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Alfred Tennyson amongst Andrewes Auld Auld Lang Syne aunt Beatoun beautiful beneath calm Clarkson clergyman Colonel Musgrave comfort companion Cornal countenance cousin curricle dark daugh daughter dear death door drawing-room ejaculated engagement exclaimed eyes fancy father feel felt frae gazing gentleman Gilsland Spa girl glance Goodlad Gra-ham Haltwhistle hand happy Hardinge heard heart Hetta hope hour Killpatrick Lady Ruthven Laird late letter Lewis Græme look ma'am Macdonald Maister Mary Charlton Mary's maun Mercer mind Miss Milsom Miss Ruthven mother Musgrave's never niece night old lady once party pause Philip Selby poor Puseyite Sarar Scotch Scotland seemed Seringapatam Sir Patrick Ruthven sister smile sofa solitary sorbed sorrow talk tears tell Thammas thing thought tion tone voice walk Walter Musgrave Wansted Hall whist words young ladies youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 141 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Pagina 116 - ... we give thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those thy servants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labours.
Pagina 26 - Is it well to wish thee happy? — having known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine!
Pagina 70 - Tis a purer life than thine ; a lip to drain thy trouble dry. Baby lips will laugh me down: my latest rival brings thee rest. Baby fingers, waxen touches, press me from the mother's breast.
Pagina 70 - Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widow'd marriage-pillows, to the tears that thou wilt weep. Thou shalt hear the 'Never, never...
Pagina 45 - ... same. Yet was I calm : I knew the time My breast would thrill before thy look ; But now to tremble were a crime — We met, — and not a nerve was shook. I saw thee gaze upon my face, Yet meet with no confusion there : One only feeling couldst thou trace ; The sullen calmness of despair. Away ! away ! my early dream Remembrance never must awake : Oh ! where is Lethe's fabled stream ? My foolish heart be still, or break.
Pagina 248 - When Masons' mystic word an' grip, In storms an' tempests raise you up, Some cock or cat your rage maun stop, Or, strange to tell ! The youngest Brother ye wad whip Aff straught to hell. Lang syne, in Eden's bonie yard, When youthfu' lovers first were pair'd, An...
Pagina 115 - And hear the fourfold river as it murmurs by. They hear it sweep In distance down the dark and savage vale ; But they at rocky bed, or current deep, Shall never more grow pale ; They hear, and meekly muse, as fain to know How long untired, unspent, that giant stream shall flow.
Pagina 115 - They are at rest ! WE may not stir the heaven of their repose By rude invoking voice, or prayer addrest In waywardness to those Who in the mountain grots of Eden lie.