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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... night upon the frith , they were at morning with- in sight of a beautiful bay upon the Scot- tish coast . The weather was now more mild . The snow , which had been for some time waning , had given way entire- ly under the fresh gale of ...
... night upon the frith , they were at morning with- in sight of a beautiful bay upon the Scot- tish coast . The weather was now more mild . The snow , which had been for some time waning , had given way entire- ly under the fresh gale of ...
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... night voyage . Perhaps , -for who can presume to analyse that inexplicable feel- ing which binds the person born in a moun- tainous country to his native hills , -per- haps some early associations , retaining their effect long after the ...
... night voyage . Perhaps , -for who can presume to analyse that inexplicable feel- ing which binds the person born in a moun- tainous country to his native hills , -per- haps some early associations , retaining their effect long after the ...
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... night I have landed articles there though . " While he thus spoke , they pulled round a point of rock , and found a very small harbour , partly formed by nature , partly by the indefatigable labour of the ancient inhabitants of the ...
... night I have landed articles there though . " While he thus spoke , they pulled round a point of rock , and found a very small harbour , partly formed by nature , partly by the indefatigable labour of the ancient inhabitants of the ...
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... night - not in the snow , I pre- sume ? you do not suppose that will pass , or be taken , credited , and received ? " " I beg leave , " said Bertram , his recol- lection turning to the gypsey female , and to the promise he had given her ...
... night - not in the snow , I pre- sume ? you do not suppose that will pass , or be taken , credited , and received ? " " I beg leave , " said Bertram , his recol- lection turning to the gypsey female , and to the promise he had given her ...
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Walter Scott. " I thought as much . - Were you not during that night in the ruins of Dern- cleugh ? —in the ruins of Derncleugh , sir ? ” " I have told you that I do not intend answering that question . " Well , sir , then you will stand ...
Walter Scott. " I thought as much . - Were you not during that night in the ruins of Dern- cleugh ? —in the ruins of Derncleugh , sir ? ” " I have told you that I do not intend answering that question . " Well , sir , then you will stand ...
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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.