The Caledonian, Volume 4Caledonian Publishing Company, 1904 |
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... story as Auld Wat of Harden . The same year that witnessed the death of one of the first masters of the English novel , Tobias Smollett , saw the birth of the greatest . Walter Scott was born in the old quar- ter of Edinburgh , on ...
... story as Auld Wat of Harden . The same year that witnessed the death of one of the first masters of the English novel , Tobias Smollett , saw the birth of the greatest . Walter Scott was born in the old quar- ter of Edinburgh , on ...
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ens puts into the mouth of Mr. Adolphus Tatterby in his Christmas story of " The Haunted Man " : " It is an undoubted fact that all remarkable men have had re- markable mothers , and have respected them in after life as their best ...
ens puts into the mouth of Mr. Adolphus Tatterby in his Christmas story of " The Haunted Man " : " It is an undoubted fact that all remarkable men have had re- markable mothers , and have respected them in after life as their best ...
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... story - teller made him , as the same gift had made Samuel Richardson , the father of the modern novel , a cen- tury before , the center of attraction among his school - fellows . Often amid the dull routine of lessons would he whisper ...
... story - teller made him , as the same gift had made Samuel Richardson , the father of the modern novel , a cen- tury before , the center of attraction among his school - fellows . Often amid the dull routine of lessons would he whisper ...
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... story with the words , " Yes , gentlemen , and poor Andra was my ain third cousin by the mother's side , peace be to his dust . " RULERS OF ENGLAND . First , William the Norman , Then William his son ; Henry , Stephen and Henry , Then ...
... story with the words , " Yes , gentlemen , and poor Andra was my ain third cousin by the mother's side , peace be to his dust . " RULERS OF ENGLAND . First , William the Norman , Then William his son ; Henry , Stephen and Henry , Then ...
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... story . He re- membered a lich - gate in front of a beautiful church which had been restored and made very nice . There was painted over the door , " This is the Gate of Heaven , " and underneath was the large notice , " Go round the ...
... story . He re- membered a lich - gate in front of a beautiful church which had been restored and made very nice . There was painted over the door , " This is the Gate of Heaven , " and underneath was the large notice , " Go round the ...
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Page 72 - His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide — He wales a portion with judicious care, And 'Let us worship God ! ' he says with solemn air. They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim: Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs...
Page 37 - And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain.
Page 24 - Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 93 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Page 17 - Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.
Page 37 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 8 - She had a mind peculiarly well stored with much acquired information and natural talent, and as she was very old, and had an excellent memory, she could draw without the least exaggeration or affectation the most striking pictures of the past age. If I have been able to do anything in the way of painting the past times, it is very much from the studies with which she presented me.
Page 19 - I protest before God and your lordships, that I profess and allow with my heart the true religion presently professed within this realm, and authorized by the laws thereof; I shall abide thereat and defend the same to my life's end, renouncing the Roman religion called papistry.
Page 24 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 40 - I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain That morn shall tearless be.