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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... there , if possi ble , until he should receive letters from his regimental friends , and remittances from his agent ; and then to resume his own character , and offer to young Hazle- wood and his friends any explanation or satisfaction ...
... there , if possi ble , until he should receive letters from his regimental friends , and remittances from his agent ; and then to resume his own character , and offer to young Hazle- wood and his friends any explanation or satisfaction ...
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... usually remained for a month or two sticking in the postmaster's . window , among pamphlets , gingerbread , rolls , or ballads , according to the trade which the said postmaster exercised . Be- sides , there 10 GUY MANNERING .
... usually remained for a month or two sticking in the postmaster's . window , among pamphlets , gingerbread , rolls , or ballads , according to the trade which the said postmaster exercised . Be- sides , there 10 GUY MANNERING .
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Walter Scott. which the said postmaster exercised . Be- sides , there was then a custom , not yet wholly obsolete , of causing a letter , from one town to another , perhaps within the distance of thirty miles , perform a cir- cuit of two ...
Walter Scott. which the said postmaster exercised . Be- sides , there was then a custom , not yet wholly obsolete , of causing a letter , from one town to another , perhaps within the distance of thirty miles , perform a cir- cuit of two ...
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... there if you like . " " I should like it of all things . I must visit that ruin before I continue my jour- ney . " " Ay , it's a queer auld bit ; and that highest tower is a gude land - mark as far as Ramsay in Man , and the Point of ...
... there if you like . " " I should like it of all things . I must visit that ruin before I continue my jour- ney . " " Ay , it's a queer auld bit ; and that highest tower is a gude land - mark as far as Ramsay in Man , and the Point of ...
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... There's a place where their berlins and gallies , as they ca'd them , used to lie in lang syne , but it's no used ... there though . " While he thus spoke , they pulled round a point of rock , and found a very small harbour , partly ...
... There's a place where their berlins and gallies , as they ca'd them , used to lie in lang syne , but it's no used ... there though . " While he thus spoke , they pulled round a point of rock , and found a very small harbour , partly ...
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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.