The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Band 2Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson Carter & Pratt, 1897 |
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Seite 15 - Thou know'st it well, — nor fen, nor sedge, Pollute the pure lake's crystal edge; Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink At once upon the level brink; And just a trace of silver sand Marks where the water meets the land.
Seite 73 - I watch'd his body night and day ; No living creature came that way. I took his body on my back, And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat ; I digg'da grave, and laid him in, And happ'd him with the sod sae green. But think na ye my heart was sair, When I laid the moul...
Seite 5 - Scott looked round, and I rather think there was a blush as well as a smile upon his face, when he perceived a little black pig frisking about his pony, and evidently a self-elected addition to the party of the day. He tried to look stern, and cracked his whip at the creature, but was in a moment obliged to join in the general cheers. Poor piggy soon found a strap round...
Seite 219 - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Seite 218 - And beef and mutton in a' plentie; But never a Scots wyfe could have said That e'er I skaith'd her a puir flee. 22. 'To seik het water beneith cauld ice, Surely it is a greit folie — I have asked grace at a graceless face, But there is nane for my men and me!
Seite 184 - Ye have lost a child — nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ ; she is not sent away, but only sent before ; like unto a star, which, going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere ; ye see her not, yet she doth shine in another country.
Seite 157 - And flourished broad, Blackandro's oak, The aged Harper's soul awoke ! Then would he sing achievements high, And circumstance of chivalry, Till the rapt traveller would stay, Forgetful of the closing...
Seite 52 - The last time I saw his loved and honoured face was at the little inn on my own farm in the Autumn of 1830. He sent me word that he was to pass on such a day on his way from...
Seite 185 - Gainst storm, and wind, and tide ; Now, like a weary traveller That leaneth on his guide, Amid the shades of evening, While sinks life's lingering sand, I hail the glory dawning From Immanuel's land.
Seite 157 - Fair scenes for childhood's opening bloom, For sportive youth to stray in ; For manhood to enjoy his strength; And age to wear away in...