My lady Green Sleeves, by the author of 'Comin' thro' the rye'. |
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Page 76
... Gilly , " I say , pausing in the act of carving Anak's third helping , " he said he'd come and see us some Sunday . You girls had better let me see if he's too screwed to see ladies , before you come into the other room . " " I'll open ...
... Gilly , " I say , pausing in the act of carving Anak's third helping , " he said he'd come and see us some Sunday . You girls had better let me see if he's too screwed to see ladies , before you come into the other room . " " I'll open ...
Page 77
... Gilly , " he says , in a patronizing tone , on discovering him still to retain the perpendicular , and he shuts the door and stalks noisily before him into the parlour . " Dick rather expected you to - day , -he'll be in directly - but ...
... Gilly , " he says , in a patronizing tone , on discovering him still to retain the perpendicular , and he shuts the door and stalks noisily before him into the parlour . " Dick rather expected you to - day , -he'll be in directly - but ...
Page 78
... Gilly here bursts out into a laugh that re - assures Anak , who is beginning to think that there is considerably more starch in Gilly's disposition and linen than he should have expected from my description of him . " Ha ! ha ! ha ...
... Gilly here bursts out into a laugh that re - assures Anak , who is beginning to think that there is considerably more starch in Gilly's disposition and linen than he should have expected from my description of him . " Ha ! ha ! ha ...
Page 79
... Gilly is understood to repudiate the noble deed of charity ascribed to him . " You must have looked awfully queer without ' em , " says Anak , " being your four front ones - though ' pon my word they look so real that I should never ...
... Gilly is understood to repudiate the noble deed of charity ascribed to him . " You must have looked awfully queer without ' em , " says Anak , " being your four front ones - though ' pon my word they look so real that I should never ...
Page 80
... Gilly wouldn't come at such awkward times , " he says , in a grumbling voice ; " especially if he isn't hungry - and he won't have anything to drink either . He's not a bit like what you sketched him , Dick - he's as decent looking as ...
... Gilly wouldn't come at such awkward times , " he says , in a grumbling voice ; " especially if he isn't hungry - and he won't have anything to drink either . He's not a bit like what you sketched him , Dick - he's as decent looking as ...
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Page 65 - He is made one with Nature. There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird. He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone ; Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 133 - Bonnie and blooming and straight was its make, The sun took delight to shine for its sake ; And it will be the brag o
Page 156 - And mony ane sings o' corn ; And mony ane sings o' Robin Hood, Kens little whare he was born. It was na in the ha', the ha', Nor in the painted bower ; But it was in the gude green wood, Amang the lily flower.
Page 65 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th...
Page 107 - Empedocles, himself a native of the city, that • the Agrigentines built as if they were to live for ever, and feasted as if they were to die on the morrow.
Page 88 - It was well known that with a woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat 'em the better they be.
Page 89 - Up then spake the Queen o' Fairies, Out o' a bush o* broom — "She that has borrow'd young Tamlane, Has gotten a stately groom. — Up then spake the Queen o' Fairies, Out o' a bush o' rye— "She's ta'en awa the bonniest knight In a
Page 68 - THERE was three ladies in a ha', Fine flowers i' the valley ; There came three lords amang them a', Wi' the red, green, and the yellow.
Page 114 - They managed things better in Rome,' I say, laughing, ' where the citizens used to take out their slaves to evening parties to jest for them, and at every shout of laughter provoked by them assumed an air of modesty as if they had said all the good things themselves — it must have saved them a lot of trouble.
Page 211 - The red o' my love's cheek is red As blood that's spilt on snaw. "When ye come to the castle, Light on the tree of ash, And sit ye there and sing our loves As she comes frae the mass. " Four and twenty fair ladies Will to the mass repair; And weel may ye my lady ken, The fairest lady there.