Rab and his friends, and other papers. 12th edD. Douglas, 1882 |
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... called my father , and they two saw her open her blue , kind , and true eyes , ' comfortable ' to us all ' as the smells of flowers and leaves , the tastes of wild fruits - they touch and awaken the memory in a strange way . ' Tibbie ...
... called my father , and they two saw her open her blue , kind , and true eyes , ' comfortable ' to us all ' as the smells of flowers and leaves , the tastes of wild fruits - they touch and awaken the memory in a strange way . ' Tibbie ...
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... called Wonderful , Counsellor , the mighty God , ' by a peremptory , explosive sharpness , as of thunder over- head , at the words , ' the mighty God , ' similar to the rendering now given to Handel's music , and doubtless so meant by ...
... called Wonderful , Counsellor , the mighty God , ' by a peremptory , explosive sharpness , as of thunder over- head , at the words , ' the mighty God , ' similar to the rendering now given to Handel's music , and doubtless so meant by ...
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... called selenology , or the doctrine of the moon , and the higher geometry and physics ; Hebrew , San- scrit , Greek , and Latin , to the veriest rigours of pro- sody and metre ; Spanish and Italian , German , French , and any odd ...
... called selenology , or the doctrine of the moon , and the higher geometry and physics ; Hebrew , San- scrit , Greek , and Latin , to the veriest rigours of pro- sody and metre ; Spanish and Italian , German , French , and any odd ...
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... called style , with a face almost too beautiful for a man's , had not his eyes commanded it and all who looked at it , and his close , firm mouth been ready to say what the fiery spirit might bid ; his eyes , when at rest , expressing ...
... called style , with a face almost too beautiful for a man's , had not his eyes commanded it and all who looked at it , and his close , firm mouth been ready to say what the fiery spirit might bid ; his eyes , when at rest , expressing ...
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... called , if I forget not , Goliath for his minister , with all sorts of injunctions to me to keep him off the thoroughbred , and on Goliath . My father had not been on a horse for nearly twenty years . He mounted and rode off . He soon ...
... called , if I forget not , Goliath for his minister , with all sorts of injunctions to me to keep him off the thoroughbred , and on Goliath . My father had not been on a horse for nearly twenty years . He mounted and rode off . He soon ...
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Page 290 - The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light.
Page 95 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 104 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 420 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But...
Page 55 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Page 108 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 355 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 62 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 95 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 105 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.