Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's ed. with additional plates and letterpress1885 |
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... side life's toil she shares , Whan youthfu ' days lie far ahint , An ' manhood's years bring manlier cares . There's mony a bonnie flower that blooms Whan Summer days are lang an ' warm , But leeze me on the buds that cheer The dreary ...
... side life's toil she shares , Whan youthfu ' days lie far ahint , An ' manhood's years bring manlier cares . There's mony a bonnie flower that blooms Whan Summer days are lang an ' warm , But leeze me on the buds that cheer The dreary ...
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... side wings where the rozet ends lay , which , in the days of boyhood , we begged or stole - generally the latter - for the purpose of tying a whip or splicing a broken fishing - rod . There is the table on which is ETCHINGS ILLUSTRATIVE ...
... side wings where the rozet ends lay , which , in the days of boyhood , we begged or stole - generally the latter - for the purpose of tying a whip or splicing a broken fishing - rod . There is the table on which is ETCHINGS ILLUSTRATIVE ...
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... side of the originals in the streets . An anecdote regarding one individual who makes a very conspicuous appearance among the characters to be found in his etchings , is worth relating , as an example of the difficulties he encountered ...
... side of the originals in the streets . An anecdote regarding one individual who makes a very conspicuous appearance among the characters to be found in his etchings , is worth relating , as an example of the difficulties he encountered ...
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... side . Their only merit , if merit it can be called , lay in the low comic humour characterizing them ; but the laugh which they excited was dearly purchased by the corruption of taste and indelicate habits of thought to which they ...
... side . Their only merit , if merit it can be called , lay in the low comic humour characterizing them ; but the laugh which they excited was dearly purchased by the corruption of taste and indelicate habits of thought to which they ...
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... side in the meantime , and maintaining an animated converse on politics , polemics , or potatoes , for on all these subjects the Scottish peasant can talk , and sometimes talk well . Such is the pair delineated in the etching . To a ...
... side in the meantime , and maintaining an animated converse on politics , polemics , or potatoes , for on all these subjects the Scottish peasant can talk , and sometimes talk well . Such is the pair delineated in the etching . To a ...
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
admirable after-not Alloway Kirk appearance artist attitude auld bairn bargain bawbee bonnet braw Brodie character countenance Cowgate creel Crummie douce dress Edinburgh face fair feeling figure fish fishwife frae Garker Geikie GEIKIE'S ETCHINGS genius Graham purchased Grassmarket gude guidman hame hand haud head heart honour human humble humour ilka interest labour laird lasses Leith Libberton Lochaber ax look mair mind mony nature neighbours never Newhaven night observed occasion ower owre Patrick Fraser Tytler peculiar picture pipe plate pleasure poet poor possession present purchase ROBERT FERGUSSON scene Scotland Scots Scottish seen Shanter shoemaker sketch smile snopt song souter stand street thou toil town unco WALTER GEIKIE wares weary weel Whan whole William Brodie worthy Wynd yaudies youth
Népszerű szakaszok
78. oldal - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs...
79. oldal - Needy knife-grinder ! whither are you going ? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast • — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches ! " Weary knife-grinder ! little think the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, ' Knives and Scissors to grind O...
79. oldal - Was it the squire, for killing of his game, or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit ? (Have you not read the " Rights of Man," by Tom Paine ?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
52. oldal - Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest, Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade. In what new region, to the just assigned, What new employments please th' unbodied mind ? A winged Virtue, through th' ethereal sky, From world to world unwearied does he fly?
63. oldal - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the...
66. oldal - For women, born to be controll'd, Stoop to the forward and the bold, Affect the haughty and the proud, The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Who first the generous steed oppress'd, Not kneeling did salute the beast, But with high courage, life, and force, Approaching, tam'd th