The Waverley Novels, Volume 3A. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Man- nering 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 was ...
... better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Man- nering 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 was ...
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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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... once every year to her family , in order the better to preserve it in her own memory , a ballad called The Durham Garland ; from which , or VOL . III . с some Scotch modification of it , he was inclined to GUY MANNERING 333.
... once every year to her family , in order the better to preserve it in her own memory , a ballad called The Durham Garland ; from which , or VOL . III . с some Scotch modification of it , he was inclined to GUY MANNERING 333.
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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 neigh- bouring 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 neigh- bouring proprietors ...
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... better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " " Certainly , sir , " said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the Triplicities ...
... better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " " Certainly , sir , " said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the Triplicities ...
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Annesley answered appearance Astrologer auld bairn better Brown called Carlaverock Castle castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlie child circumstances Colonel Mannering Dandie daughter dear Derncleugh Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door e'en Ellan Ellangowan farmer father fear feelings flageolet fortune frae Frank Kennedy Galloway gentleman gipsy Glossin gude gudewife guest Guy Mannering hame hand Hazlewood head heard honour hope horse Jean Jean Gordon Julia Kippletringan Laird land landlady Liddesdale light look Lord Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies Mervyn mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower parlour person poor portmanteau postilion precentor reader road round ruins scene Scotland seemed story stranger supposed sure there's thought tion traveller turned Warroch WAVERLEY NOVELS weel woman Woodbourne ye'll young lady
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Page 344 - Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door, Nor kind mate, bound, by holy vow, To bless a good man's store. Noon lulls us in a gloomy den, And night is grown our day ; Uprouse ye, then, my merry men ! And use it as ye may.
Page 201 - 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 211 - 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 96 - 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.
Page 109 - 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 152 - His eye-balls farther out than when he lived. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Page 201 - As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity...
Page 219 - Our Polly is a sad Slut ! nor heeds what we have taught her. I wonder any Man alive will ever rear a Daughter...
Page 85 - The 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.
Page 135 - ... that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise * that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.