Legends of ScotlandA. K. Newman and Company, 1823 |
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Page 187 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 163 - Phoebus' fiery car : The youth rush eager to the sylvan war, Swarm o'er the lawns, the forest walks surround, Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Th...
Page 149 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 40 - The best (said he) that I can you advise, Is to avoid the occasion of the ill ; For when the cause whence evil doth arise Removed is, the effect surceaseth still. Abstain from pleasure and restrain your will, Subdue desire and bridle loose delight, Use scanted diet, and forbear your fill, Shun secresy, and talk in open sight ; So shall you soon repair your present evil plight.
Page 108 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 252 - Holstein, 2 vols 0 10 0 The Modern Villa and Ancient Castle, or the Peer and Alderman, by Miss Byron, Author of the Englishwoman, &c. 3 vols ........................... ,. 0 15 0 Festival of St. Jago, by the Author of the Private History of the Court of England, i...
Page 252 - Devil upon Two Sticks in England, by the Author of Dr. Syntax's Tour in Search of the Picturesque, &c.
Page 251 - Hall, 4 vols 100 Scenes at Brighton, by Innes Hoole, Esq. 3 vols 0 15 0 Harley Radington, by Miss DP Campbell, 2 vols 0 10 6 Sicilian Romance, by Mrs. Radcliffe, new edition, 2 v. ()' 9 0 Freebooter of the Alps, a Romance, by James Griffin, 2 vols 0 11 0 Bigotry, or the Warning Voice, a Novel, 4 vols 1 40 De Willenberg, or the Talisman, a Tale of Mystery, by IMH Hales, Esq.
Page 251 - Very Strange, but very True, or the History of an old Man's Young Wife, by Francis Lathom, 2d edit.
Page 249 - The Wife of Fitzalice and the Caledonian Siren, a Romance, by Marianne Breton, 5 vols 1 76 Life of a Recluse, by A. Gibson, 2 vols 0 10 6 St. Clair of the Isles, or the Outlaws of Barra, by the tame, 2d edition, 4 vols 1 00 Anselmo, or the Day of Trial by Miss Hill, 4 vols..