Tales of My Landlord,: The black dwarfWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1816 - 347 páginas |
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... evil beings . On this moor she used to hold her revels with her sister hags ; and rings were still pointed out on which no grass nor heath ever grew , the turf being , as it were , calcined by the scorching hoofs of their diabolical ...
... evil beings . On this moor she used to hold her revels with her sister hags ; and rings were still pointed out on which no grass nor heath ever grew , the turf being , as it were , calcined by the scorching hoofs of their diabolical ...
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... evil in the flesh , that gars him ram- pauge in that way after he is dead and gane . " " It seems to me the very madness of misanthropy , " said Earnscliff , following his own current of thought . " And ye didna think it was a spiritual ...
... evil in the flesh , that gars him ram- pauge in that way after he is dead and gane . " " It seems to me the very madness of misanthropy , " said Earnscliff , following his own current of thought . " And ye didna think it was a spiritual ...
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... evil days ! -what can evil beings be coming for to distract a poor country , now it's peacefully settled , and living in love and law ? -O weary on him ! he ne'er brought gude to these lands or the in- dwellers . My father often tauld ...
... evil days ! -what can evil beings be coming for to distract a poor country , now it's peacefully settled , and living in love and law ? -O weary on him ! he ne'er brought gude to these lands or the in- dwellers . My father often tauld ...
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... evil . But his opinion found a very cold audience , and all joined to deprecate his purpose of returning to the spot the next day . " O , my bonnie bairn , " said the old dame , ( for , in the kindness of her heart , she extended her ...
... evil . But his opinion found a very cold audience , and all joined to deprecate his purpose of returning to the spot the next day . " O , my bonnie bairn , " said the old dame , ( for , in the kindness of her heart , she extended her ...
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... evil that's no fashing wi ' you , is clean against law and Scripture . " Earnscliff resigned an argument which he saw no prospect of maintaining with good effect , and the entrance of supper broke off the conversation . Miss Grace had ...
... evil that's no fashing wi ' you , is clean against law and Scripture . " Earnscliff resigned an argument which he saw no prospect of maintaining with good effect , and the entrance of supper broke off the conversation . Miss Grace had ...
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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.