Seeing England with Uncle John

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Century Company, 1908 - 492 ページ
 

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434 ページ - Let them bestow on every airth* a limb, Then open all my veins, — that I may swim To thee, my Maker, in that crimson lake — Then place my parboiled head upon a stake ; Scatter my ashes— strew them in the air; — Lord! since thou knowest where all these atoms are, I'm hopeful thou'lt recover once my dust, And confident thou'lt raise me with the just.
55 ページ - Such dusky grandeur clothed the height Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
438 ページ - The Percy out of Northumberland And a vow to God made he, That he would hunt in the mountains Of Cheviot within days three, In the maugre of doughty Douglas And all that ever with him be.
67 ページ - Stirling (1452; p. 485), and strengthens the royal authority. He is killed by the bursting of a gun at the siege of Roxburgh (p. 46G). 1460-1488. James III. attempts to rule through favourites, who are put to death by Angus 'Bell the Oat
45 ページ - I saw Jenny Surgeoner of late, and she complains bitterly against you. You are acting very wrong, my friend; her happiness or misery is bound up in your affection or unkindness. Poor girl! she told me with tears in her eyes that she had been at great pains since she went to Paisley, learning to write better; just on purpose to be able to correspond with you; and had promised herself great pleasure in your letters. Richmond, I know you to be a man of honour, but this conduct of yours to a poor girl...
36 ページ - Elizabeth sent her two torn shifts, two pieces of black velvet, and two pair of shoes.
111 ページ - Blanket," or banner of the trades. The Albany Aisle is in the north-west corner, and is said to have been erected by the Duke of Albany in expiation of the murder of his nephew, the Duke of Rothesay, in 1402.
208 ページ - Ve said it and just to show you that I mean what I say I will not go to Durham.
410 ページ - Uncle, he said that he always knew he would be all right in a day or two, but he thought with Mrs.
398 ページ - ... in a secret room the location of which was known only to one of his servants.

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