The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, 第 22 巻Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson Carter & Pratt, 1917 |
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109 ページ - Where, being but young, I framed to the harp Many an English ditty, lovely well, And gave the tongue a helpful ornament, A virtue that was never seen in you. Hot. Marry, and I'm glad of it with all my heart : I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers...
114 ページ - Front, flank, and rear the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like...
191 ページ - Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho...
130 ページ - At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye.
130 ページ - I sat for some time looking around me with amazement and terror. Whichsoever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and by men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once upon my recollection, and, I confess, my spirits began to fail me.
124 ページ - All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
269 ページ - Boys, let's get away from this. If I ever get a chance to hit this thing, I'll hit it hard.
130 ページ - All these circumstances crowded at once on my recollection ; and I confess that my spirits began to fail me. I considered my fate as certain, and that I had no alternative, but to lie down and perish.
17 ページ - Ye're a vera clever chiel', man, but ye wad be nane the waur o' a hanging.' " It was also during this visit to London that Scott sat to Mr (now Sir Francis) Chantrey for that bust which alone preserves for posterity the cast of expression most fondly remembered by all who ever mingled in his domestic circle.
24 ページ - DRUNKENNESS. JOHN ADAMS lies here, of the parish of Southwell, A Carrier who carried his can to his mouth well : He carried so much, and he carried so fast, He could carry no more — so was carried at last ; For, the liquor he drank, being too much for one, He could not carry off, — so he's now carri-on.