Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's ed. with additional plates and letterpress1885 |
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... whole being focussed on the notes , the thumb and two forefingers of the left hand planted in the hollows of his cheeks , his legs crossed and his body bent , he is heedless of all that is passing around him . The female members of the ...
... whole being focussed on the notes , the thumb and two forefingers of the left hand planted in the hollows of his cheeks , his legs crossed and his body bent , he is heedless of all that is passing around him . The female members of the ...
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... whole life proved that his disposition was naturally replete with sportive imagination , broad humour , and innocent mirth , he was at all times filled with the warmest piety , and with the utmost veneration for that faith in which he ...
... whole life proved that his disposition was naturally replete with sportive imagination , broad humour , and innocent mirth , he was at all times filled with the warmest piety , and with the utmost veneration for that faith in which he ...
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... whole life . Observing that his bias was thus so unequivocally manifested , his father was desirous to give it every encouragement ; and , accordingly , when Geikie was about the age of fourteen , he was sent to study under Mr Patrick ...
... whole life . Observing that his bias was thus so unequivocally manifested , his father was desirous to give it every encouragement ; and , accordingly , when Geikie was about the age of fourteen , he was sent to study under Mr Patrick ...
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... whole vicinity of Edinburgh , from which he did not , at one time or other , make an extensive panoramic view of the city and its surrounding country , and that with a degree of accuracy and minuteness which few could have equalled . He ...
... whole vicinity of Edinburgh , from which he did not , at one time or other , make an extensive panoramic view of the city and its surrounding country , and that with a degree of accuracy and minuteness which few could have equalled . He ...
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... whole room ; and as he always appeared to have the greatest possible enjoyment in his own exertions in this way , so they were always received with the kindliest feeling towards him on the part of his fellow - artists . Geikie was warm ...
... whole room ; and as he always appeared to have the greatest possible enjoyment in his own exertions in this way , so they were always received with the kindliest feeling towards him on the part of his fellow - artists . Geikie was warm ...
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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