Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier].William Blackwood, 1818 |
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Adelaide affection amusement answered Mary aunt bairn ball beauty Beech Park beheld better breakfast canna carriage certainly CHAPTER charms Colonel Lennox cousin daresay daugh daughter dear death declare delight dinner Doctor dress duties exclaimed eyes fear feelings felt frae Gawffaw girl Glenfern going to church hand happiness head hear heard heart Highland hope Lady Emily Lady Ju Lady Juliana Lady Maclaughlan Ladyship Laird leettle liana look Lord Courtland Lord Lindore low country Macshake Mary found Mary's maun ment mind Miss Douglas Miss Grizzy Miss Jacky Miss Nicky mother mournful nature ness never night pleasure Pon my honour poor Redgill replied rience Rose Hall Scotland seemed shew sigh sister smile sorrow soul sude sure tears tell tender ther there's thing thought tion voice vulgar weel woman ye're young
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Seite 25 - They say, miracles are past; and we -have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Seite 209 - Why, all delights are vain ; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain : As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth ; while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look...
Seite 81 - Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow; Farewell to the straths and green valleys below; Farewell to the forests and wild hanging woods; Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the highlands wherever I go.
Seite 223 - Day follows night; the clouds return again After the falling of the latter rain: But to the aged blind shall ne'er return Grateful vicissitude: he still must mourn The sun, and moon, and every starry light Eclips'd to him, and lost in everlasting night.
Seite 38 - It is no diminution, but a recommendation of human nature, that, in some instances, passion gets the better of reason, and all that we can think is impotent against half what we feel.
Seite 124 - An' that great glowrin' new toon there" — pointing out of her windows — "whar I used to sit an' luck oot at bonny green parks, and see the coos milket, and the bits o...
Seite 200 - Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there will I be in the midst of them,
Seite 132 - Mr Douglas here paid her some compliments upon her appearance, which were pretty graciously received ; and added, that he was the bearer of a letter from his aunt Grizzy, which he would send along with a roebuck and brace of moor-game. " • Gin your roebuck'i nae better than your last, atweel it's no worth the sendin' : poor dry fisinless dirt, no worth the chowing; weel a wat, I begrudged my teeth on't.
Seite 125 - Douglas, who was more au fait to the prejudices of old age, and who was always amused with her bitter remarks, when they did not touch himself, encouraged her to continue the conversation by some observation on the prevailing manners.
Seite 126 - Paurents war paurents then — bairns dardna set up their gabs afore them than as they du noo. They ne'er presumed to say their heeds war their ain i' thae days — wife an' servants, reteeners an' childcr, a' trummelt i' the presence o