Guy Mannering, Or The Astrologer, Part 1 |
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... received and admitted by Bacon himself , does not now retain influence over the general mind sufficient even to constitute the main - spring 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 main - spring of a romance . Besides , it occurred , that to do justice to such a subject would have required ...
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... received at the farm - house of Lochside , near Yetholm , she had carefully abstained from com- mitting any depredations on the farmer's property . But her sons ( nine in number ) had not , it seems , the same delicacy , and stole a ...
... received at the farm - house of Lochside , near Yetholm , she had carefully abstained from com- mitting any depredations on the farmer's property . But her sons ( nine in number ) had not , it seems , the same delicacy , and stole a ...
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... received rather as an humble friend than as an object of charity , was sent to the neighbour- ing workhouse . The decrepit dame , who travelled round the parish upon a hand - barrow , circulating from house to house like a bad shil ...
... received rather as an humble friend than as an object of charity , was sent to the neighbour- ing workhouse . The decrepit dame , who travelled round the parish upon a hand - barrow , circulating from house to house like a bad shil ...
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... received large accessions from among those whom famine , oppression , or the sword of war , had deprived of the ordinary means of subsistence . They lost , in a great measure , by this inter- mixture , the national character of ...
... received large accessions from among those whom famine , oppression , or the sword of war , had deprived of the ordinary means of subsistence . They lost , in a great measure , by this inter- mixture , the national character of ...
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... received , succeeded in clapping the broad arrow upon the articles , and bearing them off in triumph to the next cus- tom - house . Dirk Hatteraick vowed , in Dutch , German , and En- glish , a deep and full revenge , both against the ...
... received , succeeded in clapping the broad arrow upon the articles , and bearing them off in triumph to the next cus- tom - house . Dirk Hatteraick vowed , in Dutch , German , and En- glish , a deep and full 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 e'en Ellangowan eyes father favour fear feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand Hazlewood-house head heard honour hope horse Jean Gordon Julia justice 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 prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thing thought tram turned voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young lady younker