Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life: A Selection from the Papers of the Late Arthur AustinBlackwood, 1822 - 430 pages |
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Abel affection Allan Bruce Amy Gordon beautiful beheld blessed bosom bright brother calm cheerful child church-yard cottage countenance Covenanter creature dark daugh daughter dead death deep door earth eyes face father fear feelings feet felt flowers friends garden gentle glen grave green grief hair hand Hannah Hannah Lee happy head heard heart heaven Helen Eyre Henry Beaumont hills hour humble husband innocent kirk kissed knees knew lifted lived looked lying Manse Mark Kerr marriage Mary Robinson Mary Stewart minister moorland Moss-side mother never night Norman Adams Orphan parish passion pity poor prayer racter round Sabbath Scotland Seatoun seemed Shealing shepherd silent Simon Gray sitting smile snow solemn solitary soon sorrow soul St Mary's Loch stood sweet tears thou thought utter voice walked Wallace's Cave Walter Harden weeping wept wife wild words young youth
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Page 148 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
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Page 63 - ... of you two alone. Tears were in his eyes ; I saw them there, and on his cheek too, when no breath came from his lips. But of this no more. He died with this paper in his hand ; and he made me know that I was to read it to you over his grave. I now obey him. " My sons, if you will let my bones lie quiet in the grave, near the dust of your mother, depart not from my burial till, in the name of God and Christ, you promise to love one another as you used to do. Dear boys, receive my blessing.
Page 275 - But after a few jests and oaths the soldiers stood still, eyeing with a kind of mysterious dread the black and silent walls of the rock that hemmed them in, and hearing only the small voice of the stream that sent a profounder stillness through the heart of that majestic solitude.
Page 63 - I must not say that you did your duty to your old father; for did lie not often beseech you, apart from one another, to be reconciled, for your own sakes as Christians, for his sake, and for the sake of the mother who bare you, and Stephen, who died that you might be...
Page 142 - The child did as the solemn voice commanded, and knelt down somewhat timidly by his father's side ; nor did the unhappy man decline encircling with his arm, the child too much neglected, but still dear to him as his own blood, in spite of the deadening and debasing influence of infidelity. " Put the word of God into the hands of my son, and let him read aloud to his dying father the 25th, 26th, and 27th verses of the eleventh chapter of the Gospel according to St.
Page 37 - There was no loud lamentation at these words — all had before known, though they would not confess it to themselves, what they now were told — and though the certainty that was in the words of the skilful man made their hearts beat for a little with sicker...