Edith of Glammis, by Cuthbert Clutterbuck of Kennaquhair |
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... seen before , nor re- gard me otherwise than as an old friend . In assuming a new firm , I am but acting with a due regard to mine own safety ; and although , dear Public , to use the language of the stage , I may be damned by you , I ...
... seen before , nor re- gard me otherwise than as an old friend . In assuming a new firm , I am but acting with a due regard to mine own safety ; and although , dear Public , to use the language of the stage , I may be damned by you , I ...
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... seen the devil . This was enough to condemn him in the eyes of his enlightened jury ; but , for the infor- mation of posterity , or perhaps to serve as a landmark to prevent others from being wrecked on the same unhappy coast , some ...
... seen the devil . This was enough to condemn him in the eyes of his enlightened jury ; but , for the infor- mation of posterity , or perhaps to serve as a landmark to prevent others from being wrecked on the same unhappy coast , some ...
Page 84
... seen to move on the wide chase around , and the huge gnarled oaks , which stretched their wild branches in every direction , seemed to mourn in majestic loneliness over their dreary and deserted situation . - Towards the eastern ...
... seen to move on the wide chase around , and the huge gnarled oaks , which stretched their wild branches in every direction , seemed to mourn in majestic loneliness over their dreary and deserted situation . - Towards the eastern ...
Page 92
... castle hath been de- serted . Strange sights are seen ; strange sounds heard to issue from it in the soli- tary hours of night ; but no footstep ever passes the threshold ; the court - yard is overgrown 92 EDITH OF GLAMMIS .
... castle hath been de- serted . Strange sights are seen ; strange sounds heard to issue from it in the soli- tary hours of night ; but no footstep ever passes the threshold ; the court - yard is overgrown 92 EDITH OF GLAMMIS .
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... seen into the state of our inward parts ; and if he saw them not , he might have heard them , for our hungry bellies barked for food ' till our unfortunate carcases rattled in our cuirasses like rotten kernels in a wholesome shell ...
... seen into the state of our inward parts ; and if he saw them not , he might have heard them , for our hungry bellies barked for food ' till our unfortunate carcases rattled in our cuirasses like rotten kernels in a wholesome shell ...
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Popular passages
Page 12 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 86 - A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood ¡hall be upon them.
Page 243 - Away, away, my steed and I, Upon the pinions of the wind, All human dwellings left behind ; We sped like meteors through the sky...
Page 25 - Now stench and blackness yawn like death : oh plead With famine or wind-walking pestilence, Blind lightning or the deaf sea ; — not with man ! Cruel, cold, formal man ; righteous in words, In deeds a Cain ! No, mother, we must die : Since such is the reward of innocent lives, Such the alleviation of worst wrongs.
Page 260 - STATELY stept he east the wa', And stately stept he west, Full seventy years he now had seen, Wi' scarce seven years of rest. He liv'd when Britons breach of faith Wrought Scotland mickle wae : And ay his sword tauld to their cost, He was their deadlye fae.
Page 288 - While the tinker did dine, he had plenty of wine, Rich canary, with sherry and tent superfine. Like a right honest soul, faith, he took off his bowl, Till at last he began for to tumble and roul From his chair to the floor, where he sleeping did snore, Being seven times drunker than ever before.
Page 253 - Gallant captain show some pity To a lady in distress ; Leave me not within this city, For to die in heaviness. Thou hast set this present day my body free, But my heart in prison still remains with thee.' ' How shouldst thou, fair lady, love me, Whom thou know'st thy country's foe? Thy fair words make me suspect thee: Serpents lie where flowers grow.
Page 184 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Page 289 - From his chair to the floor, where he sleeping did snore, Being seven times drunker than ever before. Then the duke did ordain, they should strip him amain, And restore him his old leather garments again...
Page 279 - O wow ! quo' he, were I as free As first when I saw this countrie, How blythe and merry wad I be ! And I wad never think lang.