old Mortality was sure to visit them when his annual round brought them within his reach. In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned.
Страница 76 - Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a newfangled machine* for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dis* See Winnowing Machine.
Страница 145 - ... which seemed adapted to the. court or the saloon rather than to the field. The same gentleness and gaiety of expression which reigned in his features seemed to inspire his actions and gestures; and, on the whole, he was generally esteemed, at first sight, rather qualified to be the votary of pleasure than of ambition. But under this soft exterior was hidden a spirit unbounded in daring and in aspiring, yet cautious and prudent as that of Machiavel himself.
Страница 1 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it ; A chiel's amang you takin' notes, An' faith he'll prent it ! BURNS.
Страница 63 - HEAVY YOKE is upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother's womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things.
Страница 140 - ... the character of the scene was varied considerably for the worse. A hilly, waste, and uncultivated country approached close to the banks; the trees were few, and limited to the neighbourhood of the stream, and the rude moors swelled at a little distance into shapeless and heavy hills, which were again surmounted in their turn by a range of lofty mountains, dimly seen on the horizon. Thus the tower commanded two prospects, the one richly cultivated and highly 176 adorned, the other exhibiting...