Tales of My Landlord,: The black dwarfWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1816 - 347 páginas |
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... voice opened there- in as a preacher , who delighted in the collection of olden tales and legends , - and in garnishing them with the flowers of poesy , whereof he was a vain and . frivolous professor . For he followed not the example ...
... voice opened there- in as a preacher , who delighted in the collection of olden tales and legends , - and in garnishing them with the flowers of poesy , whereof he was a vain and . frivolous professor . For he followed not the example ...
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... voices , and in ma- king facetious tales and responses , and whom I have to laud for the truth of his dealings towards me . Now , therefore , the world may see the injustice that charges me with in- capacity to write these narratives ...
... voices , and in ma- king facetious tales and responses , and whom I have to laud for the truth of his dealings towards me . Now , therefore , the world may see the injustice that charges me with in- capacity to write these narratives ...
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... voice shout in his rear , and propose to him a partner on the road . He slackened his pace , and was quickly joined by a youth well known to him , a gentleman of some fortune in that remote country , and who had been abroad upon the ...
... voice shout in his rear , and propose to him a partner on the road . He slackened his pace , and was quickly joined by a youth well known to him , a gentleman of some fortune in that remote country , and who had been abroad upon the ...
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... voice re- plied , whose shrill , uncouth , and disso- nant tones made Elliot step two paces back , and startled even his companion , " Pass on your way , and ask nought at them that ask nought at you . " " What do you do here so far ...
... voice re- plied , whose shrill , uncouth , and disso- nant tones made Elliot step two paces back , and startled even his companion , " Pass on your way , and ask nought at them that ask nought at you . " " What do you do here so far ...
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... voices goes through my ears like sharp bodkins . " " Lord safe us ! " said Hobbie , " that the dead should bear sic fearfu ' ill - will to the living ! -his saul maun be in a puir way , I'm jealous . " " Come , my friend , " said ...
... voices goes through my ears like sharp bodkins . " " Lord safe us ! " said Hobbie , " that the dead should bear sic fearfu ' ill - will to the living ! -his saul maun be in a puir way , I'm jealous . " " Come , my friend , " said ...
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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.