Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 29W. Blackwood & Sons, 1831 |
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... face so suddenly changeful in its expression from what a stranger might have thought habitual gravity , into what his friends knew to be native there - glee irrepressible and irresistible - the very madness of mirth , James , in which ...
... face so suddenly changeful in its expression from what a stranger might have thought habitual gravity , into what his friends knew to be native there - glee irrepressible and irresistible - the very madness of mirth , James , in which ...
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... face to bear - paw ! Hyperion to a Satyr . NORTH . SHEPHERD . Say Satyr to Hyperion , sir . Mine's anatameezed - and ... faces o ' late , like sae mony blashy shoors o ' sleet ? But Stoddart has genius . NORTH . He has . Let us speak now ...
... face to bear - paw ! Hyperion to a Satyr . NORTH . SHEPHERD . Say Satyr to Hyperion , sir . Mine's anatameezed - and ... faces o ' late , like sae mony blashy shoors o ' sleet ? But Stoddart has genius . NORTH . He has . Let us speak now ...
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... face o ' a patient in the measles . Eh ? NORTH . The words are Mr Moore's . My memory , James , is far from being tena- cious , yet sentences of extreme absurdity will stick to it- SHEPHERD . Like plaguy burrs to the tails o ' a body's ...
... face o ' a patient in the measles . Eh ? NORTH . The words are Mr Moore's . My memory , James , is far from being tena- cious , yet sentences of extreme absurdity will stick to it- SHEPHERD . Like plaguy burrs to the tails o ' a body's ...
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... face . Yet ma heart's a ' on a low - for as sure as God is in heaven , and that he has gi'en us his word on earth , that Picture is a Picture of the Truth , and Burns , in drawing it , saw , felt , and thocht through that real medium ...
... face . Yet ma heart's a ' on a low - for as sure as God is in heaven , and that he has gi'en us his word on earth , that Picture is a Picture of the Truth , and Burns , in drawing it , saw , felt , and thocht through that real medium ...
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... face that somehoo or ither in verra auld folk carries ane's thochts at ance to their coffin and their grave - as anxious about him as if the breathins o ' genie had never visited the Shepherd on the hill , and I had been only a mere ...
... face that somehoo or ither in verra auld folk carries ane's thochts at ance to their coffin and their grave - as anxious about him as if the breathins o ' genie had never visited the Shepherd on the hill , and I had been only a mere ...
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Page 445 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
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Page 183 - If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve : and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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Page 302 - At the dead hour of night was heard the cry Of one in jeopardy. I rose, and ran To where the circling eddy of a pool Beneath the ford, us'd oft to bring within My reach whatever floating thing the stream Had caught.