Guy Mannering; or, The astrologer. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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... body , education . should aye be minded . I have six terriers at hame , forbye other dogs . There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard , and young Pepper and young Mustard , and little Pepper and little Mustard- I had them a ' regularly ...
... body , education . should aye be minded . I have six terriers at hame , forbye other dogs . There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard , and young Pepper and young Mustard , and little Pepper and little Mustard- I had them a ' regularly ...
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... body on earth - un- less ( her eye directed to the pocket - book , but with a feeling of natural propriety which made the inference the most delicate possible , ) unless there was ony other way » -- Brown saw , and estimated at its due ...
... body on earth - un- less ( her eye directed to the pocket - book , but with a feeling of natural propriety which made the inference the most delicate possible , ) unless there was ony other way » -- Brown saw , and estimated at its due ...
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... body do a thing better than him- sell . » " - « Aye , " said another , « he's sair shamed o ' him- sell , else he would have been up here the night Gabriel likes a little o ' the gude thing as weel - as ony o ' us . » « Is he of this ...
... body do a thing better than him- sell . » " - « Aye , " said another , « he's sair shamed o ' him- sell , else he would have been up here the night Gabriel likes a little o ' the gude thing as weel - as ony o ' us . » « Is he of this ...
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... body kens him by ony other name - But it's no right to rin him down ahint his back , for he's a fell fox - hunter , though he's may - be no just sae clever as some o ' the folk here awa wi ' the waster . » After some further desultory ...
... body kens him by ony other name - But it's no right to rin him down ahint his back , for he's a fell fox - hunter , though he's may - be no just sae clever as some o ' the folk here awa wi ' the waster . » After some further desultory ...
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... body else - and that would be a sair wish to some folk . » I must not omit to mention , that our traveller left his trusty attendant Wasp to be a guest at Charlies - hope for a season . He foresaw that he might prove a troublesome ...
... body else - and that would be a sair wish to some folk . » I must not omit to mention , that our traveller left his trusty attendant Wasp to be a guest at Charlies - hope for a season . He foresaw that he might prove a troublesome ...
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Page 77 - 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 62 - 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 167 - Give me a cup of sack, to make mine eyes look red, that it may be thought I have wept ; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in king Cambyses
Page 154 - Zounds! sir; you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.
Page 184 - But this poor farce has neither truth, nor art, To please the fancy or to touch the heart. Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene; Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold, unmeaning gloom around. PARISH REGISTER. "YouR majesty," said Mannering, laughing, "has solemnized your abdication by an act of mercy and charity. That fellow will scarce think of going to law.
Page 31 - Britain knows not; give, ye Britons, then Your sportive fury, pitiless, to pour Loose on the nightly robber of the fold ; Him, from his craggy winding haunts unearth'd, Let all the thunder of the chase pursue.
Page 192 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Page 108 - What, art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?