The Living Age, Volume 269E. Littell & Company, 1911 |
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... David and Jeanie Deans than he is to our mind at least - in the somewhat con- ventional figures of his tales of chiv- alry who , while placed in the twelfth century , converse in quasi - Elizabethan English . We have only to mention his ...
... David and Jeanie Deans than he is to our mind at least - in the somewhat con- ventional figures of his tales of chiv- alry who , while placed in the twelfth century , converse in quasi - Elizabethan English . We have only to mention his ...
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... David spent a wakeful night . Even in the misery of captivity , in the dread of pursuit , in his narrow , storm - tossed berth at sea , he had managed to snatch spells of broken slumber ; but the first night spent under Miss ...
... David spent a wakeful night . Even in the misery of captivity , in the dread of pursuit , in his narrow , storm - tossed berth at sea , he had managed to snatch spells of broken slumber ; but the first night spent under Miss ...
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... David found some difficulty in nerving him- self to proceed . " I am afraid there'll only be the one Saturday , Miss Strickland , I find this here place is too far from Strange's . It ' ud take me half my time very near gettin ' back ...
... David found some difficulty in nerving him- self to proceed . " I am afraid there'll only be the one Saturday , Miss Strickland , I find this here place is too far from Strange's . It ' ud take me half my time very near gettin ' back ...
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... David's with a look of reproach which he could scarcely have withstood even if the older woman's appeal had not al- ready pierced him to the heart . " There , let's say nothin ' more about it , " he cried hastily . " I'll make shift to ...
... David's with a look of reproach which he could scarcely have withstood even if the older woman's appeal had not al- ready pierced him to the heart . " There , let's say nothin ' more about it , " he cried hastily . " I'll make shift to ...
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... David gave a little start of an- noyed surprise , and spoke roughly . " Did your husband often fill a pail for ' ee at thik well ? " " No , " said Martha shortly . " Then I don't see what need ye have to be spyin ' arter me , " he ...
... David gave a little start of an- noyed surprise , and spoke roughly . " Did your husband often fill a pail for ' ee at thik well ? " " No , " said Martha shortly . " Then I don't see what need ye have to be spyin ' arter me , " he ...
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Page 629 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 80 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 658 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 658 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 699 - The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
Page 651 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 699 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 698 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 288 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.