Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's ed. with additional plates and letterpress1885 |
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... worthy of the other , who has already appeared in this volume , we should be inclined to give this plate another title than that with which it is labelled . If not the musical souter himself it is his twin brother . The hour for the ...
... worthy of the other , who has already appeared in this volume , we should be inclined to give this plate another title than that with which it is labelled . If not the musical souter himself it is his twin brother . The hour for the ...
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... worthy of having their name and fame revived here . One of the most interesting associations connected with Libberton Wynd has reference to Burns - Robert Burns ; and what associations can be dearer to Scotsmen than those relating to ...
... worthy of having their name and fame revived here . One of the most interesting associations connected with Libberton Wynd has reference to Burns - Robert Burns ; and what associations can be dearer to Scotsmen than those relating to ...
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... worthy of his intellect . A trifling bounty was offered to any young man who would ex- change from the Fencibles into a corps of horse artillery then forming , and which was to be available for service in any part of the United Kingdom ...
... worthy of his intellect . A trifling bounty was offered to any young man who would ex- change from the Fencibles into a corps of horse artillery then forming , and which was to be available for service in any part of the United Kingdom ...
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... worthy of mentioning here , though perhaps not referring to the precise portion of the street delineated in the etching . It was in the Grassmarket that the famous Captain John Porteous , head of the town - guard of Edinburgh , was ...
... worthy of mentioning here , though perhaps not referring to the precise portion of the street delineated in the etching . It was in the Grassmarket that the famous Captain John Porteous , head of the town - guard of Edinburgh , was ...
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... worthy man : a tailor by trade , very likely , and in respectable circumstances . We shouldn't indeed wonder if he is deacon of the corporation . He is taking his forenoon's half - hour of the papers , a treat which he would not forego ...
... worthy man : a tailor by trade , very likely , and in respectable circumstances . We shouldn't indeed wonder if he is deacon of the corporation . He is taking his forenoon's half - hour of the papers , a treat which he would not forego ...
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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
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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