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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... heads , was hung diagonally beneath the helmet and crest , the latter being a wolf couchant pierced with an arrow . On either side stood as supporters , in full human size or larger , a salvage man proper , to use the language of ...
... heads , was hung diagonally beneath the helmet and crest , the latter being a wolf couchant pierced with an arrow . On either side stood as supporters , in full human size or larger , a salvage man proper , to use the language of ...
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... head That I so fain would see ? " " By heaven , " said Bertram , " it is the very ballad ! I must learn these words from the girl . " " Confusion ! " thought Glossin ; " if I cannot put a stop to this , all will be out . O the devil ...
... head That I so fain would see ? " " By heaven , " said Bertram , " it is the very ballad ! I must learn these words from the girl . " " Confusion ! " thought Glossin ; " if I cannot put a stop to this , all will be out . O the devil ...
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... head of an ancient and powerful inte- rest in the country , which had in the deca- dence of the Ellangowan family gradually succeeded to much of their authority and influence . The present representative of the family was an elderly man ...
... head of an ancient and powerful inte- rest in the country , which had in the deca- dence of the Ellangowan family gradually succeeded to much of their authority and influence . The present representative of the family was an elderly man ...
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... head , and desired him to ride fast , he ordered two officers of jus- tice to get into the carriage with Bertram , and he himself , mounting his horse , ac- companied them at a slow pace to the point where the roads to Kippletringan and ...
... head , and desired him to ride fast , he ordered two officers of jus- tice to get into the carriage with Bertram , and he himself , mounting his horse , ac- companied them at a slow pace to the point where the roads to Kippletringan and ...
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... head incredu- lously . " Why , friend , you do not pretend to believe that I am really a malefactor ? " 66 Why , I no ken , " said the fellow ; " but if ye are on the account , ye're nae sharp ane , that's the day - light o't . " " And ...
... head incredu- lously . " Why , friend , you do not pretend to believe that I am really a malefactor ? " 66 Why , I no ken , " said the fellow ; " but if ye are on the account , ye're nae sharp ane , that's the day - light o't . " " And ...
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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.