Antiquary. - Rob RoyA. Constable & Company, 1823 |
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answered Antiquary auld Bailie believe better brother Campbell canna Captain M'Intyre Caxon clerk cousin daugh dear deforcement Diana doubt Dousterswivel Earl Edie Ochiltree Elspeth Eveline exclaimed expression eyes Fairport father favour fear feelings frae Frank gentleman give Greenhorn gude hand head hear heard Heaven Hector honour hope horse Inglewood jacobite Jobson Justice Knockwinnock lady leddy look Lord Geraldin Lord Glenallan lordship magistrate mair manner maun mind misfortune Miss Vernon Miss Wardour mistress Monkbarns Morris muckle nephew neral never Neville occasion Oldbuck Osbaldistone Hall Ossian Owen ower person phoca pleasure poor portmanteau racter Rashleigh recollect replied Scotland seemed shew Sir Arthur Sir Hildebrand six honest men speak Steenie suppose sure tell ther there's thing Thorncliff thought tion tone uncle voice weel wish woman word young
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Seite 76 - Youth is nimble, age is lame ; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee...
Seite 117 - The herring loves the merry moon-light, The mackerel loves the wind, But the oyster loves the dredging sang, For they come of a gentle kind.
Seite 27 - The coffin, covered with a pall, and supported upon handspikes by the nearest relatives, now only waited the father to support the head, as is customary. Two or three of these privileged persons spoke to him, but he only answered by shaking his hand and his head in token of refusal. With better intention than judgment, the friends, who considered this as an act of duty on the part of the living, and of decency towards the deceased, would have proceeded to enforce their request, had not...
Seite 21 - But the figure of the old grandmother was the most remarkable of the sorrowing group. Seated on her accustomed chair, with her usual air of apathy, and want of interest in what surrounded her, she seemed every now and then mechanically to resume the motion of twirling her spindle ; then to look towards her bosom for the distaff, although both had been laid aside.
Seite 22 - Thus she sat among the funeral assembly like a connecting link between the surviving mourners and the dead corpse which they bewailed — a being in whom the light of existence was already obscured by the encroaching shadows of death. When Oldbuck entered this house of mourning, he was received by a general and silent inclination of the head, and, according to the fashion of Scotland on such occasions, wine and spirits and bread were offered round to the guests. Elspeth, as these refreshments were...
Seite 251 - condemned to wear out their lives in confinement, which they try to beguile by the exercise of accomplishments, which would have adorned society, had they been left at large.