Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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Page iii
... person , according to old John MacKinlay's account , while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway , was benighted . With difficulty he found his way to a country - seat , where , with the hospitality of the time and country , he was ...
... person , according to old John MacKinlay's account , while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway , was benighted . With difficulty he found his way to a country - seat , where , with the hospitality of the time and country , he was ...
Page vii
... some votaries .. One of the most remarkable believers in that forgotten and despised science , was a late eminent professor of the art of legerdemain . One would have thought that a person of this description ought , GUY MANNERING . vii.
... some votaries .. One of the most remarkable believers in that forgotten and despised science , was a late eminent professor of the art of legerdemain . One would have thought that a person of this description ought , GUY MANNERING . vii.
Page viii
Walter Scott. have thought that a person of this description ought , from his knowledge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the ...
Walter Scott. have thought that a person of this description ought , from his knowledge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the ...
Page ix
... person , in one of the early Numbers of Blackwood's Magazine , to the following purpose : - " My father remembered old Jean Gordon of Yetholm , who had great sway among her tribe . She was quite a Meg Merrilies , and possessed the ...
... person , in one of the early Numbers of Blackwood's Magazine , to the following purpose : - " My father remembered old Jean Gordon of Yetholm , who had great sway among her tribe . She was quite a Meg Merrilies , and possessed the ...
Page x
... person than be cared to risk in such society . However , being naturally a bold , lively spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing , and sat down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry , pigs ...
... person than be cared to risk in such society . However , being naturally a bold , lively spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing , and sat down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry , pigs ...
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Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazle Hazlewood-house head heard honour horse Julia justice justice of peace Kennedy Kippletringan Laird Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner racter recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed shew Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker