Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 - Astrologers - 358 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 7
Page 59
... commanded a noble prospect . The dreary scene of desolation through which Mannering's road had lain on the preceding evening was excluded from the view by some rising grounds , and the land- scape shewed a pleasing alternation of hill ...
... commanded a noble prospect . The dreary scene of desolation through which Mannering's road had lain on the preceding evening was excluded from the view by some rising grounds , and the land- scape shewed a pleasing alternation of hill ...
Page 91
... commanded his trusty aid - de - camp , Domi- nie Sampson , to read aloud the commis- sion ; and at the first words , " The king has been pleased to appoint " - " Pleased ! " he exclaimed , in a transport of gratitude ; " Honest ...
... commanded his trusty aid - de - camp , Domi- nie Sampson , to read aloud the commis- sion ; and at the first words , " The king has been pleased to appoint " - " Pleased ! " he exclaimed , in a transport of gratitude ; " Honest ...
Page 103
... commanded a certain awe , which was not diminished by the consideration , that these strollers were a vindictive race , and were restrained by no check , either of fear or conscience , from taking desperate ven- geance upon those who ...
... commanded a certain awe , which was not diminished by the consideration , that these strollers were a vindictive race , and were restrained by no check , either of fear or conscience , from taking desperate ven- geance upon those who ...
Page 109
... commanded them to de- scend ; they paid no attention to his man- date : he then began to pull them down one after another ; -they resisted , passive- ly at least , each sturdy bronzed varlet making himself as heavy as he could , or ...
... commanded them to de- scend ; they paid no attention to his man- date : he then began to pull them down one after another ; -they resisted , passive- ly at least , each sturdy bronzed varlet making himself as heavy as he could , or ...
Page 134
... commanded the most extensive outlook , they saw a lugger , with all her canvass crowded , standing across the bay , close- ly pursued by a sloop of war , that kept firing upon the chase from her bows , which the lugger returned with her ...
... commanded the most extensive outlook , they saw a lugger , with all her canvass crowded , standing across the bay , close- ly pursued by a sloop of war , that kept firing upon the chase from her bows , which the lugger returned with her ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ancient answered appearance Arthur Mervyn astrology auld Aweel bairn Brown called castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering daugh daughter Deacon dear Derncleugh Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellan estate of Ellangowan eyes father fear feelings flageolet frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin GUY MANNERING gypsey hame Harry Bertram Hazlewood head heard Heir of Linne honour hope horse judicial astrology Julia Kippletringan Laird of Ellangowan land landlady letter look lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan Mannering's Matilda maun ment Merrilies Mervyn Miss Bertram Miss Lucy Miss Mannering nering never night occasion ower parlour person poor precentor puir racter reader ride round ruins scene Scotland seemed servant sloop sloop of war stranger sure tell ther there's thing thought tion turned waur weel window wish wood Woodbourne ye'll young lady young Laird
Popular passages
Page 49 - 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 wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Page 224 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. 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?
Page 240 - 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 85 - 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 101 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighborhood.
Page 124 - The Laird made no answer, but continued to look at the figure which was thus perched above his path. "Ride your ways," said the gypsey, "ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram! — This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths— see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that.
Page 240 - I'll be no burden — I have thought how to prevent that. But, as Ruth 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 117 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.
Page 280 - With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame : Men watch'd the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make.
Page 325 - Love Can fortune's strong impediments remove ; Nor is it strange that worth should wed to worth. The pride of genius with the pride of birth.
Page 124 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.