 He prayed but for life — for life he would give all he had in the world; it was but life he asked — life if it were to be prolonged under tortures and privations ; he asked only breath, though it should be drawn in the damps of the lowest caverns...  Rob Roy - Page 127by Walter Scott - 1834Full view - About this book
 | 1817 - 492 pages
...He prayed but for life — for life be would give all he had in the world ; — it was but a little he asked — life, if it were to be prolonged under...though it should be drawn in the damps of the lowest -s of their hills. ° i impossible to describe the scorn, the loatliiiiR and rfmtfrr.f . wirti whirb... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...muttered the name of Rashleigh. — He prayed but for life — for life he would give all he had in the world; — it was but life he asked — life, if it...of MacGregor regarded this wretched petitioner for the poor boon of existence. " I could have bid you live, " she said, " had life been to you the same... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...Raehleigh. He prayed but for life — for life IK: would have given all he had in the worhl ; — it was hut life he asked — life, if it were to be prolonged...the loathing and contempt, with which the wife of Mac Gregor regarded this wretched petitioner for the poor boon of existence. " ' I could have bid you... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...muttered the name of Rashleigh. — He prayed but for life — for life he would give all he had in the world ; — it was but life he asked — life, if...of MacGregor regarded this wretched petitioner for the poor boon of existence. " I could have bid you live," she said, " had life been to •yon the same... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...muttered the name of Rashleigh. — He prayed but for life — for life he would give all he had in the world; — it was but life he asked life, if it were...of MacGregor regarded this wretched petitioner for the poor boon of existence. " I could have bid you live," she said, " had life been to you the same... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 558 pages
...for life —for life he would give all he had in the world : it was but life he asked—life, ifit were to be prolonged under tortures and privations:...of MacGregor regarded this wretched petitioner for the poor boon of existence. " I could have bid you live," she said, " had life been to you the same... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...prolonged under tortures and privations:—he asked only breath, though it should be 25 drawn in the depths of the lowest caver'ns of their hills. It is impossible...of MacGregor regarded this wretched petitioner for the poor boon of existence. 30 She gave a brief command in Gaelic to her attendants, two of whom seized... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...HOUR may lay it in the dust. 501. He prayed but for LIFE — for LIFE he would give all he had in the world , — it was but LIFE he asked — LIFE, if...in the damps of the lowest caverns of their hills. 502. I could have BID you LIVE, had life been to YOU the same weary and wasting burden that it is to... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...muttered the name of Rashleigh. — He prayed but for life — for life he would give all he had in the world ; — it was but life he asked — life, if...breath, though it should be drawn in the damps of thn lowest caverns of their hills. It is impossible to describe the scorn, the loathing, and contempt,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...world;—it was but life he asked—life, if it were to be prolonged under tortures and privations;—he asked only breath, though it should be drawn in the damps of thr, lowest caverns of their hills. It is impossible to describe the scorn, the loathing, and contempt,... | |
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