 | Electronic journals - 1924 - 566 pages
...David Elginbrod ' (1863), ch. xiii, quotes as an old epitaph : Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde. Have mercy o' my soul, Lord God; As I wad do, were I Lord God, An' ye were Martin Elginbrodde. I wonder what authority the Vice-Provost of Eton has for his version. JOHN... | |
 | George MacDonald - English fiction - 1863 - 342 pages
...ye'll tak' it, for it soun's rather fearsome at first hearin' o't. But ye'se hae't as I read it : " ' Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde : Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God ; As I wad do, were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrodde.'" Certainly Hugh could not help a slight shudder at what seemed to... | |
 | William White - Christian philosophers - 1867 - 704 pages
...epitaph discovered or invented by Mr. George Macdonald— ' Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde : ' Hao mercy o' my soul, Lord God ; ' As I wad do, were I Lord God, ' And ye were Martin Elginbrodde.' In his theology, this philosophy is brought forth from the spiritual... | |
 | William White - Christian philosophers - 1867 - 710 pages
...set forth in that curious and pitifUl epitaph discovered or invented by Mr. George Macdonald — 1 Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde : ' Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God ; 1 As I wad do, were I Lord God, ' And ye were Martin Elginbrodde.' In his theology, this philosophy... | |
 | William M. White - Mystics - 1868 - 816 pages
...sense finely set forth in that remarkable epitaph discovered or invented by George Macdonald — " Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde: Ha'e mercy o' my soul, Lord God ; As I would do, were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrodde." (sense within sense) had exercised the... | |
 | California - 1874 - 42 pages
...his fellow men, and thought only that he was a man. He would have said, with Martin Elginbrodde: " Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde; Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God As I wad do, were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrodde." The body was taken to the Oakland cemetery and deposited in the family... | |
 | National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches - 1876 - 912 pages
...wise and merciful Heaven, he breathes that prayer of deep contrition and daring confident love : — " Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde : , Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God ; As I wad do, were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrodde." All great believing is of the nature of idea, and not of fixed and... | |
 | George Bruce - St. Andrews (Scotland) - 1876 - 642 pages
...despised of the people." " l may tell all my bones : they look and stare upon me." — Daml, Psalm xxii. " Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde, Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God, As I would do, were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrodde." — An Epitaph. 'VULL many an hour, like... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...poor Eugenius. EPITAPH. ON AN ANCESTOR OF DAVID ELGINBROD. Hère lie I, Martin Elginbrod. Hae mercy on my soul, Lord God, As I wad do were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrod. L'ENFER. ' Ne nous imaginons pas que l'enfer consiste dans ces étangs... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...poor Eugenius. EPITAPH. ON AN ANCESTOR OF DAVID ELGINBROD. Here lie I, Martin Elginbrod. Hae mercy on my soul, Lord God, As I wad do were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrod. L'ENFES. ' Ne nous imaginops pas que 1'enfer consiste dans ces e"tangs... | |
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HERE lie I, Martin Elginbrodde; Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God, As I wad do were I Lord God,• And ye were Martin Elginbrodde. 
