The Fortunes of NigelJ.M. Dent, 1906 - 457 pages Were you lauding the taste of my embroidery, Maister Maxwell? answered the knight, who apparently interpreted the deputy- chamberlain's meaning rather from his action than his words;--it is of an ancient and liberal pattern, having been made by your mother's father, auld James Stitchell, a master-fashioner of honest repute, in Merlin's Wynd, whom I made a point to employ, as I am now happy to remember, seeing your father thought fit to intermarry with sic a person's daughter. |
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Page 131 - ... would have proceeded probably to state the difference betwixt their ages, as the only alloy to their nuptial happiness ; but her lodger, who had no mind to be farther exposed to his gay friend's raillery, gave her, contrary to his wont, a signal to leave the room. Lord Dalgarno looked after her...
Page 100 - To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her Peers...
Page xxx - When I light on such a character as Bailie Jarvie, or Dalgetty, my imagination brightens, and my conception becomes clearer at every step which I take in his company, although it leads me many a weary mile away from the regular road, and forces me to leap hedge and ditch to get back into the route again. If I resist the temptation, as you advise me, my thoughts become prosy, flat, and dull...
Page xxviii - ... received you so kindly, and to the critics, who have treated you so leniently, ought to induce you to bestow more pains on your story. Author. I do entreat you, my son, as Dr. Johnson would have said, "free your mind from cant.
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Page 404 - We are not worst at once — the course of evil Begins so slowly, and from such slight source, An infant's hand might stem its breach with clay ; But let the stream get deeper, and philosophy — Aye, and religion too, — shall strive in vain To turn the headlong torrent.
Page xix - The great ladies do go well masked, and indeed it be the only show of their modesty to conceal their countenance ; but, alack, they meet with such countenance to uphold their strange doings, that I marvel not at aught that happens.
Page xxi - Middlesex, was successful above the author's expectations, ' no comedy these many years having filled the theatre so long together. And I had the great honour,' continues Shadwell, ' to find so many friends, that the house was never so full since it was built as upon the third day of this play, and vast numbers went away that could not be admitted.
Page 443 - Why, he could tell The inch where Richmond stood, where Richard fell ; Besides, what of his knowledge he could say, He had authentic notice from the play, Which I might guess...