The Recreations of Christopher North, Volumen2William Blackwood & sons, 1842 |
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... Single - breasted our coatee - and we are in shorts . Were our name to be imposed by our hat , it would be Sir Cloudesly Shovel . On our back a wallet - and in our hand the Crutch . And thus , not without occasional alarm to the cattle ...
... Single - breasted our coatee - and we are in shorts . Were our name to be imposed by our hat , it would be Sir Cloudesly Shovel . On our back a wallet - and in our hand the Crutch . And thus , not without occasional alarm to the cattle ...
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... single frame ; yet a vacant space has always been found for every new chef - d'œuvre that came to add itself to our collection - and the light from that cupola so distributes itself that it falls wherever it is wanted - wherever it is ...
... single frame ; yet a vacant space has always been found for every new chef - d'œuvre that came to add itself to our collection - and the light from that cupola so distributes itself that it falls wherever it is wanted - wherever it is ...
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... single symptom or particle of Imagination ? It is of Passion " all compact . " True , this is not a finished picture ' tis but a slight sketch of the season of Youth ; but paint it as you will , and if faithful to nature you will find ...
... single symptom or particle of Imagination ? It is of Passion " all compact . " True , this is not a finished picture ' tis but a slight sketch of the season of Youth ; but paint it as you will , and if faithful to nature you will find ...
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... single individual self , our senses tell us , in a language not to be misinterpreted , that he must have become defunct in the darkness of antiquity . But nothing can be too old for a devil - so at supper let us rectify him in Cayenne ...
... single individual self , our senses tell us , in a language not to be misinterpreted , that he must have become defunct in the darkness of antiquity . But nothing can be too old for a devil - so at supper let us rectify him in Cayenne ...
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... single , rejoicing through the oil - smooth brownness of their barrels in the exquisite workmanship of a Manton and a Lancaster - American rifles , with their stocks more richly silver - chased than you could have thought within reach ...
... single , rejoicing through the oil - smooth brownness of their barrels in the exquisite workmanship of a Manton and a Lancaster - American rifles , with their stocks more richly silver - chased than you could have thought within reach ...
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Adam Morrison bagpipe beauty beneath Black Loch blessing bosom braes breath bright Brown Bess Christian Christopher North cliffs clouds creatures Cruachan Dalmally daugh death delight divine Dr Johnson dream dwelling earth eyes face fear feel feet felt Flora flowers genius glen Glenlivet Gleno gloom glory green greensward Hamish hand happy head hear heard heart heather heaven Highland hills holy hour human imagination inspired light living Loch Loch Awe Logan look May-day mercy moor moral Mount Pleasant mountains nature never night O'Bronte once Ossian passion piety poem poet poetry Ranald religion round sacred Scotland seemed seen shadow Shelty shepherd silent silvan sing sitting smile snow song soul spirit stars sublime sugh sweet thee thou thought touch tree uncon voice whole wild wind Windermere wings wonder woods words
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Página 134 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Página 59 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 379 - When they had heard the king they departed; and lo the star, which they saw in the east, went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
Página 350 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind...
Página 27 - Bear me to the heart of France Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling field! Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war!
Página 377 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill ; For thou art with me ; and thy rod And staff me comfort still.
Página 347 - She was a woman of a steady mind, Tender and deep in her excess of love, Not speaking much, pleased rather with the joy Of her own thoughts : by some especial care Her temper had been framed, as if to make A being — who by adding love to peace Might live on earth a life of happiness.
Página 197 - That, in the merry months o' spring, Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o
Página 332 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Página 332 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church...