Chronicles of the Canongate: Saint Valentine's day. 2d series

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S.H. Parker, 1845
 

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Strana 175 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Strana 242 - The details are but imperfectly known to me — but the certainty is, that my unhappy nephew was found dead in his apartment last night from sudden illness — as I have heard.
Strana 102 - If there is one thing I hate more than another, it is such a sneaking varlet as that Dwining !" " Have a care he does not hear you say so,
Strana 180 - In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire « With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages long ago betid ; And ere thou bid good-night, to quit their grief Tell thou the lamentable tale of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds.
Strana 18 - I. had been the first excursion which I was permitted to make on a pony of my own, I also experienced the glow of independence, mingled with that degree of anxiety which the most conceited boy feels when he is first abandoned to his own undirected counsels.

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