Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 2James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - Astrologers - 358 pages |
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... fathers , and the manners I am now to describe have either altogether disappear- ed , or are greatly modified . Without lo- sing their rural simplicity of manners , they now cultivate arts unknown to the former generation , not only in ...
... fathers , and the manners I am now to describe have either altogether disappear- ed , or are greatly modified . Without lo- sing their rural simplicity of manners , they now cultivate arts unknown to the former generation , not only in ...
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... father's life's worth in the warld . " The tears stood in the good woman's eyes as she spoke . " Whisht ! whisht ! gudewife , " said her husband , with a smack that had much more affection than ceremony in it , " Never mind - never mind ...
... father's life's worth in the warld . " The tears stood in the good woman's eyes as she spoke . " Whisht ! whisht ! gudewife , " said her husband , with a smack that had much more affection than ceremony in it , " Never mind - never mind ...
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... bairns , poor things , sae keen to see their father . " This explained a great drumming and whining at the door of the little parlour , which had somewhat surprised Brown , though his kind landlady 42 GUY MANNERING .
... bairns , poor things , sae keen to see their father . " This explained a great drumming and whining at the door of the little parlour , which had somewhat surprised Brown , though his kind landlady 42 GUY MANNERING .
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... father used to say - they're warst where they're warst guided - there's baith gude and ill about the gypsies . " - C This , and some other desultory conver- sation , served as a " shoeing - horn " to draw on another cup of ale and ...
... father used to say - they're warst where they're warst guided - there's baith gude and ill about the gypsies . " - C This , and some other desultory conver- sation , served as a " shoeing - horn " to draw on another cup of ale and ...
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... no clew . It rested , perhaps , on a fancied likeness , such as Lady Macbeth found to her father in the sleeping monarch . Such were the reflections that passed in rapid succession through Brown's mind , 92 GUY MANNERING .
... no clew . It rested , perhaps , on a fancied likeness , such as Lady Macbeth found to her father in the sleeping monarch . Such were the reflections that passed in rapid succession through Brown's mind , 92 GUY MANNERING .
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Page 165 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 119 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 290 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Page 278 - Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene; Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around.