The Novels and Poems of Sir Walter Scott: St. Ronan's well

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Estes, 1894
 

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232 ページ - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
236 ページ - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
xii ページ - Na, na, sir — take my word for it, you are always best, like Helen MacGregor, when your foot is on your native heath ; and I have often thought that if you were to write a novel, and lay the scene here in the very year you were writing it, you would exceed yourself." — " Hame's hame," quoth Scott, smiling,
246 ページ - His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy.
91 ページ - I do not know that I have been either one or the other," answered Lady Binks ; " one thing I certainly am not — I am not capable of understanding your ladyship's wit and learning." "Poor soul," whispered Lady Penelope to Tyrrel ; " we know what we are, we know not what we may be.

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