Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 3James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1817 - 358 pages |
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... Hands off is fair play ; zounds , they'll bring the whole country down upon them —na , na ! when I was in that way I played at giffgaff with the officers - here a cargo ta'en - vera weel , that was their luck ; - there another carried ...
... Hands off is fair play ; zounds , they'll bring the whole country down upon them —na , na ! when I was in that way I played at giffgaff with the officers - here a cargo ta'en - vera weel , that was their luck ; - there another carried ...
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... hands , it would be difficult either to understand its real purport , or to trace the writer . This letter the old man undertook faithfully to deliver to his daughter at Woodbourne ; and , as his trade would speedily again bring him or ...
... hands , it would be difficult either to understand its real purport , or to trace the writer . This letter the old man undertook faithfully to deliver to his daughter at Woodbourne ; and , as his trade would speedily again bring him or ...
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... hands of a young fisherman the following letter : " You have acted with the most cruel indiscretion ; you have shewn how little I can trust to your declarations that my peace and happiness are dear to you ; and your rashness has nearly ...
... hands of a young fisherman the following letter : " You have acted with the most cruel indiscretion ; you have shewn how little I can trust to your declarations that my peace and happiness are dear to you ; and your rashness has nearly ...
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... a very low ebb . He left directions at the post - office that his letters should be forwarded to Kippletringan , whither he resolved to proceed and reclaim the trea- sure which he had deposited in the hands of Mrs GUY MANNERING . 13.
... a very low ebb . He left directions at the post - office that his letters should be forwarded to Kippletringan , whither he resolved to proceed and reclaim the trea- sure which he had deposited in the hands of Mrs GUY MANNERING . 13.
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Walter Scott. sure which he had deposited in the hands of Mrs Mac - Candlish . He also felt it would be his duty to assume his proper character so soon as he received the ne- cessary evidence for supporting it , and , as an officer in ...
Walter Scott. sure which he had deposited in the hands of Mrs Mac - Candlish . He also felt it would be his duty to assume his proper character so soon as he received the ne- cessary evidence for supporting it , and , as an officer in ...
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acromion process Allonby ance answered arms auld Aweel Baronet better called Captain carriage castle Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor court-yard custom-house dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door eyes father favour feelings fire follow Glossin gude GUY MANNERING gypsey hand Hazlewood of Hazlewood Hazlewood-house hear heard heart Henry Bertram honour horse hour Julia kenn'd Kippletringan ladies Laird late Ellangowan Liddesdale light look Lucy Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun mean Meg Merrilies ment Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning murder neighbour never night ower person Pleydell Portanferry prisoner raick recollection respect ruin Sampson Scotland Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers spect suppose tell there's thing thought tion tram turn Vanbeest Brown voice weel wood Woodbourne word ye'll young Hazlewood younker
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Page 137 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 80 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 38 - He took his flageolet from his pocket, and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel, who, close beside a fine spring about halfway down the descent, and which had once supplied the castle with water, was engaged in bleaching linen.
Page 297 - Receive our aid, and then again The story of thy life disclose. For, though seduced and led astray, Thou'st travell'd far and wander'd long; Thy God hath seen thee all the way, And all the turns that led thee wrong.
Page 37 - I remember the tune well,' he says, ' though I cannot guess what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory. ' He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel.