David Kennedy: The Scottish SingerA. Gardner, 1887 - 379 pàgines |
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Pàgina 193 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Pàgina 356 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.
Pàgina 25 - My bird, my bonnie, bonnie bird, Is that a sang ye borrow; Or is't some words ye've learnt by heart, Or a lilt o' dool an' sorrow ?" " Oh ! no, no, no," the wee bird sang, " I've flown sin' mornin
Pàgina 25 - But sic a day o' wind and rain ! Oh ! wae's me for Prince Charlie ! " " On hills that are by right his ain, He roams a lonely stranger ; On ilka hand he's press'd by want, On ilka side by danger. Yestreen I met him in a glen, My heart near bursted fairly, For sadly changed indeed was he, Oh ! wae's me for Prince Charlie ! Dark night...
Pàgina 25 - the wee bird sang, " I've flown sin morning early ; But sic a day o' wind and rain ! — Oh ! wae's me for Prince Charlie ! " On hills that are by right his ain, He roams a lonely stranger ; On ilka hand he 's press'd by want, On ilka side by danger.
Pàgina 89 - He put on his best Sabbath-day hat and issued forth into the street. Instantly at all the windows commanding a view of the street there were female noses flattened against the panes. Voices might be heard crying, " Mither! mither! mither! Come here! come here! Look! look! look! There's Saunders McGlashan wi' his beard aff, and his Sabbath-day claes on in the middle of the week!
Pàgina 16 - I'll tell ye the whole story — if yc'll promise to tell me what your man said to you when he socht you ; but ye mauna repeat it, mind ye, to ony other body. " John and me had gane thegither for five year. It's a lang time, and I began to weary on John — a woman does na like to hing on ower lang, ye ken — I was beginnin' to be feared that if he didna speak soon he wadna speak ava.
Pàgina 88 - Noo which o' thae six will I go to first? I think the first four can bide a wee, but the last twa — siller and love! love and siller! Eh, wadna it be grand if a person could get them baith ! but that's no allowed in the Christian dispensation. The patriarchs had mair liberty. Abraham wud just hae ta'en them baith, but I'm no Abraham. If I bring Janet Henderson to my fireside and she sits at that side darnin...
Pàgina 88 - I'm no Abraham. They say siller's the god o' the warld — I never had ony mair use for siller than to buy meat and claes, to put a penny in the plate on Sabbath, and gie a bawbee to a blind fiddler. But they say heaven's love and love's heaven, an...
Pàgina 89 - A sicht o' you's guid for sair een!" The maiden span and took side-long glances. A woman can see mair wi' the tail o' her ee, than a man can see with his two eyes wide open. "Come awa' into the fire. What's up wi' ye the day, Saunders ? ye're awfu' weel lickit up, ye are; I never saw ye lookin