Tales of My Landlord,: The black dwarfWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1816 - 347 páginas |
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... acknowledged by the most sceptical , that I , who have sat in the leathern arm - chair , on the left- hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and summer , for every evening in my life , during INTRODUCTION .
... acknowledged by the most sceptical , that I , who have sat in the leathern arm - chair , on the left- hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and summer , for every evening in my life , during INTRODUCTION .
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... arms for the re- storation of the house of Stuart , whom they regarded , with justice , as their op- pressors ; and the intrigues of the period presented the strange picture of papists , prelatists , and presbyterians , caballing ...
... arms for the re- storation of the house of Stuart , whom they regarded , with justice , as their op- pressors ; and the intrigues of the period presented the strange picture of papists , prelatists , and presbyterians , caballing ...
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... arms were long and brawny , furnished with two muscular hands , and where uncover- ed in the eagerness of his labour , were shagged with coarse black hair . It seemed as if nature had originally intended the separate parts of his body ...
... arms were long and brawny , furnished with two muscular hands , and where uncover- ed in the eagerness of his labour , were shagged with coarse black hair . It seemed as if nature had originally intended the separate parts of his body ...
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... arms and the iron strength of his frame correspond with the shortness of his stature . His cloath- ing was a sort of coarse brown tunic , like a monk's frock , girt round him with a belt of seal - skin . On his head he had a cap made of ...
... arms and the iron strength of his frame correspond with the shortness of his stature . His cloath- ing was a sort of coarse brown tunic , like a monk's frock , girt round him with a belt of seal - skin . On his head he had a cap made of ...
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... arms , and the anxious gloom and bustle which seem to agitate every male in the castle , it may not be impossible for us ( always in case matters be driven to extremity ) to shape out some little supplemental con- spiracy of our own . I ...
... arms , and the anxious gloom and bustle which seem to agitate every male in the castle , it may not be impossible for us ( always in case matters be driven to extremity ) to shape out some little supplemental con- spiracy of our own . I ...
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Página 119 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Página 122 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.