 | Walter Scott - 1908 - 456 ページ
...fairer spread up — not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid— and make them kind to the poor, and...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." 1 Delicacies. So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 474 ページ
...bairns are hinging at our weary backs; look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up. Ride your ways, for these are the last words ye'll ever...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." She broke the sapling she held and flung it into the road, and strode away after the caravan; and Ellangowan... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 ページ
...fairer spread up ; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor and...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." l The second passage is one of description : In the inside of the cottage was a scene which our \Vilkie... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1910 - 636 ページ
...fairer spread up ; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and...hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise j that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." ' So saying, she broke the sapling she held... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1910 - 644 ページ
...fairer spread up ; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and...; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrihes speak, and this is the last reise f that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan."... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 ページ
...a most careful recent scrutiny I have found little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better...ever cut | in the bonny | woods | of Ellangowan." I have bracketed and italicised one clause because it is of the nature of a parenthetic aside, descending... | |
 | Francis Henry Pritchard - 1923 - 214 ページ
...fairer spread up— not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. Here everyday, commonplace speech is exalted into rhetoric — the borderland between prose and verse.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 676 ページ
...fairer spread up; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that 's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and...ride e'en your ways; for these are the last words ye 'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods... | |
 | Francis Henry Pritchard - 1924 - 258 ページ
...spread up — not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born • — God forbid- — and make them kind to the poor, and...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. Here everyday, commonplace speech is exalted into rhetoric — the borderland between prose and verse.... | |
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... bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! — Ride your ways, Ellangowan, — Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry,... 
