The Dominie's Legacy, Količina 1W. Kidd, 1830 - 278 strani |
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artist Balgownie beautiful bonnie Brae canna Castle Castle Walk Charles Whittingham Church of Scotland companion countenance dark Darnwood Dominie door dreadful Ellis exclaimed eyes face Fanny Farquhar feelings female forward frae gave gazing gentlemen George Wishart girl Glasgow guilty hand head hear heard heart Heaven hour husband instant Janet Hodgert Jean Emerie Jemima John Ross knock kore Laird light look Madam maid manner mansion marriage maun midnight minister Miss Brodie Miss Peggy moonlight morning Muirdyke murdered naething neighbourhood never old woman Paisley passed poor pretty woman prison Richard Richard Ellis Rosshaugh round Sabbath night seemed sharpshooters silence sister Margery sleep sorrow speak spirit spot Stirling stood strange street tell thing Thomas Trail thought tion town of Barhill trees Trongate turbed walk watching wife wretched young lady youth
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Stran 215 - Alike unknowing and unknown. 4 [Their hatred and their love is lost, Their envy buried in the dust ; They have no share in all that's done Beneath the circuit of the sun...
Stran 169 - 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.
Stran 115 - ... disputes of the neighbourhood, especially when they happened to be upon subjects that required learning; and though, by a few, he was still jeeringly called " Minister Tarn," his tall figure and rusty black coat, together with his plaintive look and sad manner, with the majority commanded every where a compassionate respect. But the little services he was able to render his neighbours being, in general, rewarded only by a treat at the public house, to which his fits of despondency began now too...
Stran 100 - ... couple now be expected to talk about but Tarn, and of what their Tarn was to be, whom they had now at the Glasgow College, " bringing him up to be a minister ?" And when at length his first season was over, and all his fees paid, and his lodging money every farthing, and his books, and his pocket money, and so forth, " a wearifu sum," and he returned once more to the Crosslets of Paisley for the summer, with all his books and bundles, his stature lengthened out, and several new words on his tongue's...
Stran 121 - ... authentic accounts ever arrived. What his thoughts were, while on the march, " in a foreign land," or as he stood his watch as sentinel in the long cold nights, and pondered of Scotland and the Paisley Braes, and of his old mother and father at home, and of former happy sabbath nights, and of Jean Emerie who was never to see or weep with him again, we can only guess; for the last that was heard of Minister Tarn in the Crosslets of Paisley, was, that he had fallen gloriously at the battle of Salamanca...
Stran 104 - ... way he got over five or six years, to the great expense and delight of his mother, whose astonishment every year increased at the rapid growth of her son's person and learning. A proud woman was she, when thinking of Tarn, notwithstanding all his faults, as she sat on the Saturday afternoons at her upper window, with her spectacles on her nose, looking out for the weekly visit which her son at this time was pleased to make her, from the grand College of Glasgow. A beautiful youth was
Stran 105 - Hall,' meaning the Divinity Hall, which was, of course, to make them all ministers. But Tarn Trail was a youth of spirit ; and, although there were numbers of his fellows, the sons of weavers, and hucksters, and small shoemakers, and the like, at college, to be made great men like himself, he did not at all affect their company, but rather courted the acquaintance of minister lads, whose fathers were somewhat genteel in the world ; so that Tarn would actually deny the place of his birth and domicile,...
Stran 98 - ... shops in a morning to get him home to his oaten meal porridge ; saying, in her Aberdeen twang, as she thrust her head in at the doors, " Tammy, my maun, come hame to your parritch — they've been standing this hour on the kist head, an...
Stran 113 - Paisley, hopeless and helpless, stamped with the confirmed and valueless character of " a sticked minister." Employment was again his aim, if it were only to obtain a scanty supply of pocketmoney, now more than ever necessary, and to relieve the humbled anxiety of his mind. For two or three years he was driven about from post to pillar, in all the misery of uncertainty, and incurring all the vexations of tantalizing hope and repeated disappointment. Sometimes he taught a small school of his own ;...
Stran 99 - ... it was perfectly beyond wondering at; besides, he grew up so fast for his years, that nothing in the place had ever yet appeared so wonderful ; even the " calves of the stall," which we read of in the book of Habakkuk, were nothing to him. What was then to be done with such an extraordinary youth ? That was the question ; for that he was " beyond the common," was, to his parents, quite evident, and all the neighbours confirmed the fact, for there are few so low as not to find flatterers.