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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... interest and asto- nish posterity ! Their fortifications , their aqueducts , their theatres , their fountains , all their public works , bear the grave , solid , and majestic character of their lan- guage ; and our modern labours , like ...
... interest and asto- nish posterity ! Their fortifications , their aqueducts , their theatres , their fountains , all their public works , bear the grave , solid , and majestic character of their lan- guage ; and our modern labours , like ...
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... interest his answers ap- peared to excite . " It will be seen and heard of earth and sea will not hold their peace langer ! - Can ye say if the same man be now the Sheriff of the county , that has been sae for 11 16 GUY MANNERING . • ...
... interest his answers ap- peared to excite . " It will be seen and heard of earth and sea will not hold their peace langer ! - Can ye say if the same man be now the Sheriff of the county , that has been sae for 11 16 GUY MANNERING . • ...
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... interest , whatever it was , that determined her in his favour , arose not from the im- pulse of compassion , but from some inter- nal , and probably capricious , association of feelings , to which he had no clew . It rested , perhaps ...
... interest , whatever it was , that determined her in his favour , arose not from the im- pulse of compassion , but from some inter- nal , and probably capricious , association of feelings , to which he had no clew . It rested , perhaps ...
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... interest . She was once , you must know , a great heiress , but was ruined by the prodigality of her father , and the villainy of a horrid man in whom he confided . And one of the hand- somest young gentlemen in the country is attached ...
... interest . She was once , you must know , a great heiress , but was ruined by the prodigality of her father , and the villainy of a horrid man in whom he confided . And one of the hand- somest young gentlemen in the country is attached ...
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... interest and to require skill ,, without any great degree of danger . So that , upon the whole , Matilda , I think you should have had my father , with his pride of arms and of ancestry , his chivalrous point of honour , his high ...
... interest and to require skill ,, without any great degree of danger . So that , upon the whole , Matilda , I think you should have had my father , with his pride of arms and of ancestry , his chivalrous point of honour , his high ...
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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.