Rob Roy

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Houghton Mifflin, 1923
 

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Strona 212 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very^ plain to be seen in the sand.
Strona 12 - I begin shrewdly to suspect the young man of a terrible taint — Poetry ; with which idle disease if he be infected, there's no hope of him in a state course.
Strona 193 - But you — wretch ! you could creep through the world unaffected by its various disgraces, its ineffable miseries, its constantly accumulating masses of crime and sorrow : you could live and enjoy yourself, while the noble-minded are betrayed — while nameless and birthless villains tread on the neck of the brave and...
Strona 250 - MacGregor, in a low tone that growled like distant thunder — ' like a boy, who thinks the auld gnarled oak can be twisted as easily as the young sapling. Can I forget that I have been branded as an outlaw, stigmatised as a traitor, a price set on my head as if I had been a wolf ; my family treated as the dam and cubs of the hill-fox, whom all may torment, vilify, degrade, and insult ; the very name which came to me from a long and noble line of martial ancestors denounced, as if it were a spell...
Strona 10 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Strona vii - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Strona xxxvi - He tamed who foolishly aspires, While to the measure of his might Each fashions his desires. "All kinds and creatures stand and fall By strength of prowess or of wit; 'Tis God's appointment who must sway, And who is to submit. "Since then," said Robin, "right is plain, And longest life is but a day, To have my ends, maintain my rights, I'll take the shortest way.
Strona 193 - She gave a brief command in Gaelic to her attendants, two of whom seized upon the prostrate suppliant, and hurried him to the brink of a cliff which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep for years afterwards. As the murderers, or executioners, call them as you will, dragged him along, he recognised me even in that moment of horror, and exclaimed, in the last articulate words I ever heard...
Strona 8 - Ah! it's a brave kirk — nane o' yere whigmaleeries and curliewurlies and open-steek hems about it — a' solid, weel-jointed mason-wark, that will stand as lang as the warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it. It had amaist a douncome lang syne at the Reformation, when they pu'ddoun the kirks of St. Andrews and Perth and thereawa', to cleanse them o...
Strona xxxvi - He tamed, who foolishly aspires ; " While to the measure of his might " Each fashions his desires. " All Kinds, and Creatures, stand and fall " By strength of prowess or of wit : " 'Tis God's appointment who must sway, " And who is to submit. " Since, then, the rule of right is plain, " And longest life is but a day ; " To have my ends, maintain my rights,

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