Discipline, by the author of 'Self-control'.1815 |
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Aberfoyle acquaintance answered apartment began Boswell Boswell's breath brother busk Castle Eredine Cecil Charlotte Charlotte Graham Charlotte's child companion countenance creature cried dare dear dear Charlotte delight door Edinburgh Ellen eyes face father favour fear feel felt Gaelic gible Glen Eredine Glendower hand heard heart Heaven Henry Graham Highland honour hope hour human humble husband inquired instantly interrupted keeper Kenneth Graham kind knew labour landlady look Maitland marriage means ment mind Miss Arnold Miss Graham Miss Percy morning ness never night obliged once pain perceived perhaps Perthshire poor Juliet portmanteau recollection request rest sashed window scarcely scene Scotland seemed shew sigh silence sion smile soon speak spirit spoke stranger sure tears tell temper thing thought tion told toyman trifle ture turned uncon uttered voice woman
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Side 190 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Side 215 - Hail, awful scenes, that calm the troubled breast, And woo the weary to profound repose ! Can Passion's wildest uproar lay to rest, And whisper comfort to the man of woes ! Here Innocence may wander, safe from foes, And Contemplation soar on seraph wings.
Side 20 - Household furniture. might be the most important personage for that day at least." Cecil soon made me comprehend, that she meant a brideman, whose office, she said, was to accompany the bridegroom when he went to invite guests to his wedding, and to attend him when he conducted his bride to her home. She told me that, according to the custom of her country, her wedding was not celebrated till some weeks after she had taken the vows of wedlock ; the Highland husband, once secure of his prize, prudently...
Side 24 - ... pluck so much as a gowan there ; and ever since the lightning tore the great oak, he'll sit beside her sometimes the summer's day, and calls her always
Side 14 - ye'll just sew that within the lining of your stays, lady ; or, with your leave, in the band of your petticoat ; and there'll nobody can harm you.
Side 21 - ... understanding, poor Robert left his post ; wandered unconsciously many a mile ; and reached his native glen on the day of Cecil's wedding. By means of much rhetoric and gesticulation upon Cecil's part, and innumerable questions upon mine, I obtained a tolerably distinct idea of the ceremonial of this wedding. Upon the eventful morning, the reluctant bride presided at a public breakfast, which was attended by all her acquaintance, and honoured by the presence of
Side 66 - I was awakened as from the deepest sleep, by a cry wild and horrible. It was followed by shouts of dissonant laughter, unlike the cheering sounds of human mirth. They seemed but the body's convulsion, in which the spirit had no part. I started and listened ; a ceaseless hum of voices wearied my ear. A recollection of the past came upon me, mixed with a strange uncertainty of my present state. The darkness of midnight was around me ; why then was its stillness broken by more than the discords of day...
Side 198 - I fear I was not polite enough to suppress some natural signs of loathing ; for the girl, with the quick observation of her countrymen, instantly apologized for the cause of my disgust. " It is just for sake of keeping them clean, with your leave ;" said she. " there's so many soot drops fall through this house.
Side 71 - I now perceived that he thought it necessary to humour me as a lunatic. " For mercy's sake," I cried, " do not trifle with me. You may easily convince yourself that I am in perfect possession of my reason, — do so then, and let me be gone. This place is overpowering to my spirits.
Side 280 - London, desired me to ride out with him, and show him the Parks of Culloden, without telling me the Reason of his Curiosity. Accordingly we set out, and when we were pretty near the Place, he asked me, — "Where are these Parks ? For," says he, " there is nothing near in View but Heath, and, at a Distance, Rocks and Mountains.