Guy Mannering Or The AstrologerA. and C. Black, 1862 - 313 pages |
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Page vii
... received and admitted by Bacon himself , does not now retain influence over the general mind sufficient even to constitute the mainspring of a romance . Besides , it occurred , that to do justice to such a subject would have required ...
... received and admitted by Bacon himself , does not now retain influence over the general mind sufficient even to constitute the mainspring of a romance . Besides , it occurred , that to do justice to such a subject would have required ...
Page ix
... received at the farmhouse of Lochside , near Yetholm , she had care- fully abstained from committing any depredations on the farmer's property . But her sons ( nine in number ) had not , it seems , the same delicacy , and stole a brood ...
... received at the farmhouse of Lochside , near Yetholm , she had care- fully abstained from committing any depredations on the farmer's property . But her sons ( nine in number ) had not , it seems , the same delicacy , and stole a brood ...
Page 27
... received rather as an humble friend than as an object of charity , was sent to the neighbouring workhouse . The decrepit dame , who travelled round the parish upon a hand - barrow , circulating from house to house like • a bad shilling ...
... received rather as an humble friend than as an object of charity , was sent to the neighbouring workhouse . The decrepit dame , who travelled round the parish upon a hand - barrow , circulating from house to house like • a bad shilling ...
Page 29
... received large accessions from among those whom famine , oppression , or the sword of war , had deprived of the ordi- nary means of subsistence . They lost , in a great measure , by this intermixture , the national character of ...
... received large accessions from among those whom famine , oppression , or the sword of war , had deprived of the ordi- nary means of subsistence . They lost , in a great measure , by this intermixture , the national character of ...
Page 38
... received , succeeded in clapping the broad arrow upon the articles , and bearing them off in triumph to the next custom - house . Dirk Hatteraick vowed , in Dutch , German , and English , a deep and fuil revenge , both against the ...
... received , succeeded in clapping the broad arrow upon the articles , and bearing them off in triumph to the next custom - house . Dirk Hatteraick vowed , in Dutch , German , and English , a deep and fuil revenge , both against the ...
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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