Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk, כרך 1For W. Blackwood, 1822 |
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עמוד 9 - a carle that daunered about the doors wi' his hands in his pouches, and took them out at meal-time." As for Miss Mizy herself, she was a perfect paragon of gentility and precision. However slovenly the grounds about the house were kept, the interior of the mansion was always in the trimmest order ; and nothing could exceed the nun-like purity of the worthy lady's own cambric-clad person. It happened, by the death of a relation, that it was necessary the family should be put into mourning ; and Miss...
עמוד 32 - ... enough that their talk was cast in queer phrases, and their minds ran among the odds and ends of things. By this peculiar humour, he was preserved in his clachan simplicity ; while he made, as he often afterwards said himself, " his memory, like a wisdom-pock, a fouth of auld knick-knacketies — clues of experience, and shapings of matter, that might serve to clout the rents in the knees and elbows o
עמוד 32 - He was also distinguished from all the lads of his own age, for the preference which he gave to ,the knacky conversation of old and original characters. It signified not to him, whether the parties, with whom he enjoyed his leisure, were deemed douce or daft; it was enough that their talk was cast in queer phrases, and their minds ran among the odds and ends of things. By this peculiar humour, he was preserved in his clachan simplicity: while he made, as he often afterwards said...
עמוד 185 - But how many ladies act in the same way, and, heedless of the unsettled and fluctuating state of all human attachments, seem to consider, when they are wed-ded, that it is no longer requisite to continue those agreeable humours and graces which first won the esteem of their husbands. The triumph of wo-man lies not in the admiration of her lover, but in the respect of her husband; and it can only be gained by a constant cultivation of those qualities which she knows he most values.
עמוד 197 - The mavis, the the blackbird, and the linnet, were beginning to chirp and churm over their young in the bowers, but the lark was already at heaven's gate singing her matins. The sun had not yet risen, and the dew-drops lay like pearls on the grass and leaves ; a cheerful and refreshed composure was diffused over the whole face of the landscape, and the forehead of the sky appeared unusually spacious and beautiful; a few grey flakes of vapour scattered over it, seemed to float at an unwonted elevation,...