Guy Mannering; or, The astrologer. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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... There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard , and young Pepper and young Mustard , and little Pepper and little Mustard- I had them a ' regularly entered , first wi ' rottens . then wi ' ' stots or weazles - and then wi ' the tods and brocks ...
... There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard , and young Pepper and young Mustard , and little Pepper and little Mustard- I had them a ' regularly entered , first wi ' rottens . then wi ' ' stots or weazles - and then wi ' the tods and brocks ...
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... There now - I could guess that by your Southland tongue . It's very odd of these Eng- lish folk that come here , how ... there's nae help for't , but come up the morn at ony rate . -And now , gudewife , I maun ride , to get to the Liddel ...
... There now - I could guess that by your Southland tongue . It's very odd of these Eng- lish folk that come here , how ... there's nae help for't , but come up the morn at ony rate . -And now , gudewife , I maun ride , to get to the Liddel ...
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... there has been nane stirred in the Waste since Sawney Culloch , the travelling merchant , that Rowley Overdees and Jock Penny suffered for at Carlisle twa year since . There's no ane in Bewcastle would do the like o ' that now- -we be a ...
... there has been nane stirred in the Waste since Sawney Culloch , the travelling merchant , that Rowley Overdees and Jock Penny suffered for at Carlisle twa year since . There's no ane in Bewcastle would do the like o ' that now- -we be a ...
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... there had been an heir- male . " « Sold ! » echoed the gypsey , with something ! like a scream , « and wha durst buy Ellangowan that was not of Bertram's blude ? and wha could tell whether the bonny knave - bairn may not come back to ...
... there had been an heir- male . " « Sold ! » echoed the gypsey , with something ! like a scream , « and wha durst buy Ellangowan that was not of Bertram's blude ? and wha could tell whether the bonny knave - bairn may not come back to ...
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... there was an auld saugh tree that's maist blawn down , but yet its roots are in the earth , and it hangs ower the ... there's saxpence t'ye to buy half a mutchkin , instead o ' clavering about thae auld warld stories . » ― « Thanks to ...
... there was an auld saugh tree that's maist blawn down , but yet its roots are in the earth , and it hangs ower the ... there's saxpence t'ye to buy half a mutchkin , instead o ' clavering about thae auld warld stories . » ― « Thanks to ...
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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?