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... Lord Vincovincentem . " " Vincovincentem ? -Is he a lord of state , or a lord of seat ? " inquired Mrs. Howden . It may be necessary to mention , that Mr. Bartoline Saddletree kept an excellent and highly - esteemed shop for harness ...
... Lord Vincovincentem . " " Vincovincentem ? -Is he a lord of state , or a lord of seat ? " inquired Mrs. Howden . It may be necessary to mention , that Mr. Bartoline Saddletree kept an excellent and highly - esteemed shop for harness ...
Pagina 108
... Lord Stair , and Dame Margaret Ross , had engaged herself without the know- tedge of her parents to the Lord Rutherford , who was not ac- ceptable to them either on account of his political principles , or his want of fortune . The ...
... Lord Stair , and Dame Margaret Ross , had engaged herself without the know- tedge of her parents to the Lord Rutherford , who was not ac- ceptable to them either on account of his political principles , or his want of fortune . The ...
Pagina 109
... Lord Stair and his family was , as already noticed , written by Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw , a rival of Lord Stair for the situation of President of the Court of Session ; a person much inferior to that great lawyer in talents ...
... Lord Stair and his family was , as already noticed , written by Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw , a rival of Lord Stair for the situation of President of the Court of Session ; a person much inferior to that great lawyer in talents ...
Pagina 114
... Lord Ravenswood , the heir of this ruined family , was far from bending his mind to his new condition of life . In the civil war of 1689 , he had espoused the sinking side , and although he had escaped without the forfeiture of life or ...
... Lord Ravenswood , the heir of this ruined family , was far from bending his mind to his new condition of life . In the civil war of 1689 , he had espoused the sinking side , and although he had escaped without the forfeiture of life or ...
Pagina 115
... Lord Ravenswood had spent the last and troubled years of his life , opened , that his mortal remains might pass forward to an abode yet more dreary and lonely . The pomp of attendance , to which the deceased had , in his latter years ...
... Lord Ravenswood had spent the last and troubled years of his life , opened , that his mortal remains might pass forward to an abode yet more dreary and lonely . The pomp of attendance , to which the deceased had , in his latter years ...
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Pagina 61 - 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, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Pagina 276 - Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swine-herd. "I am very glad every fool knows that too...
Pagina 275 - ... delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions of turf to which they made their way. A considerable open space, in the midst of this glade, seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical...
Pagina 274 - Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude.