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 - 358 pages |
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... seen . Deprived of his personal and active superintendance , all his under- takings miscarried , and became either abor tive or perilous . Without a single spark of energy to meet or repel these misfor tunes , Godfrey put his faith in ...
... seen . Deprived of his personal and active superintendance , all his under- takings miscarried , and became either abor tive or perilous . Without a single spark of energy to meet or repel these misfor tunes , Godfrey put his faith in ...
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... seen on the preceding even- ing . He soon found an aperture , through which he could observe her without being himself visible ; and could not help feel- ing , that her figure , her employment , and her situation , conveyed the exact ...
... seen on the preceding even- ing . He soon found an aperture , through which he could observe her without being himself visible ; and could not help feel- ing , that her figure , her employment , and her situation , conveyed the exact ...
Page 64
... 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 64 GUY MANNERING .
... 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 64 GUY MANNERING .
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... seen only last week , and yet she has twelve bows sowing of victual ; indeed her goodman , Duncan Finniston - that's him that's gone- ( we must all die , Mr Mannering ; that's ower true ) -and , speaking of that , let us live in the ...
... seen only last week , and yet she has twelve bows sowing of victual ; indeed her goodman , Duncan Finniston - that's him that's gone- ( we must all die , Mr Mannering ; that's ower true ) -and , speaking of that , let us live in the ...
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... seen , both man and woman , perpetually drunk , cursing , blaspheming , and fighting together . " Notwithstanding the deplorable picture presented in this extract , and which Flet- cher himself , though the energetic and eloquent friend ...
... seen , both man and woman , perpetually drunk , cursing , blaspheming , and fighting together . " Notwithstanding the deplorable picture presented in this extract , and which Flet- cher himself , though the energetic and eloquent friend ...
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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 49 - 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 wat'ry 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 these 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 their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the...
Page 125 - I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret of Anjou, bestowing on her triumphant foes her keen-edged malediction, could not have turned from them with a gesture more proudly contemptuous. The Laird was clearing his voice to speak, and thrusting his hand in his pocket to find...
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 84 - And then the justice. In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut. Full ot wise saws and modern instances, And so he plays his part.
Page 64 - 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 240 - I'll be no burden — I have thought how to prevent that. But, as Ruth said unto Naomi, ' Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to depart from thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou dwellest I will dwell ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God shall be my God. Where thou 117 diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death do part thee and me.
Page 236 - My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now take it unto thee. Give me thy gold, good John o' the Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be. Then John he did him to record draw, And John he caste him a gods.pennie; But for every pounde that John agreed, The land, I wis, was well worth three.
Page 124 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.