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... things essential to his great mission , a " poor indifferent affair . " - His time at school was indeed brief and broken . To him the doors of no academy or college were open . Almost from childhood , his was a lot taxed by anxious ...
... things essential to his great mission , a " poor indifferent affair . " - His time at school was indeed brief and broken . To him the doors of no academy or college were open . Almost from childhood , his was a lot taxed by anxious ...
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... thing in my disposition , and an enthusiastic idiot piety . I say idiot piety , because I was but then a child . Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrash- ings , I made an excellent English scholar , and by the time I was ten or ...
... thing in my disposition , and an enthusiastic idiot piety . I say idiot piety , because I was but then a child . Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrash- ings , I made an excellent English scholar , and by the time I was ten or ...
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... things by the name of follies ; but to the sons and daughters of labour and poverty , they are matters of the most serious nature . To them the ardent hope , the stolen interview , the tender farewell , are the greatest and most ...
... things by the name of follies ; but to the sons and daughters of labour and poverty , they are matters of the most serious nature . To them the ardent hope , the stolen interview , the tender farewell , are the greatest and most ...
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... thing which gave my mind a turn was a friendship I formed with a young fellow , a very noble character , but a hapless son of misfortune.1 His mind was fraught with independence , magnanimity , and every manly virtue . I loved and ...
... thing which gave my mind a turn was a friendship I formed with a young fellow , a very noble character , but a hapless son of misfortune.1 His mind was fraught with independence , magnanimity , and every manly virtue . I loved and ...
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... things which were . " Oh , ye illustrious names unknown ! who could feel so strongly , and describe so well : the last , the meanest of the muse's train - one who , though far inferior to your flights , yet eyes your path , and with ...
... things which were . " Oh , ye illustrious names unknown ! who could feel so strongly , and describe so well : the last , the meanest of the muse's train - one who , though far inferior to your flights , yet eyes your path , and with ...
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Page 179 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my...
Page 132 - 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 179 - The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was f u...
Page 78 - Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man ; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Page 133 - O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green, The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twin'd amorous round the raptured scene. " The flowers sprang wanton to be prest, The birds sang love on every spray, Till too, too soon, the glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day! " Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 218 - God hath taken care of all our good, and if " godliness be profitable to all things, and hath the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come...
Page 82 - Wallace's undaunted heart; Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride, Or nobly die, the second glorious part, (The patriot's God, peculiarly thou art, His friend, inspirer, guardian, and reward !) O, never, never, Scotia's realm desert , But still the patriot, and the patriot bard, In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard ! DISDAIN RETURNED.
Page 54 - Is there a man whose judgment clear, Can others teach the course to steer, Yet runs, himself, life's mad career, Wild as the wave; Here pause — and, thro' the starting tear, Survey this grave.
Page 33 - O YE, whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious rev'rence, and attend ! Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father, and the gen'rous friend. The pitying heart that felt for human woe ; The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride ; The friend of man, to vice alone a foe ; " For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.