The Kinnears [by H. Keddie].1852 |
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... regard for duty . There was also a proud confidence in her own powers of judgment and of self - control , and a decided impression of what might be expected from her staid thirty years , along with an habitual regard for appearances ...
... regard for duty . There was also a proud confidence in her own powers of judgment and of self - control , and a decided impression of what might be expected from her staid thirty years , along with an habitual regard for appearances ...
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... regard to which advice would be otherwise than nearly powerless . The consideration of the almost entire dependance of herself and May on Willie in pecuniary matters , while it did not greatly increase Helen's anxiety for his steadiness ...
... regard to which advice would be otherwise than nearly powerless . The consideration of the almost entire dependance of herself and May on Willie in pecuniary matters , while it did not greatly increase Helen's anxiety for his steadiness ...
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... had provoked it . Helen held very different ideas with regard to Alick Laing : she was anxious to promote an intimacy between him and Willie , and quite ready to suggest or second everything that could lead 30 THE KINNEARS .
... had provoked it . Helen held very different ideas with regard to Alick Laing : she was anxious to promote an intimacy between him and Willie , and quite ready to suggest or second everything that could lead 30 THE KINNEARS .
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... regard to the inner , Alick Laing was clever , very clever , the avail- able sort of cleverness , the reasoning powers fully developed and decidedly predominating every well - exercised faculty under the entire command of 32 THE KINNEARS .
... regard to the inner , Alick Laing was clever , very clever , the avail- able sort of cleverness , the reasoning powers fully developed and decidedly predominating every well - exercised faculty under the entire command of 32 THE KINNEARS .
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... regard to ourselves , far less with reference to our Creator ; and it would be hard to deny to the poor publicans and sinners of our day , their one merit of old , that ' They heard Him gladly . ' But , May , how have you contrived to ...
... regard to ourselves , far less with reference to our Creator ; and it would be hard to deny to the poor publicans and sinners of our day , their one merit of old , that ' They heard Him gladly . ' But , May , how have you contrived to ...
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acquaintance admiration Ailse Renton Alick Laing Alick Laing's Andrew Steel Aunty Moffat Barbara Mason better bonnet CHAPTER Cissy colour comfort cool dance dinner doubt Elizabeth Boyd eyes face fancy father favour feel felt friends Georgina Boyd girls glad Greenock hand happy head hear heard heart Heathfield Helen Kinnear honour hope hour inquired Jamie Jane Cross Jane's John Sinclair Kidd knew ladies laughing least listen looked Margaret and Susan Margaret Laing Martinmas May's ment mill mind Miss Cross Miss Kinnear morning mother nature ness never night once party quiet rest round Russia Saltoun Muir scarcely SCOTTISH SONG seemed shawl sisters smile spirit Steel stood supper suppose sure Susan Laing talk tell thing thought tion to-night Tom Kidd turn walk whole Willie Kinnear Willie's window wish wonder young
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Էջ 248 - He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Էջ 281 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Էջ 281 - Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that ; For a
Էջ 42 - The luve o' life's young day ! The fire that's blawn on Beltane e'en May weel be black gin Yule; But blacker fa' awaits the heart Where first fond luve grows cule. 0 dear, dear Jeanie Morrison, The thochts o" bygane years Still fling their shadows ower my path And blind my een wi...
Էջ 193 - Or wherefore should I kame my hair ? For my true Love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.
Էջ 1 - Thy leaves were aye the first o' spring, thy flowers the simmer's pride; There wasna sic a bonnie tree in a' the country side. O rowan tree! How fair wert thou in simmer time, wi' a' thy clusters white, How rich and gay thy autumn dress, wi
Էջ 168 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Էջ 131 - Sin' the fa' o' the year. Sair trouble cam our gate, And made me, when it cam, A bird without a mate, A ewe without a lamb. Our hay was yet to maw, And our corn was to shear, When they a' dwined awa' In the fa' o
Էջ 1 - Wi' little Jeanie on her lap, and Jamie at her knee. 0 rowan tree! O there arose my father's prayer, in holy evening's calm; How sweet was then my mother's voice in the Martyr's psalm ! Now a' are gane! we meet nae mair aneath the rowan tree! But hallowed thoughts around thee twine o' hame and infancy, O rowan tree!
Էջ 220 - He turned him round and right about, Upon the Irish shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, With, adieu for ever more, my love ! Adieu for ever more ! " The soldier fra the war returns. The merchant fra the main ; But I ha'e parted fra...