Guy ManneringJ.M. Dent and Sons, 1912 - 427 pages |
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Page 16
... Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country , where a certain portion of ...
... Sampson , the reader may easily suppose that a poor modest humble scholar , who has won his way through the classics , yet has fallen to leeward in the voyage of life , is no uncommon personage in a country , where a certain portion of ...
Page 17
... Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his determination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the ... Sampson's real story , in which there is neither romantic incident nor sentimental passion ; but which , perhaps , from the ...
... Sampson uses to Miss Bertram , and professed his determination not to leave her . Accordingly , roused to the ... Sampson's real story , in which there is neither romantic incident nor sentimental passion ; but which , perhaps , from the ...
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... Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation as a pedagogue , Dominie Samp- son . He was of low birth , but ... Sampson the ridicule of all his school - companions . The same qualities secured him at Glasgow college a plentiful share ...
... Sampson , commonly called , from his occupation as a pedagogue , Dominie Samp- son . He was of low birth , but ... Sampson the ridicule of all his school - companions . The same qualities secured him at Glasgow college a plentiful share ...
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... Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even to men- tion the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad , called " Sampson's Riddle , " written upon the subject ...
... Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport . It would be endless even to men- tion the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad , called " Sampson's Riddle , " written upon the subject ...
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... Sampson , in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure . They were the first words which Mannering had heard him speak ; and as he had been watch- ing with some curiosity , when this eating ...
... Sampson , in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure . They were the first words which Mannering had heard him speak ; and as he had been watch- ing with some curiosity , when this eating ...
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