The Handy Volume "Waverly" ...: Guy ManneringBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... never do , good dame ! my horse is almost quite knocked up - can you not give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no ; I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life ...
... never do , good dame ! my horse is almost quite knocked up - can you not give me a night's lodgings ? " " Troth can I no ; I am a lone woman , for James he's awa to Drumshourloch fair with the year - aulds , and I daurna for my life ...
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... never turn awa naebody frae the door ; and ye'll be come in the canny moment , I'm thinking , for the laird's servant -that's no to say his body - servant , but the helper like- rade express by this e'en to fetch the houdie , and he ...
... never turn awa naebody frae the door ; and ye'll be come in the canny moment , I'm thinking , for the laird's servant -that's no to say his body - servant , but the helper like- rade express by this e'en to fetch the houdie , and he ...
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... never saw ony mysell , and we're just at the door o ' the New Place . " Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the traveller in front of a modern house of moderate size , at which his guide rapped with great ...
... never saw ony mysell , and we're just at the door o ' the New Place . " Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the traveller in front of a modern house of moderate size , at which his guide rapped with great ...
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... never before heard that he had such cases in court . Meanwhile his neighbours predicted his final ruin . Those of the higher rank , with some malignity , accounted him already a degraded brother . The lower classes seeing nothing ...
... never before heard that he had such cases in court . Meanwhile his neighbours predicted his final ruin . Those of the higher rank , with some malignity , accounted him already a degraded brother . The lower classes seeing nothing ...
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Walter Scott. never prevented their taking advantage of him on all possible occasions , turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the Laird , honest man , he'll never find it , he ...
Walter Scott. never prevented their taking advantage of him on all possible occasions , turning their cattle into his parks , stealing his wood , shooting his game , and so forth , " for the Laird , honest man , he'll never find it , he ...
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Page 26 - 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 ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 43 - 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 126 - 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 133 - 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 181 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 33 - Twist ye, twine ye! even so, Mingle 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. Twist ye, twine ye ! even so, Mingle...
Page 62 - Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs — look that your braw 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 51 - 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 50 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Page 326 - 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.