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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... thought anxiously upon them as they are likely to affect you , al- though you have given me such slight cause to do so ? The C. is gone from home for several days ; Mr H. is almost quite recovered ; and I have reason to think that the ...
... thought anxiously upon them as they are likely to affect you , al- though you have given me such slight cause to do so ? The C. is gone from home for several days ; Mr H. is almost quite recovered ; and I have reason to think that the ...
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... thought Brown , who immediately asked the young fisher- man if he came from Portanferry . " Ay ; I am auld Willie Johnstone's son , and I got that letter frae my sister Peggy , that's laundry - maid at Woodbourne . ” " My good friend ...
... thought Brown , who immediately asked the young fisher- man if he came from Portanferry . " Ay ; I am auld Willie Johnstone's son , and I got that letter frae my sister Peggy , that's laundry - maid at Woodbourne . ” " My good friend ...
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... thought , " he must allow the manner in which I acted to have been the neces- sary consequence of his own over - bearing conduct . " And now we must suppose him once more embarked on the Solway frith . The wind was adverse , attended by ...
... thought , " he must allow the manner in which I acted to have been the neces- sary consequence of his own over - bearing conduct . " And now we must suppose him once more embarked on the Solway frith . The wind was adverse , attended by ...
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... - ledge was summed up in the information already given , " that it was a grand land- mark , and that there had been muckle fighting about the bit lang syne . " " I shall learn more of it , " thought GUY MANNERING . 17.
... - ledge was summed up in the information already given , " that it was a grand land- mark , and that there had been muckle fighting about the bit lang syne . " " I shall learn more of it , " thought GUY MANNERING . 17.
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Walter Scott. " I shall learn more of it , " thought Brown , " when I get ashore . " The boat continued its course close un- der the Point upon which the castle was situated , which frowned from the summit of its rocky scite upon the ...
Walter Scott. " I shall learn more of it , " thought Brown , " when I get ashore . " The boat continued its course close un- der the Point upon which the castle was situated , which frowned from the summit of its rocky scite upon the ...
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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.