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 25 - An' slept beneath a bush o' broom — Oh, wae's me for Prince Charlie!" But now the bird saw some red coats, An' he shook his wings wi' anger, "Oh, this is no' a land for me; I'll tarry here nae langer.
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 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 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 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 90 - I'm determined to hae a wife. You are the first that I have spoken till. I houp there's nae offense, Janet. I meant nae offense. Eh! oh! very well; if that's the way o't, it canna be helped ;" and, slowly unfolding the paper which he had taken from his waistcoat pocket, " I have several other women's names markit down here tae ca
Pàgina 25 - WEE bird came to our ha' door ; He warbled sweet and clearly ; And aye the o'ercome o" his sang Was " Wae's me for Prince Charlie !
Pàgina 90 - If my neebors come tae ken that I've ta'en you at the very first offer they'll point the finger of scorn at me, and say ahint my back as lang as I live, ' That woman was deein' for a man ; ' so ye maun come here every day for the next month, and come in daylicht, so that they'll a