 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 pages
...fairer spread up. Not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better...saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road, and strode down the hill to overtake the caravan. Ellangowan rode pensively... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 536 pages
...fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born, God forbid,- — and make them kind to the poor, and...hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise f that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." So saying, she broke the sapling she held in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1892 - 498 pages
...fairer spread up ; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and...; for these are the last words yell ever hear Meg Mcrrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.' So... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 pages
...fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better...saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret of Anjou, bestowing on her triumphant foes her keen-edged malediction,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 920 pages
...forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! And now, ride e'en youi ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear...saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret of Anjou, bestowing on her triumphant foes her keen-edged malediction,... | |
 | Richard Dacre Archer-Hind, Robert Drew Hicks - 1899 - 518 pages
...fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that 's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and...ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words that ever ye '11 hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1903 - 736 pages
...Antiquary, to be sure, speaks Aberdonian, but that exception does not invalidate the general rule. And now ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last...that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan !" ' This is neither " languid, inarticulate twaddle," nor yet " ungrammatical, undramatic rigmarole... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1907 - 814 pages
...fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be bom—God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better...saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret of Anjou, bestowing on her triumphant foes her keen-edged malediction,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1907 - 498 pages
...fairer spread up ; not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that 1s yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and...ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye 'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I 'll ever cut in the bonny woods... | |
 | Charles Alexander Young - 1907 - 156 pages
...fairer spread up — not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and...folk than their father! and now, ride e'en your ways. . . ." One can but exclaim, as Queen Caroline does elsewhere, " This is eloquence." Scott's style has... | |
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... bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! — Ride your ways, Ellangowan, — Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry,... 
