 ... their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! — Ride your ways, Ellangowan. — Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up— not that I am wishing ill...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 503a cura di - 1815Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Charles Alexander Young - 1907 - 156 pagine
...backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up — not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born...folk than their father! and now, ride e'en your ways. . . ." One can but exclaim, as Queen Caroline does elsewhere, " This is eloquence." Scott's style has... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1907 - 498 pagine
...at hame be the fairer spread up ; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that 1s yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind...ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye 'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I 'll ever cut in the bonny woods... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 466 pagine
...backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up— not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." 1 Delicacies. So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 474 pagine
...bairns are hinging at our weary backs; look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up. Ride your ways, for these are the last words ye'll ever...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." She broke the sapling she held and flung it into the road, and strode away after the caravan; and Ellangowan... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 pagine
...backs ; look that your braw cradle at liame be the fairer spread up ; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry or to the babe that's yet to be born...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." l The second passage is one of description : In the inside of the cottage was a scene which our \Vilkie... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 pagine
...Burke — antithetical and oratorical in general scheme. In a most careful recent scrutiny I have found little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born...ever cut | in the bonny | woods | of Ellangowan." I have bracketed and italicised one clause because it is of the nature of a parenthetic aside, descending... | |
 | Francis Henry Pritchard - 1923 - 214 pagine
...backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up— not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. Here everyday, commonplace speech is exalted into rhetoric — the borderland between prose and verse.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 676 pagine
...at hame be the fairer spread up; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that 's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind...ride e'en your ways; for these are the last words ye 'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods... | |
 | Francis Henry Pritchard - 1924 - 258 pagine
...backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up — not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan. Here everyday, commonplace speech is exalted into rhetoric — the borderland between prose and verse.... | |
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