Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900 |
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Page 26 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 139 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Page 154 - On the spot where Prince Charles Edward first raised his standard on the 19th day of August, 1745, when he made the daring and romantic attempt to recover a throne lost by the imprudence of his ancestors, this column was erected by Alexander MacDonald, Esq., of Glenaladale, to commemorate the generous zeal, the undaunted bravery and the inviolable fidelity of his forefathers and the rest of those who fought and bled in that arduous and unfortunate enterprise.
Page 33 - Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence ; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons ; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things ; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." — Buckle. A politician in Albany while playing cards with several members of the Legislature dropped a hundred dollar bill under the table. On his way to bed he discovered his loss, and rushed back to the...
Page 140 - ... know the settlement went sadly to pieces and ruined many hopes. However, feeling I had not been entirely a success, — a feeling very habitual to me, — I was glad of Mrs Stewart's sign of departure, and went up to Mrs Tennyson on the sofa, to which she had returned, to take my leave. I am never good at parting politenesses, and I daresay was very gauche in saying that it was so kind of her to ask me; while she graciously responded that she was delighted to have seen me, &c., according to the...
Page 140 - ... which was called Rugby, in Tennessee, where the young Hughes were, and which was going to be the most perfect colony on the face of the earth, filled with nothing but the cardinal virtues. I think the old lady died there, and I know the settlement went sadly to pieces and ruined many hopes. However, feeling I had not been entirely a success,— a feeling very habitual to me,— I was glad of Mrs Stewart's sign of departure, and went up to Mrs Tennyson on the sofa, to which she had returned, to...
Page 139 - Look in his face and you'll forgive him all," he said. It was true that the man was a fool, and bore it on his face.) It was with Mrs Stewart that I first saw Tennyson. She had, I suppose, asked leave to take me there with her to luncheon, and I was of course glad to go, though a little unwilling, as my manner was. I forget where it was — an ordinary London house, where they were living for the season. Mrs Tennyson lay upon her sofa, as she did always — though able to be taken to the luncheon-table...