Tales of My Landlord: Second series, Volumen3Archibald Constable, 1818 - 375 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
answered Jeanie Archibald auld bairn Balchristie betwixt Bickerton bonnie Butler canna clergyman companion daugh de'il decent devil dinna door dress Duke of Argyle Dumbiedikes Edinburgh Effie eyes father Ferrybridge frae gang gate gaun George Staunton girl Glass Grace gude haena hand hear heart HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN honour hope horse isna Jeanie Deans Jeanie's journey kenn'd Laird lass Levitt Libberton looked Lord Lunnon madam Madge Wildfire Madge's mair Majesty maun means mind mony morning mother muckle Murdockson never old woman person pillion poor Porteous puir Queen Caroline racter Rector replied Jeanie Reuben Reverence road Saddletree Scotland Scots seemed sister speak Stubbs Suffolk sure tell thee ther there's thing thou thought tion tone Tummas turned wad hae walk weel wench whilk wish word ye ken ye maun young woman
Pasajes populares
Página 112 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Página 57 - A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Página 90 - And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
Página 324 - O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly. And the thoughts that ye hae intervened to spare the puir thing's life will be sweeter in that hour, come when it may, than if a word of your mouth could hang the haill Porteous mob at the tail of ae tow.
Página 3 - Tis the voice of the sluggard ; I heard him complain, " You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head. "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber...
Página 144 - He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride. He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide. I am content with what I have, Little be it or much ; And, Lord, contentment still I crave, Because thou savest such. Fulness to such a burden is, That go on pilgrimage ; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
Página 324 - Alas ! it is not when we sleep soft and wake merrily ourselves, that we think on other people's sufferings. Our hearts are waxed light within us then, and we are for righting our ain wrangs and fighting our ain battles.
Página 316 - Leddyship to have pity on a poor misguided young creature," in tones so affecting, that, like the notes of some of her native songs, provincial vulgarity was lost in pathos.
Página 323 - O, madam, if ever ye kend what it was to sorrow for and with a sinning and a suffering creature; whose mind is sae tossed that she can be neither ca'd fit to live or die, have some compassion on our misery ! — Save an honest house from dishonour, and an unhappy girl, not eighteen years of age, from...
Página 187 - Fantastic passions! maddening brawl! And shame and terror over all! Deeds to be hid which were not hid, Which all confused I could not know Whether I suffered, or I did: For all seemed guilt, remorse or woe, My own or others still the same Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame.