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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... give vent to those buoy- ant feelings which he had no other mode of expressing . For each peasant whom he chanced to meet , he had a kind greeting or a good - humoured jest ; the hardy Cum- brians grinned as they passed , and said ...
... give vent to those buoy- ant feelings which he had no other mode of expressing . For each peasant whom he chanced to meet , he had a kind greeting or a good - humoured jest ; the hardy Cum- brians grinned as they passed , and said ...
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... Give a dog an ill name and hang him ; " and it may be added , if you give a man , or race of men , an ill name , they are very likely to do something that deserves hanging . Of this Brown had heard something , and suspected more , from ...
... Give a dog an ill name and hang him ; " and it may be added , if you give a man , or race of men , an ill name , they are very likely to do something that deserves hanging . Of this Brown had heard something , and suspected more , from ...
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... Wasp , after licking his master's hand to ask leave , couched himself on the coverlet at his feet ; and the traveller's senses were soon lost in grateful oblivion . CHAPTER IV . Give ye , Britons , then- Your GUY MANNERING . 47.
... Wasp , after licking his master's hand to ask leave , couched himself on the coverlet at his feet ; and the traveller's senses were soon lost in grateful oblivion . CHAPTER IV . Give ye , Britons , then- Your GUY MANNERING . 47.
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... give the eye so much pleasure in looking at an English farm - house . There were , notwithstanding , evident signs that this arose only from want of taste or igno- rance , not from poverty , or the negligence which attends it . On the ...
... give the eye so much pleasure in looking at an English farm - house . There were , notwithstanding , evident signs that this arose only from want of taste or igno- rance , not from poverty , or the negligence which attends it . On the ...
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... give the body , as she muttered , " a mair decent appearance . " the hut . At once three or four men , equally ruf- fians in appearance and dress , rushed into Meg , ye limb of Satan , how dare you leave the door open ? " was the first ...
... give the body , as she muttered , " a mair decent appearance . " the hut . At once three or four men , equally ruf- fians in appearance and dress , rushed into Meg , ye limb of Satan , how dare you leave the door open ? " was the first ...
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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.