Tales of My Landlord,: The black dwarfWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1816 - 347 páginas |
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... thoughts of ignorance , and the words of vain foolishness . Lo ! ye are caught in your own snare , and your own pit hath yawned for you . Turn , then , aside from the task that is too heavy for you ; destroy not your teeth by gnawing a ...
... thoughts of ignorance , and the words of vain foolishness . Lo ! ye are caught in your own snare , and your own pit hath yawned for you . Turn , then , aside from the task that is too heavy for you ; destroy not your teeth by gnawing a ...
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... followed not the example of those strong poets whom I proposed to him as a pattern , but formed versification of a flimsy and modern texture , to the compound- ing whereof was necessary small pains and less thought . 16 INTRODUCTION .
... followed not the example of those strong poets whom I proposed to him as a pattern , but formed versification of a flimsy and modern texture , to the compound- ing whereof was necessary small pains and less thought . 16 INTRODUCTION .
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Walter Scott. ing whereof was necessary small pains and less thought . And hence I have chid him as being one of those who bring forward the fatal revolution pro- phesied by Mr Robert Carey , in his Vaticination on the Death of the Ce ...
Walter Scott. ing whereof was necessary small pains and less thought . And hence I have chid him as being one of those who bring forward the fatal revolution pro- phesied by Mr Robert Carey , in his Vaticination on the Death of the Ce ...
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... thought . " And ye didna think it was a spiritual creature , then ? " asked Hobbie at his com- panion . " Who , I ? -No , surely . " " Weel , I am partly of the mind mysel that it may be a live thing - and yet I din- na ken , I wadna ...
... thought . " And ye didna think it was a spiritual creature , then ? " asked Hobbie at his com- panion . " Who , I ? -No , surely . " " Weel , I am partly of the mind mysel that it may be a live thing - and yet I din- na ken , I wadna ...
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... thought he brought out the Gospel autho- rities half sae weel as our minister - our minister is thought the best divine and the best preacher atween this and Edin- burgh - Dinna ye think he was likely to be right ? " " Certainly ...
... thought he brought out the Gospel autho- rities half sae weel as our minister - our minister is thought the best divine and the best preacher atween this and Edin- burgh - Dinna ye think he was likely to be right ? " " Certainly ...
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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.