| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 264 pages
...sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot...Father said, " And when we are on death-bed laid, O may our dear Ladye, and sweet St John, Forgive our souls for the deed we have done !"— The Monk... | |
| James Hogg - 1821 - 356 pages
...the Major got half way back to the bothy, the stranger guest was gone, and they saw no more of him. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, " I say the tale as 'twas said to me." DREADFUL STORY OF MACPHERSON. 193 But what was certainly extraordinary, after the dreadful catastrophe,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man ; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot...say the tale as 'twas said to me. XXIII. " Now, hie thce hence," the Father said, " And when we are on death-bed laid, O may our dear Ladye, and sweet... | |
| Gerald Griffin - 1827 - 394 pages
...precautions adopted by our pigmy hero are seldom omitted at bed-time. THE UNBURIED LEGS. I know not how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me. Scott* THE UNBURIED LEGS. IN the cool grey of a fine Sunday morning in the month of June, Shoresha... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...unlike the voice of òàë ; As if the tiends kept holiday, Because these spelts were brought to day. ! cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as × was said to me. XXIII. « Now hie thee hence,» the father said, » And when we are on death-bed... | |
| John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 344 pages
...laughter, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man : As if the fiends kept holiday, Because their spoils were brought to day. I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. Lay of the Last Minstrel. THE court removed to Perth in splendid array, anticipating the usual rejoicings... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...unlike the voice of man ; As if the 6cnds kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to d.iy. I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 't was said to me. XXIII. •• Now hie thee hence,* the father said, • And when we are on death-bed... | |
| William Howells - 1831 - 220 pages
...he would drown the country." The following story, I heard from an inhabitant of Carmarthen : — " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." It was lale one evening, in the times of fairies and ghosts, before you, gentle reader, or I had seen... | |
| 1849 - 522 pages
...portrait taken ; and the next time you honour me with your company, I will have it taken, sir." But— " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me." Mr. Lowndes never looks so comfortable as on his old chesnut mare : she never makes a mistake, is a... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - 1832 - 690 pages
...arrivals in the Sydney Gazette. given them nearly in his own words, and I may say with Sir Walter Scott, " I cannot tell how the truth may be ; I say the tale as 'twas said to me." " The Legend of Knockathample" remains as the Otter-killer related it ; but with " Rose Roche" I confess... | |
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