 | Walter Scott - 1859 - 456 ページ
...hang, and you may begin wi' me the very first man." Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, a sort of laugh was heard in the court at the extraordinary...silence ensued. The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments. The execution... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 876 ページ
..." If the Saxon gentlemen are laughing," he said, " because a poor man, such as me, thinks my lite, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of...silence ensued. The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments. The execution... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 388 ページ
...hang, and you may begin wi' me the very first man." Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, a sort of laugh was heard in the court at the extraordinary...silence ensued. The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments. The execution... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1870 - 544 ページ
...poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vhor, it's like enough they may be very right ; but if they...silence ensued. The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments. The execution... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1890 - 356 ページ
...greeted with a laugh, this is the noble answer Evan made — " If the Saxon gentlemen are laughing because a poor man such as me thinks my life or the...heart of a Hielandman, nor the honour of a gentleman." Those writers, whose cstse we have been considering, ken neither the language nor the ideas of the... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 ページ
...hang, and you may begin wi' me the very first man.' Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, a sort of laugh was heard in the court at the extraordinary...silence ensued. The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments. The execution... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 572 ページ
...hang, and you may begin wi' me the very first man." Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, a sort of laugh was heard in the court at the extraordinary...silence ensued. The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law of high treason, with all its. horrible accompaniments. The execution... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 650 ページ
...my word, and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a Ilielandraan, nor the honour of a gentleman." There was no further...silence ensued. The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments. The execution... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1879 - 228 ページ
...the midst of a story true to life. " If," said Evan Maccombich, " the Saxon gentlemen are laughing because a poor man such as me thinks my life, or the...heart of a Hielandman nor the honour of a gentleman." That is sublime. And, again, when Balfour of Burley slaughters Bothwell, the death scene is sublime.... | |
 | 1880 - 556 ページ
...the midst of a story true to life. " If," said Evan Maccombich, ' ' the Saxon gentlemen are laughing because a poor man such as me thinks my life, or the...heart of a Hielandman nor the honour of a gentleman." That is sublime. And, again when Balfour of Burley slaughters Bothwell, the death scene is sublime.... | |
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Saxon gentlemen are laughing," he said, "because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they may be very right ; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my... 
