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... better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which " Guy Mannering " was originally founded ; but to which , in the progress of the work , the production ceased . to bear any , even the most distant resemblance . The tale ...
... better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which " Guy Mannering " was originally founded ; but to which , in the progress of the work , the production ceased . to bear any , even the most distant resemblance . The tale ...
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... Better , far better , that they torment him by ungrateful cravings , than that he should have to repent having satiated them by criminal indulgence . " The dispositions of the young man were so excellent , that he combated , by reason ...
... Better , far better , that they torment him by ungrateful cravings , than that he should have to repent having satiated them by criminal indulgence . " The dispositions of the young man were so excellent , that he combated , by reason ...
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... better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors ...
... better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors ...
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... better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " 66 Certainly , sir , " said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his nativity accord- ing to the rule of the Triplicities ...
... better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " 66 Certainly , sir , " said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his nativity accord- ing to the rule of the Triplicities ...
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... better judgments . Whether the coincidence which I have mentioned was really one of those singular chances , which sometimes happen against all ordinary calculations ; or whether Mannering , bewildered amid the arithmetical labyrinth ...
... better judgments . Whether the coincidence which I have mentioned was really one of those singular chances , which sometimes happen against all ordinary calculations ; or whether Mannering , bewildered amid the arithmetical labyrinth ...
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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?
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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...
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