 A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Pàgina 78per Walter Scott - 1817 - 358 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 312 pàgines
...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. tnscrijiiion on Edinburgh TaOiooth. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 254 pàgines
...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on-Edinburgh Tolbooth. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-house,... | |
 | Geffray Minshull - 1821 - 122 pàgines
...TOUCHSTONE TRUE TO TRY A FRIEND, A GRAVE FOR ONE ALIVE. SOMETIMES A PLACE OF RIGHT, SOMETIMES A PLACE OF WRONG, SOMETIMES A PLACE OF ROGUES AND THIEVES, AND HONEST MEN AMONG. NOTICE. HE Essayes and Characters of a Prison were originally published in 1618, in a small quarto... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 514 pàgines
...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh Tolboollt. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-house,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 386 pàgines
...touchstone true to try a friendj A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong. Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves,...morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-house, was, with his two silent and surly attendants, appointed to convey him to his place... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive; Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. DCCCCLXIV. They who place themselves on that side of the world in which every thing appears in a ridiculous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 pàgines
...touchstone true to try a friend A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh Tolboolh. EABLTon the following morning, the carriagewhieh had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-house,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 376 pàgines
...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometime? a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among. Inscription on Edinburgh Tofoootk. EARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought Bertram to Hazlewood-house,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 710 pàgines
...touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves,...honest men among. INSCRIPTION ON EDINBURGH TOLBOOTH. ^•^^^'¿у; ARLY on the following morning, the carriage which had brought ®*feî Bertram to Hazlewood-House,... | |
 | 1872 - 676 pàgines
...only part of the quotation ; the rest runs thus : — " Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among." The inscription was painted on the old prison of Edinburgh, and I have seen the author's name mentioned,... | |
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