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 - Scotland - 358 pages |
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Page 5
While sufficient day - light remained to shew the dress and appearance of a
gentleman , these cross interrogatories were usually put in the form of a case
supposed , as , “ Ye'll hae been at the auld abbey o ' Halycross , sir ? there's
mony ...
While sufficient day - light remained to shew the dress and appearance of a
gentleman , these cross interrogatories were usually put in the form of a case
supposed , as , “ Ye'll hae been at the auld abbey o ' Halycross , sir ? there's
mony ...
Page 20
At the skir . mish of Dunkeld , 1689 , he was shot dead by a Cameronian with a
silver button ( be . ing supposed to have proof from the Evil One against lead and
steel , ) and his grave is still called the " Wicked Laird's Lair . ” His son , Lewis ...
At the skir . mish of Dunkeld , 1689 , he was shot dead by a Cameronian with a
silver button ( be . ing supposed to have proof from the Evil One against lead and
steel , ) and his grave is still called the " Wicked Laird's Lair . ” His son , Lewis ...
Page 52
Grave and studious men were loth to relinquish the calculations which had earl
become the principal objects of their studies , and felt reluctant to descend from
the predominating height to which a supposed insight into futurity , by the power
of ...
Grave and studious men were loth to relinquish the calculations which had earl
become the principal objects of their studies , and felt reluctant to descend from
the predominating height to which a supposed insight into futurity , by the power
of ...
Page 75
... I should have supposed ” Ah , the revenue - lads ” -for Mr Bertram never
embraced a general or abstract idea , and his notion of the revenue was
personified in the coinmissioners , surveyors , comptrollers , and GUY
MANNERING , 75.
... I should have supposed ” Ah , the revenue - lads ” -for Mr Bertram never
embraced a general or abstract idea , and his notion of the revenue was
personified in the coinmissioners , surveyors , comptrollers , and GUY
MANNERING , 75.
Page 82
Mannering , however , was determined in his own mind , not to expose the ' infant
to the inconveniences which might have arisen from his being supposed the
object of evil predietion . He therefore delivered the paper into Mr Bertram's hand
...
Mannering , however , was determined in his own mind , not to expose the ' infant
to the inconveniences which might have arisen from his being supposed the
object of evil predietion . He therefore delivered the paper into Mr Bertram's hand
...
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Page 222 - 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 238 - 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 47 - 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, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend ; and to the lover Yonder they move ; from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down ; and even at this day 'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings every thing that's fair.
Page 63 - 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...
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Page 83 - 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 82 - And then the justice. In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut. Full ot wise saws and modern instances, And so he plays his part.
Page 46 - To the left the woods advanced far into the ocean, waving in the moonlight along ground of an undulating and varied form, and presenting those varieties of light and shade, and that interesting combination of glade and thicket, upon which the eye delights to rest, charmed with what it sees, yet curious to pierce still deeper into the intricacies of the woodland scenery. Above rolled the planets, each, by its own liquid orbit of light, distinguished from the inferior ot more distant stars.
Page 47 - 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 238 - 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.
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| Title | Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1 Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Contributor | James Ballantyne and Co |
| Publisher | James Ballantyne and Company For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh., 1815 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 358 pages |
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