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... Hazlewood rides hame half the road wi ' her after sermon , " said one of the gossips in com- pany ; " I wonder how auld Hazlewood likes that . " 66 I kenna how he may like it now , " answered another of the tea - drinkers ; " but the ...
... Hazlewood rides hame half the road wi ' her after sermon , " said one of the gossips in com- pany ; " I wonder how auld Hazlewood likes that . " 66 I kenna how he may like it now , " answered another of the tea - drinkers ; " but the ...
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... Hazlewood , and whispered a word in her ear - then ran down the steep hastily , as if not trusting his resolution at a slower pace . " Where's Charles Hazlewood running ? " said the invalid , who apparently was accustomed to his ...
... Hazlewood , and whispered a word in her ear - then ran down the steep hastily , as if not trusting his resolution at a slower pace . " Where's Charles Hazlewood running ? " said the invalid , who apparently was accustomed to his ...
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... Hazlewood . To propose to her to become an inmate in his family , if distant from the scenes of her youth and the few whom she called friends , would have been less delicate ; but at Woodbourne she might without difficulty be induced to ...
... Hazlewood . To propose to her to become an inmate in his family , if distant from the scenes of her youth and the few whom she called friends , would have been less delicate ; but at Woodbourne she might without difficulty be induced to ...
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... Hazlewood held a distinguished place in his favour , and was a frequent visitor , not without the consent and appro- bation of his parents ; for there was no knowing , they thought , what assiduous attention might produce , and the ...
... Hazlewood held a distinguished place in his favour , and was a frequent visitor , not without the consent and appro- bation of his parents ; for there was no knowing , they thought , what assiduous attention might produce , and the ...
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... Hazlewood's situation . I would have my good papa take care that he does not himself pay the usual penalty of meddling folks . I assure you , if I were Hazlewood , I should look on his compliments , his bowings , his cloakings , his ...
... Hazlewood's situation . I would have my good papa take care that he does not himself pay the usual penalty of meddling folks . I assure you , if I were Hazlewood , I should look on his compliments , his bowings , his cloakings , his ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood House head heard honour hope horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird land Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker
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Page 210 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
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Page 332 - 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 193 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 104 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 110 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 37 - Tlie intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 50 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 43 - Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life. While the mystic twist is spinning, And the infant's life beginning, Dimly seen through twilight bending, Lo, what varied shapes attending...
Page 147 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.