The Handy Volume "Waverley" ...: Guy ManneringBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... interests were accu- mulated upon capitals , movable bonds became heritable , and law charges were heaped upon all ; though Ellan- gowan possessed so little the spirit of a litigant , that he was on two occasions charged to make payment ...
... interests were accu- mulated upon capitals , movable bonds became heritable , and law charges were heaped upon all ; though Ellan- gowan possessed so little the spirit of a litigant , that he was on two occasions charged to make payment ...
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... interest at the last election ; and because I chose to go with my own blood and third cousin , the Laird of Balruddery , they keepit me off the roll of freeholders ; and now there comes a new nomination of justices , and I am left out ...
... interest at the last election ; and because I chose to go with my own blood and third cousin , the Laird of Balruddery , they keepit me off the roll of freeholders ; and now there comes a new nomination of justices , and I am left out ...
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... interest in the fair trade , as they called the pursuit of these contraband adventurers . This person was natural son to a gentleman of good family , owing to which circumstance , and to his being of a jolly convivial disposition , and ...
... interest in the fair trade , as they called the pursuit of these contraband adventurers . This person was natural son to a gentleman of good family , owing to which circumstance , and to his being of a jolly convivial disposition , and ...
Page 64
... interest of Jenny Cairns's , and deil a tenant's been at the Place yet wi ' a boddle of rent , nor will not till Candlemas - but , speaking of Frank Kennedy , I dare say he'll be here the day , for he was away round to Wigton to warn a ...
... interest of Jenny Cairns's , and deil a tenant's been at the Place yet wi ' a boddle of rent , nor will not till Candlemas - but , speaking of Frank Kennedy , I dare say he'll be here the day , for he was away round to Wigton to warn a ...
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... interest . " That's maybe no sae canny to tell , " said the pre- centor , with solemnity . Upon being urged , however , to speak out , he preluded with two or three large puffs of tobacco - smoke , and out of the cloudy sanctuary which ...
... interest . " That's maybe no sae canny to tell , " said the pre- centor , with solemnity . Upon being urged , however , to speak out , he preluded with two or three large puffs of tobacco - smoke , and out of the cloudy sanctuary which ...
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Common terms and phrases
Allonby answered appearance Astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle CHAP character Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellan Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gowan gude Guy Mannering hand head heard honour hope horse Jabos Julia justice Kennedy Kippletringan Laird land 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 naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker
Popular passages
Page 24 - 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 watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Page 49 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Page 110 - It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss...
Page 31 - ... 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.
Page 61 - ... 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 * that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.
Page 308 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Page 156 - Some, indeed, of belles lettres, poems, plays, or memoirs he tossed indignantly aside, with the implied censure of " psha, " or " frivolous" ; but the greater and bulkier part of the collection bore a very different character. The deceased prelate, a divine of the old and deeplylearned cast, had loaded his shelves with volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid. Those ample clasps of solid metal...