... bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan. Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs; look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the... Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Страница 125по Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 страници
...oratorical in general scheme. In a most careful recent scrutiny I have found little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them...ever cut | in the bonny | woods | of Ellangowan." I have bracketed and italicised one clause because it is of the nature of a parenthetic aside, descending... | |
| Francis Henry Pritchard - 1923 - 214 страници
...cradle at hame be the fairer spread up— not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. Here everyday, commonplace speech is exalted into rhetoric — the borderland between prose and verse.... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 676 страници
...at hame be the fairer spread up; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that 's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind...ride e'en your ways; for these are the last words ye 'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods... | |
| Francis Henry Pritchard - 1924 - 258 страници
...cradle at hame be the fairer spread up — not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born • — God forbid- — and...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. Here everyday, commonplace speech is exalted into rhetoric — the borderland between prose and verse.... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 страници
...at hame be the fairer spread up : not that I'm wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that 's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind...ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words yc'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods... | |
| 1928 - 438 страници
...shealings at Derncleugh — see that the hare does not couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan ! and ending: And now, ride e'en your ways: for these are the last...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. Another romancer's trick which savours rather of the stage than of the study is the revelatory monologue,... | |
| Jerome Mitchell - 1987 - 284 страници
...yet to be born,—God forbid,—and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their fathers! And now, ride e'en your ways; for these are the last...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. Part of the effect here obviously comes from the almost liturgical repetition of "Ride your ways."... | |
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