Memoirs and resolutions of Adam Graeme of Mossgray, by the author of 'Passages in the life of mrs. Margaret Maitland'. |
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Aberdeenshire Adam Graeme answer banker began better brockit called canna Charlie Graeme cheerful cloud colour dark daughter dreams Edinburgh Edward Maxwell exclaimed Hope eyes face fancy father favourite feelings Firthside gentle girl glad governess grave gray Greenshaw grief Halbert Graeme hand hear heard heart Helen Buchanan honour Hope Oswald Hope's Janet John Brown kindly knew labour Laird of Mossgray light Lilias looked Lucy Murray Maggie mamma maun means Mense mind Miss Buchanan Miss Insches Miss Maxwell Miss Swinton mist Monikie mother Mount Fendie Murrayshaugh natural never pain pale parlour pleasant pony proud quiet Rectory Reverend Robert scarcely Scotland shadow smile solitary sometimes sorrow speak spirit stood stranger strong sure tears tell things thought uncon Victoria Walter Buchanan Whyte William Oswald woman wonder young lady youth
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Страница 248 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Страница 143 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Страница 266 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Страница 189 - Youth! for years so many and sweet, 'Tis known that Thou and I were one, I'll think it but a fond conceit— It cannot be that Thou art gone!
Страница 21 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Страница 16 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy; Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily further from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Страница 189 - This drooping gait, this altered size: But Spring-tide blossoms on thy lips, And tears take sunshine from thine eyes! Life is but thought: so think I will That Youth and I are house-mates still Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!
Страница 2 - But sure as three times three mak nine, I see by ilka score and line, This chap will dearly like our kin', So leeze me on thee, Robin.
Страница 142 - In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering, In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, Forbode not any severing of our loves!
Страница 124 - And, if a dog passed by, she still would quit The shade, and look abroad. On this old bench For hours she sate; and evermore her eye Was busy in the distance, shaping things That made her heart beat quick.