Tales of My Landlord,: The black dwarfWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1816 - 347 páginas |
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... person whom he chanced to meet in his journey , when , according to the vulgar adage , he might possibly be greeted with more kicks than half- pence . But , secondly , supposing it again 1 urged that Ithacus , the most wise of the 6 ...
... person whom he chanced to meet in his journey , when , according to the vulgar adage , he might possibly be greeted with more kicks than half- pence . But , secondly , supposing it again 1 urged that Ithacus , the most wise of the 6 ...
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... person called Peter , or Patrick , Pattieson , who had been educated in our Holy Kirk , yea , had , by the licence of presbytery , his voice opened there- in as a preacher , who delighted in the collection of olden tales and legends ...
... person called Peter , or Patrick , Pattieson , who had been educated in our Holy Kirk , yea , had , by the licence of presbytery , his voice opened there- in as a preacher , who delighted in the collection of olden tales and legends ...
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... ceded by a short introduction , men- tioning the persons by whom , and the circumstances under which , the ma- terials thereof were collected . JEDIDIAH CLEISH BOTHAM . THE BLACK DWARF . 1 TALE I. THE BLACK DWARF INTRODUCTION . 21.
... ceded by a short introduction , men- tioning the persons by whom , and the circumstances under which , the ma- terials thereof were collected . JEDIDIAH CLEISH BOTHAM . THE BLACK DWARF . 1 TALE I. THE BLACK DWARF INTRODUCTION . 21.
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... person , and holding him by the reins as he dismounted , while his ostler rendered the same service to the attendant , welcomed the stranger to Gandercleugh , and , in the same breath , enquired , what news from the south hie - lands ...
... person , and holding him by the reins as he dismounted , while his ostler rendered the same service to the attendant , welcomed the stranger to Gandercleugh , and , in the same breath , enquired , what news from the south hie - lands ...
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... persons connected with the wild and pas- toral district in which the scene of the fol- lowing narrativè is placed , and I was fortu- nate enough to recover many links of the story , not generally known , and which ac- count , at least ...
... persons connected with the wild and pas- toral district in which the scene of the fol- lowing narrativè is placed , and I was fortu- nate enough to recover many links of the story , not generally known , and which ac- count , at least ...
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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.