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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... thought , " but to 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 ...
... thought , " but to 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 ...
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... thought life had few things better than the excitation produced by being whirled rapidly along in a post - chaise ; but he who has in youth experienced the confident and independent , feeling of a stout pedestrian in an interesting ...
... thought life had few things better than the excitation produced by being whirled rapidly along in a post - chaise ; but he who has in youth experienced the confident and independent , feeling of a stout pedestrian in an interesting ...
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... of business or pleasure . " I wish , " thought Brown , " the good farmer had staid till I came up ; I should not have been sorry to ask him a few questions 1 about the road , which seems to grow wilder and GUY MANNERING . 23.
... of business or pleasure . " I wish , " thought Brown , " the good farmer had staid till I came up ; I should not have been sorry to ask him a few questions 1 about the road , which seems to grow wilder and GUY MANNERING . 23.
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... thought he heard their sound at some distance , and , convinced that Mr Dinmont's progress through the morass must be still slower than his own , he resolved to push on , in hopes to overtake him , and have the bene- fit of his ...
... thought he heard their sound at some distance , and , convinced that Mr Dinmont's progress through the morass must be still slower than his own , he resolved to push on , in hopes to overtake him , and have the bene- fit of his ...
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... thought Brown , " and I may manage them well enough . " They met accordingly , with the most murderous threats on the part of the ruffians . They soon found , however , that their new opponent was equally stout and resolute ; and ...
... thought Brown , " and I may manage them well enough . " They met accordingly , with the most murderous threats on the part of the ruffians . They soon found , however , that their new opponent was equally stout and resolute ; and ...
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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.