Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - Astrologers - 358 pages |
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... hour ; But scarce I praise their venturous part , Who tamper with such dangerous art . Lay of the Last Minstrel . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I. EDINBURGH : Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , ORME , AND BROWN ...
... hour ; But scarce I praise their venturous part , Who tamper with such dangerous art . Lay of the Last Minstrel . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I. EDINBURGH : Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , ORME , AND BROWN ...
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... hour the wean's born , and I'll spae its fortune . " 66 Aye , but , Meg , we shall not want your assistance , for here's a student from Oxford that knows much better than you how to spae his fortune - he does it by the stars ...
... hour the wean's born , and I'll spae its fortune . " 66 Aye , but , Meg , we shall not want your assistance , for here's a student from Oxford that knows much better than you how to spae his fortune - he does it by the stars ...
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... in aspects sextile , quartile , trine , conjoined or opposite ; houses of heaven , with their cusps , hours , and minutes ; Almuten , Almochoden , An- ahibazon , Catahibazon ; a thousand terms of equal sound 44 GUY MANNERING .
... in aspects sextile , quartile , trine , conjoined or opposite ; houses of heaven , with their cusps , hours , and minutes ; Almuten , Almochoden , An- ahibazon , Catahibazon ; a thousand terms of equal sound 44 GUY MANNERING .
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... hour and minute of the birth , re- quested , with becoming gravity , that the Dominie would conduct him to some place where he might have a view of the hea- venly bodies . The schoolmaster , without further an- swer , rose and threw ...
... hour and minute of the birth , re- quested , with becoming gravity , that the Dominie would conduct him to some place where he might have a view of the hea- venly bodies . The schoolmaster , without further an- swer , rose and threw ...
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... hour of night there were lights moving upon the shore , probably occasioned by the un- loading a smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man , which was lying in the bay . On the light being observed from the sashed door of the house , a ...
... hour of night there were lights moving upon the shore , probably occasioned by the un- loading a smuggling lugger from the Isle of Man , which was lying in the bay . On the light being observed from the sashed door of the house , a ...
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Page 85 - 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 101 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighborhood.
Page 125 - ... bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan. Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs; look 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 f that I'll...
Page 240 - 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 123 - ... noticed, that there was in her general attire, or rather in her mode of adjusting it, somewhat of a foreign costume, artfully adopted perhaps for the purpose of adding to the effect of her spells and predictions, or perhaps from some traditional notions respecting the dress of her ancestors. On this occasion, she had a large piece of red cotton cloth rolled about her head in the form of a turban, from beneath which her dark eyes flashed with uncommon lustre. Her long and tangled black hair fell...
Page 225 - 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 65 - ... 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 ! Passions wild, and follies vain. Pleasures soon exchanged for pain; Doubt, and jealousy, and fear, In the magic dance appear. Now they wax, and now they dwindle, Whirling with the whirling spindle.
Page 100 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Page 49 - 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 100 - These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature...