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... attend his reception , and could not escape his eye . The lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At ...
... attend his reception , and could not escape his eye . The lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the first time , though they had been ten years married . At ...
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... attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was , to extort an ejaculation of ' Prodigious ! ' or ' Very facetious ! ' pronounced syllabically , but ...
... attended this unusual cachinnation . The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was , to extort an ejaculation of ' Prodigious ! ' or ' Very facetious ! ' pronounced syllabically , but ...
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... 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 . Twist ye , twine ...
... 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 . Twist ye , twine ...
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... attend- ing his character , yet aiming to bear it down by the affectation of a careless and hardy familiarity . Mannering briefly rejected his proffered civilities ; and , after a surly good - morning , Hatteraick retired with the gipsy ...
... attend- ing his character , yet aiming to bear it down by the affectation of a careless and hardy familiarity . Mannering briefly rejected his proffered civilities ; and , after a surly good - morning , Hatteraick retired with the gipsy ...
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... attending the situation which an hour before he had thought worthy of so much envy . Here was a country gentleman , whose most estimable quality seemed his perfect good - nature , secretly fretting himself and murmuring against others ...
... attending the situation which an hour before he had thought worthy of so much envy . Here was a country gentleman , whose most estimable quality seemed his perfect good - nature , secretly fretting himself and murmuring against others ...
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Allonby answered appearance astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlie's Hope circumstances Colonel Mannering Counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh devil deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door e'en Ellangowan eyes father favour feelings fellow frae Frank Kennedy gentleman gipsy Glossin gude Guy Mannering hand 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 naething never night observed occasion ower person Pleydell poor Portanferry postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside 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
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Page 333 - 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 204 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 19 - ... 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 wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 96 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 34 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 19 - For fable is Love's world, his home, his birthplace : Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion...
Page 246 - ... the ancient and now forgotten pastime of high jinks* This game was played in several different ways. Most frequently the dice were thrown by the * See High Jinks. Note 1. company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain for a time a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine verses in a particular order. If they departed from the characters assigned, or if their memory proved treacherous in the repetition, they incurred forfeits, which...
Page 90 - To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss...
Page 141 - I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard. I had them a' regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi' stots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever cam wi...
Page 96 - I'll be no burden ; I have thought how to prevent that. But, as Euth said unto Naomi, " Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to depart from thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou dwellest I will dwell ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God shall be my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death do part thee and me.