Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 3James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - Astrologers - 358 pages |
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... there , if possi- ble , until he should receive letters from his regimental friends , and remittances . from his agent ; and then to resume his own character , and offer to young Hazle- wood and his friends any explanation or ...
... there , if possi- ble , until he should receive letters from his regimental friends , and remittances . from his agent ; and then to resume his own character , and offer to young Hazle- wood and his friends any explanation or ...
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... a cargo ta'en - vera weel , that was their luck ; - there another carried clean through , that was mine - na , na ! hawks should na pike out hawks ' e'en . " " And this Colonel Mannering ? " " Troth , GUY MANNERING . 5.
... a cargo ta'en - vera weel , that was their luck ; - there another carried clean through , that was mine - na , na ! hawks should na pike out hawks ' e'en . " " And this Colonel Mannering ? " " Troth , GUY MANNERING . 5.
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... usually remained for a month or two sticking in the postmaster's window , among pamphlets , gingerbread , rolls , or ballads , according to the trade ་ ་ Be- which the said postmaster exercised . sides , there 10 GUY MANNERING .
... usually remained for a month or two sticking in the postmaster's window , among pamphlets , gingerbread , rolls , or ballads , according to the trade ་ ་ Be- which the said postmaster exercised . sides , there 10 GUY MANNERING .
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... there if you like . " : " I should like it of all things . I must visit that ruin before I continue my jour ney . " " Aye , it's a queer auld bit ; and that highest tower is a gude land - mark as far as Ramsay in Man , and the Point of ...
... there if you like . " : " I should like it of all things . I must visit that ruin before I continue my jour ney . " " Aye , it's a queer auld bit ; and that highest tower is a gude land - mark as far as Ramsay in Man , and the Point of ...
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... There's a place where their berlins and gallies , as they ca'd them , used to lie in lang syne , but it's no used ... there though . " While he thus spoke , they pulled round a point of rock , and found a very small harbour , partly ...
... There's a place where their berlins and gallies , as they ca'd them , used to lie in lang syne , but it's no used ... there though . " While he thus spoke , they pulled round a point of rock , and found a very small harbour , partly ...
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acromion process Allonby ance answered arms auld Aweel Baronet better called Captain carriage castle Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor custom-house dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door eyes father favour feelings fire follow frae Glossin gude GUY MANNERING gypsey hand Hazlewood of Hazlewood Hazlewood-house hear heard heart Henry Bertram honour horse Julia kenn'd Kippletringan ladies Laird late Ellangowan Liddesdale light look Lucy Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun mean Meg Merrilies ment Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning murder neighbour never night ower person Pleydell Portanferry prisoner recollection respect ruin Sampson Scotland Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers spect suppose tailzie tell there's thing thought tion tram turn Vanbeest Brown voice weel wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazle young Hazlewood younker zlewood
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Page 133 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 76 - A prison is a house of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right, Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 39 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place;— [To EDGAR. And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side: — You are of the commission, Sit you too.
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Page 33 - I remember the tune well,' he says, 'though I cannot guess what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory.' He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune awoke the corresponding associations of a damsel.