The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Noctes ambrosianaeW. Blackwood, 1856 |
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... there no breath ? ( Puts his pocket - mirror to North's mouth . ) Thank heaven it dims - he lives ! North , I say again , you old somnolent sinner , " awake , arise , or be for ever fallen ! " North ( motionlessly soliloquising in a ...
... there no breath ? ( Puts his pocket - mirror to North's mouth . ) Thank heaven it dims - he lives ! North , I say again , you old somnolent sinner , " awake , arise , or be for ever fallen ! " North ( motionlessly soliloquising in a ...
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... there is little else of him now . The anatomie vivante would find it difficult to be much more of a skeleton were he a corpse . Yet he is a true Scotchman - for his bones are raw . Could it be as tradition reports that he was once ...
... there is little else of him now . The anatomie vivante would find it difficult to be much more of a skeleton were he a corpse . Yet he is a true Scotchman - for his bones are raw . Could it be as tradition reports that he was once ...
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... there must be many - latent somewhere ; and I have often noticed , sir , a whole green re- gion without a symptom of life , though I knew that it was not a store - farm , and that there must be some hundred scores of the woolly people ...
... there must be many - latent somewhere ; and I have often noticed , sir , a whole green re- gion without a symptom of life , though I knew that it was not a store - farm , and that there must be some hundred scores of the woolly people ...
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... there are neither trouts- Registrar . Nor minnows . North . My dear Registrar , these were charming lines you repeated to me last night . Even Tickler would be moved by them . Tickler . I have a thorough contempt for all poetry ; and I ...
... there are neither trouts- Registrar . Nor minnows . North . My dear Registrar , these were charming lines you repeated to me last night . Even Tickler would be moved by them . Tickler . I have a thorough contempt for all poetry ; and I ...
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... there was nae ice in the Forest- at Duddistane either — and I maistered , during the lang nichts at hame , an ... there's but sma ' chance , for a change has been gradually takin place within these few years , in the ellipse o ...
... there was nae ice in the Forest- at Duddistane either — and I maistered , during the lang nichts at hame , an ... there's but sma ' chance , for a change has been gradually takin place within these few years , in the ellipse o ...
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