Guy Mannering: Or, The AstrologerWest and Richardson, 1815 - Scotland |
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... length , to complete his perplexity , he arrived at a place where the road divided into two . If there had been light to consult the reliques of a finger - post which stood there , it would have been of little avail , as , according to ...
... length , to complete his perplexity , he arrived at a place where the road divided into two . If there had been light to consult the reliques of a finger - post which stood there , it would have been of little avail , as , according to ...
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... length , the joyful annunciation that the lady had presented her husband with a fine boy , and was ( of course ) as well as could be expected , broke off this intercourse . Mr. Bertram hastened to the lady's apartment , Meg Merrilies ...
... length , the joyful annunciation that the lady had presented her husband with a fine boy , and was ( of course ) as well as could be expected , broke off this intercourse . Mr. Bertram hastened to the lady's apartment , Meg Merrilies ...
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... length , the same month , and day of the month , seemed assigned as the period of peril to both . It will be readily believed , that , in mentioning this circumstance , we lay no weight whatever up- on the pretended information thus ...
... length , the same month , and day of the month , seemed assigned as the period of peril to both . It will be readily believed , that , in mentioning this circumstance , we lay no weight whatever up- on the pretended information thus ...
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... length , resolved plainly to tell him the judgment which he had formed , at the same time acquainting him with the futility of the rules of art on which he had proceed- ed . With this resolution he walked out upon the terrace . If the ...
... length , resolved plainly to tell him the judgment which he had formed , at the same time acquainting him with the futility of the rules of art on which he had proceed- ed . With this resolution he walked out upon the terrace . If the ...
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... length any speech which Mannering had yet heard him utter . The tea , which of course belonged to the noble Captain Hatteraick's trade , was pronounced excellent.- Still Mannering hinted , though with due delicacy , at the risk of ...
... length any speech which Mannering had yet heard him utter . The tea , which of course belonged to the noble Captain Hatteraick's trade , was pronounced excellent.- Still Mannering hinted , though with due delicacy , at the risk of ...
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answered appearance astrologer auld Aweel bairn better Brown called canting language castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering daughter Deacon dear dearest Matilda Derncleugh Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door e'en father favour fear feelings flageolet fortune frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin gude GUY MANNERING gypsy hand head heard honour hope horse Jabos Jock Julia Kippletringan land length light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun ment Merrilies Mervyn mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle mutchkin naething never night observed occasion ower person poor precentor rendered ride road round ruins scene Scotland seemed seen servant side sloop of war spirits stranger sure tell there's thing thought tion traveller turned walk Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young lady
Popular passages
Page 185 - The close-press'd leaves unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page, On the broad back the stubborn ridges roll'd, Where yet the title stands in tarnish'd gold.
Page 70 - ... their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock 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...
Page 26 - 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 35 - 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. Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle human...
Page 129 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Page 26 - 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...
Page 56 - ... 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 neighbourhood.
Page 70 - 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 ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.
Page 70 - 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.
Page 66 - He left the executive part of the business to the officers of the law, under the immediate direction of Frank Kennedy, a supervisor, or ridingofficer, belonging to the excise, who had of late become intimate at the Place, and of whom we shall have more to say in the next chapter. Mr. Bertram himself chose that day to make a visit to a friend at some distance.