The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1857 |
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... tell you medical people talk much of infec- tion from breathing the same air , the touch , & c . , but I never ex- pressly said I loved her . Indeed I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her , when returning in ...
... tell you medical people talk much of infec- tion from breathing the same air , the touch , & c . , but I never ex- pressly said I loved her . Indeed I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her , when returning in ...
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... telling us to see the cup of Thyrsis . " Down flow'd her robe , a tartan sheen , Till half her leg was scrimply seen ; And such a leg ! my bonny Jean Could only peer it ; Sae straught , sae taper , tight , and clean , Nane else could ...
... telling us to see the cup of Thyrsis . " Down flow'd her robe , a tartan sheen , Till half her leg was scrimply seen ; And such a leg ! my bonny Jean Could only peer it ; Sae straught , sae taper , tight , and clean , Nane else could ...
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... many yards , will anybody tell us , were in that green mantle ? And what a pattern ! Thomas Campbell knew better what liberty is allowed by nature to Imagination in her inspired dreams . THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF BURNS . 21.
... many yards , will anybody tell us , were in that green mantle ? And what a pattern ! Thomas Campbell knew better what liberty is allowed by nature to Imagination in her inspired dreams . THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF BURNS . 21.
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... tell at once of home's familiar doings and of the highest thoughts that can ascend in supplication to the throne of God . What is the eighteenth stanza , and why did it too " thrill with peculiar ecstasy my soul ? " You may be sure that ...
... tell at once of home's familiar doings and of the highest thoughts that can ascend in supplication to the throne of God . What is the eighteenth stanza , and why did it too " thrill with peculiar ecstasy my soul ? " You may be sure that ...
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... tell of fingers more familiar with the plough than the pen ? He himself sometimes must have wondered to find every receptacle in the spence crammed with manu- scripts , to say nothing of the many others floating about all over the ...
... tell of fingers more familiar with the plough than the pen ? He himself sometimes must have wondered to find every receptacle in the spence crammed with manu- scripts , to say nothing of the many others floating about all over the ...
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