Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk, Volume 2booksellers, 1822 - 336 pagina's |
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Pagina 60 - Sandyford said, in a gay manner, which, how-ever, became gradually serious and elevated, " What a pity it is that the mythology of the poets is not true ! I should otherwise this night have raised an altar to Mercury, and instituted some social festival in honour of him, as Andrew Wylie. My friend, you have taught me one thing; — when we do an act of kindness, it is the benevolence of Heaven directing us to achieve some good for ourselves. The partiality that I from the first felt for you, and...
Pagina 122 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Pagina 97 - The humour of this sally tickled our hero as well as the author of it, and they both laughed themselves •into greater intimacy. - " Well but sir," said Andrew, " as I'm only a stranger here, I would like to ask you a question or two about the King, just as to what sort of a man he really is ; for we can place no sort of dependence on newspapers or history books, in matters anent rulers and men of government.
Pagina 223 - ... sunk down on his knees, and continued in that posture till the grave was filled, the earth trodden in, and the turf laid for ever. CHAPTER XXXV. THE CONCLUSION. IT is, in our opinion, a more awful thing to be born than to die; but without descanting upon the question, it cannot be doubted that it is easier to write the first than the last chapter of a book. Every one of our readers must have seen, that the Laird's death, though it no doubt delayed, yet it was not an event calculated to subtract...
Pagina 96 - King," and he stepped alertly forward. But before he had advanced many paces, the old gentleman turned round, and seeing a stranger, stopped ; and looking at him for two or three seconds, said to himself, loud enough, however, to be heard, " Strange man — don't know him — don't know him ;" and then he paused till our hero had come up. " Gude day, sir," said Wylie as he approached ; " ye're early a-fit on the Sabbath morning ; but I'm thinking his Majesty, honest man, sets you a' here an example...
Pagina 96 - ... he saw, close before him, a stout and tall elderly man, in a plain blue coat, with scarlet cuffs and collar, which at first he took for a livery. There was something, however, in the air of the wearer, which convinced him that he could not be a servant; and an ivory-headed cane, virled with gold...
Pagina 97 - That, I believe, we a' in general think ; even the blacknebs never dispute his honesty, though they undervalue his talents. But what I wish to know and understand is...
Pagina 226 - ... a most full account of all manner of particularities anent the decay of the ancient families of the West Country...
Pagina 95 - Park is so extremely pleasing, especially when seen by moonlight, as amply to deserve the encomiums passed on it by a celebrated writer of the present day, who terms it " a view which every one who has the slightest taste. for the picturesque, ought neither to go abroad nor to die without seeing.