The antiquary and The black dwarfHoughton Mifflin, 1923 |
Términos y frases comunes
answered Antiquary auld Aweel bairn Baronet beggar better BLACK DWARF brother called canna Captain M'Intyre castle Caxon dear dinna door Dousterswivel Dwarf e'en Earl Earnscliff Edie Ochiltree Ellieslaw Elliot Elshie eneugh exclaimed eyes Fairport father fear frae gaberlunzie gang gentleman goot gude hand Harz haud head hear heard heart Hector hinny Hobbie honour horse Ilderton Isabella Knockwinnock lady leddy look Lord Glenallan Lovel mair Mareschal maun mendicant mind misanthropy Miss Vere Miss Wardour Monkbarns mony morning muckle Mucklebackit mysell naebody never night Oldbuck Oldenbuck ower person phoca poor puir Ratcliffe replied ruins Scotland seemed Sir Arthur Sir Frederick speak spirit Steenie suppose tell thae thee there's thing thou thought tion Troth voice wad hae wadna weel Westburnflat woman womankind word ye'll young yoursell
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Página 118 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Página 321 - Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he ; He play'da spring and danc'd it round, Below the gallows tree.
Página 254 - Tis the fire-shower of ruin all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling ! all lonely return ! For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood, And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood.
Página 208 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side, My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood...
Página 209 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 407 - R d thought that he informed his father of the cause of his distress, adding, that the payment of a considerable sum of money was the more unpleasant to him, because he had a strong consciousness that it was not due, though he was unable to recover any evidence in support of his belief. ' You are right, my son,' replied the paternal shade ; ' I did acquire right to these tiends, for payment of which you are now prosecuted.
Página 126 - Know'st thou not me!" the Deep Voice cried, "So long enjoyed, so oft misused — Alternate, in thy fickle pride, Desired, neglected, and accused? "Before my breath, like, blazing flax, Man and his marvels pass away; And changing empires wane and wax, Are founded, flourish and decay. "Redeem mine hours — the space is brief — While in my glass the sand-grains shiver, And measureless thy joy or grief, When Time and thou shalt part for ever!
Página 407 - ... present prosecution was groundless. But, after an Industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his defence. The period was now near at hand when he conceived the loss of his lawsuit to be inevitable, and he had formed...
Página 221 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who, by stealth, Had, from his wakeful custody, purloin'd The guarded gold...
Página 107 - The herring loves the merry moon-light, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, For they come of a gentle kind.