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... hear , By virtue of his daughter , makes thousands a - year . Newbyth1 hertofor went snips with the peats , Bot having discovered them all to be cheats , Resolves for the future his sone Willie Baird Should be peat for his house as well ...
... hear , By virtue of his daughter , makes thousands a - year . Newbyth1 hertofor went snips with the peats , Bot having discovered them all to be cheats , Resolves for the future his sone Willie Baird Should be peat for his house as well ...
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... hear , Yet grieve we to think that it cost you so dear . 4 But if male - contents to our Prince should convey , And show we are useless when you are away , We'l laugh at your fate , which ye would not 24 COURT OF SESSION GARLAND .
... hear , Yet grieve we to think that it cost you so dear . 4 But if male - contents to our Prince should convey , And show we are useless when you are away , We'l laugh at your fate , which ye would not 24 COURT OF SESSION GARLAND .
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... presently hang by the neck . AIR . We're gayly yet . Pannel . We're no guilty yet , We're no guilty yet , Although we're accused , We're no guilty yet . Afore ye condemn , Ye man hear us a bit SONGS IN THE JUSTICIARY OPERA . 51.
... presently hang by the neck . AIR . We're gayly yet . Pannel . We're no guilty yet , We're no guilty yet , Although we're accused , We're no guilty yet . Afore ye condemn , Ye man hear us a bit SONGS IN THE JUSTICIARY OPERA . 51.
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James Maidment. Afore ye condemn , Ye man hear us a bit , For although we're accus'd We're no guilty yet . ( Jury are chosen , and the Indictment read . ) * AIR - Grimaldi's Jig in Mother Goose . Hyst . Whereas by the laws o ' this realm ...
James Maidment. Afore ye condemn , Ye man hear us a bit , For although we're accus'd We're no guilty yet . ( Jury are chosen , and the Indictment read . ) * AIR - Grimaldi's Jig in Mother Goose . Hyst . Whereas by the laws o ' this realm ...
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... hear a bit , Although I'm accused , I'm not guilty yet . 5. - Address to the Jury . Gentlemen , ' tis my turn to address you , And with much speaking I'll not oppress you ; The proof lies before you , in writing down taken , Therefore I ...
... hear a bit , Although I'm accused , I'm not guilty yet . 5. - Address to the Jury . Gentlemen , ' tis my turn to address you , And with much speaking I'll not oppress you ; The proof lies before you , in writing down taken , Therefore I ...
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Page 129 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 130 - ... lap of Earth, A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown ; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to Misery all he had — a tear; He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode — There they alike in trembling hope repose — The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 133 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 128 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne. And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 118 - When, wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last sob by the side of his dam.
Page 126 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 117 - How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber ? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start '.' How many long days and long weeks didst thou number, Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart?
Page 117 - I CLIMBED the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn, Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide : All was still, save, by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied.
Page 206 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.