Waverley Novels, Volume 2John C. Nimmo, 1898 |
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Page xvii
... speaking in general terms , had prophesied that they would . Let us quote the " British Critic " ( 1815 ) . " There are few spectacles in the literary world more lamentable than to view a successful author , in his second appearance ...
... speaking in general terms , had prophesied that they would . Let us quote the " British Critic " ( 1815 ) . " There are few spectacles in the literary world more lamentable than to view a successful author , in his second appearance ...
Page xix
... speak of the novel with ap- probation , we will not affect to deny that we read it with interest , and that it repaid us with amusement . ” It is in reviewing " The Antiquary " that the im- • mortal idiot of the " Quarterly " complains ...
... speak of the novel with ap- probation , we will not affect to deny that we read it with interest , and that it repaid us with amusement . ” It is in reviewing " The Antiquary " that the im- • mortal idiot of the " Quarterly " complains ...
Page 20
... speak ; and as he had been watching with some curiosity when this eating , drinking , moving , and smoking automaton would perform the part of speaking , he was a good deal diverted with the harsh - timbre tones which issued from him ...
... speak ; and as he had been watching with some curiosity when this eating , drinking , moving , and smoking automaton would perform the part of speaking , he was a good deal diverted with the harsh - timbre tones which issued from him ...
Page 37
... speak to the prophetess , when a voice , hoarse as the waves with which it mingled , hallooed twice , and with increasing im- patience : " Meg , Meg Merrilies ! -Gypsy - hag- tousand deyvils ! " " C I am coming , I am coming , Captain ...
... speak to the prophetess , when a voice , hoarse as the waves with which it mingled , hallooed twice , and with increasing im- patience : " Meg , Meg Merrilies ! -Gypsy - hag- tousand deyvils ! " " C I am coming , I am coming , Captain ...
Page 38
... speaking perfectly good English . " Donner and blitzen ! we have been staying this half hour . Come , bless the good ship and the voyage , and be cursed to ye for a hag of Satan ! " At this moment he noticed Mannering , who , from the ...
... speaking perfectly good English . " Donner and blitzen ! we have been staying this half hour . Come , bless the good ship and the voyage , and be cursed to ye for a hag of Satan ! " At this moment he noticed Mannering , who , from the ...
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Allonby answered appearance astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh devil deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellan Ellangowan father favour fear feelings fellow fire frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin gowan gude Guy Mannering gypsy hand head heard heart honour horse Jabos Julia Kennedy kind Kippletringan laird land Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun ment Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night occasion ower person Pleydell poor postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed side sloop-of-war smugglers sort stranger suppose tell there's thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker