 | 1818 - 574 oldal
...late may it be yours !) O, my Leddy, then it is na' what we have dune for ourselves but what we have dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly....hang the haill Porteous mob at the tail of ae tow.' " The result has been already mentioned : — Euphemia Deaiu obtained a pardon and was set at liberty... | |
 | 1818 - 498 oldal
...comes to high and low — lang and late may it be yours — 0, my Lcddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that...to spare the puir thing's life will be sweeter in (lint hour, come when it may, than if a word of your mouth could hang thehaill Porteous mob at the... | |
 | 1824 - 394 oldal
...and low — lang and late may it be yours — O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursels, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on...than if a word of your mouth could hang the haill JPorteus mob at the tail of ae tow." " This is eloquence" exclaimed her Majesty. The Queen, as is well... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1832 - 360 oldal
...the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low — Oh, my leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly. HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. THE assertion that a tale is founded on fact is a pious fraud of story-tellers,... | |
 | 1835 - 102 oldal
...high and low — O, my Leddy, then, it is not what we have done for ourselves, but what we have done for others, that we think on maist pleasantly; and...hang the haill Porteous mob at the tail of ae tow." It is no new observation that Shakspeare is often thus homely and natural in his stateliest moods of... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 298 oldal
...the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low—Oh, my leddy, then it is'na what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly." HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. THE assertion that a tale is founded on fact, is a pious fraud of story tellers,... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 oldal
...low — long and late may it be yours ; — O, my leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursels, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on...it may, than if a word of your mouth could hang the hail Porteus mob at the tail of ae tow." Tear followed tear down Jeanie's cheeks, as, her features... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1845 - 352 oldal
...the body, and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly." There is, then, at last, on the part of the government of Massachusetts, a recognition of the expediency... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 724 oldal
...when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low, then it is na what we hae dune for oursels, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly." We are all in search of happiness — it is " our waking thought by day, our dream by night" — and... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 694 oldal
...when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low, then it is na what we hae dune for oursels, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly." We are all in search of happiness—it is " our waking thought by day, our dream by night"—and yet,... | |
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... and fighting our ain battles. But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship — and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low — lang and late may it be yours — O, my Leddy,... 
