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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... scene an open heath , having for the back - ground that huge chain of mountains in which Skiddaw and Saddleback are pre - eminent ; let him look along that blind road , by which I mean that track so slightly marked by the passengers ...
... scene an open heath , having for the back - ground that huge chain of mountains in which Skiddaw and Saddleback are pre - eminent ; let him look along that blind road , by which I mean that track so slightly marked by the passengers ...
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... visible in that direction than in any other part of its extent . His education had been imperfect and desultory ; but neither the busy scenes in which he had been engaged , nor the pleasures of youth , nor 6 GUY MANNERING .
... visible in that direction than in any other part of its extent . His education had been imperfect and desultory ; but neither the busy scenes in which he had been engaged , nor the pleasures of youth , nor 6 GUY MANNERING .
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... scene of action . As he had been no easy antagonist , even when surprised and alone , the villains did not chuse to wait his joining forces with a man who had singly proved a match for them both , but fled across the bog as fast as ...
... scene of action . As he had been no easy antagonist , even when surprised and alone , the villains did not chuse to wait his joining forces with a man who had singly proved a match for them both , but fled across the bog as fast as ...
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... scene of sport , and began to see other men , both on horse and foot , making towards the place of rendezvous . Brown was puzzling him- self to conceive how a fox - chase could take place among hills , where it was barely pos- sible for ...
... scene of sport , and began to see other men , both on horse and foot , making towards the place of rendezvous . Brown was puzzling him- self to conceive how a fox - chase could take place among hills , where it was barely pos- sible for ...
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... leash , in readiness to slip them at the fox , as soon as the activity of the party below should force him to abandon his cover . 3 The scene , though uncouth to the eye · of a professed sportsman , had something in it 56 GUY MANNERING .
... leash , in readiness to slip them at the fox , as soon as the activity of the party below should force him to abandon his cover . 3 The scene , though uncouth to the eye · of a professed sportsman , had something in it 56 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.