The Highland Inn, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1839 - Scottish literature |
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Page 19 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Page 263 - tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears ; The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.
Page 132 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 94 - Emongst th' eternali spheres and lamping sky, And thence pourd into men, which men call Love ; Not that same, which doth base affections move In brutish mindes, and filthy lust inflame ; But that...
Page 65 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands...
Page 242 - Hope and fear, alternate, sway'd his breast ; Like light and shade upon a waving field, Coursing each other, when the flying clouds Now hide, and now reveal, the Sun.
Page 93 - Mordaunt was held, whilst, with one hand on the arm of the chair and the other on his knee, as if arrested in the act of rising, he gazed on the countenance of his friend.
Page 22 - ... the envy of the one sex and the admiration of the other, in Savannah.
Page 130 - The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 228 - And whether we shall meet again, I know not. Therefore our everlasting farewell take : For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius ! If we do meet again, why we shall smile ; If not, why then this parting was well made.