The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.]Myles Macphail, 1845 - 247 pagini |
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Pagina 13
... sleeping on an open Bible at the sunny pane , and the far- off hum of the Village children , with the occasional chirp of a sparrow from the thatch , not a sound disturbed the still house , till the next heavy sigh of the mourner was ...
... sleeping on an open Bible at the sunny pane , and the far- off hum of the Village children , with the occasional chirp of a sparrow from the thatch , not a sound disturbed the still house , till the next heavy sigh of the mourner was ...
Pagina 36
... sleep , are all associated in that lofty , direct , and quiet flight . And then , how delicious the idlesse , as twilight darkens , of balancing our poker ; and watching faces in the fire ; and listening to the intermittent flapping of ...
... sleep , are all associated in that lofty , direct , and quiet flight . And then , how delicious the idlesse , as twilight darkens , of balancing our poker ; and watching faces in the fire ; and listening to the intermittent flapping of ...
Pagina 52
... sleep ; " while around and over every vivid embodiment of human passion and feeling is cast the very prodigality of Nature's scenery , lovely or desolate , as the setting of the human picture , by this frank and ungrudging Genius . The ...
... sleep ; " while around and over every vivid embodiment of human passion and feeling is cast the very prodigality of Nature's scenery , lovely or desolate , as the setting of the human picture , by this frank and ungrudging Genius . The ...
Pagina 73
... sleeping pool ; and herds of cattle sauntering with glitter- ing horns through the far - in sunny glades of the old bir- chen wood , with its white thwarting stems ; and antlers peeping from the sylvan puzzle ; and homeless gipsies in ...
... sleeping pool ; and herds of cattle sauntering with glitter- ing horns through the far - in sunny glades of the old bir- chen wood , with its white thwarting stems ; and antlers peeping from the sylvan puzzle ; and homeless gipsies in ...
Pagina 75
... sleep- ing in the sun beside them ; their tame jackdaw standing on one leg , a snipped and serrated collar of scarlet cloth round his neck , his head set a - cock , and the film drawn over one eye , half in listlessness , and half in ...
... sleep- ing in the sun beside them ; their tame jackdaw standing on one leg , a snipped and serrated collar of scarlet cloth round his neck , his head set a - cock , and the film drawn over one eye , half in listlessness , and half in ...
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Pagina 80 - And this is in the night. — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Pagina 47 - Fraught with a transient, frozen shower, If a cloud should haply lower, Sailing o'er the landscape dark, Mute on a sudden is the lark ; But when gleams the sun again O'er the pearl-besprinkled plain. And from behind his watery veil Looks through the thin descending hail ; She mounts, and, lessening to the sight, Salutes the blithe return of light, And high her tuneful track pursues Mid the dim rainbow's scatter'd hues.
Pagina 171 - Nature seemed In silent contemplation to adore Its Maker. Now and then the aged leaf Fell from its fellows, rustling to the ground, And as it fell bade man think on his end.
Pagina 60 - Countrymen, My heart doth joy that yet, in all my life, I found no man but he was true to me. I shall have glory by this losing day, More than Octavius and Mark Antony By this vile conquest shall attain unto. So fare you well at once; for Brutus...
Pagina 214 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy GOD chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy GOD, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Pagina 39 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Pagina 57 - Amphytrion to the Stage, I heard him give it his first Reading to the Actors, in which, though it is true he deliver'd the plain Sense of every Period, yet the whole was in so cold, so flat, and unaffecting a manner, that I am afraid of not being believ'd when I affirm it.
Pagina 214 - And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war^/zV for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains...