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 |
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... Mervyn of the contents of his purse , if he has not means of defence , or the skill and courage to use them , the assizes at Lancaster or Carlisle will do him justice by tucking up the robber : - Yet who will say I am bound to wait for ...
... Mervyn of the contents of his purse , if he has not means of defence , or the skill and courage to use them , the assizes at Lancaster or Carlisle will do him justice by tucking up the robber : - Yet who will say I am bound to wait for ...
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... MERVYN . " " P. S. You will naturally wish to know if I have the least guess concerning the person of the serenader . In truth , I have none . There is no young gentleman of these parts , who might be in rank or for- tune a match for ...
... MERVYN . " " P. S. You will naturally wish to know if I have the least guess concerning the person of the serenader . In truth , I have none . There is no young gentleman of these parts , who might be in rank or for- tune a match for ...
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... Mervyn - hall , is a d - d cake - house , the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions , poets , players , painters , mu- sicians , who come to rave , and recite , and madden , about this picturesque land of ours . It is paying ...
... Mervyn - hall , is a d - d cake - house , the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions , poets , players , painters , mu- sicians , who come to rave , and recite , and madden , about this picturesque land of ours . It is paying ...
Page 264
... direc tion , and neither " stinted nor staid " until he arrived at the mansion of his friend Mr Mervyn , upon the banks of one of the lakes of Westmoreland , CHAPTER XVII . " Heaven first , in its mercy 264 GUY MANNERING .
... direc tion , and neither " stinted nor staid " until he arrived at the mansion of his friend Mr Mervyn , upon the banks of one of the lakes of Westmoreland , CHAPTER XVII . " Heaven first , in its mercy 264 GUY MANNERING .
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... nearly eighteen . To her faithful eye were ad- dressed those formidable quires which is- sued forth from Mervyn Hall , on the wings VOL , I. M of the post , while Miss Mannering was a guest GUY MANNERING . 265 CHAPTER XVII. ...
... nearly eighteen . To her faithful eye were ad- dressed those formidable quires which is- sued forth from Mervyn Hall , on the wings VOL , I. M of the post , while Miss Mannering was a guest GUY MANNERING . 265 CHAPTER XVII. ...
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ancient answered appearance Arthur Mervyn ASTROLOGER auld Aweel bairn Brown castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering daughter Deacon dear Derncleugh Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door dress Dunbog Ellan estate of Ellangowan eyes father fear feelings flageolet frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin GUY MANNERING gypsey hame Harry Bertram Hazlewood head heard honour hope horse hour 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 Morlan nering never night occasion ower parlour person poor precentor puir racter reader ride round ruins scene Scotland seemed servant sloop sloop of war stranger supposed sure tell ther there's thing thought tion turned waur weel window wish wood Woodbourne ye'll young lady young Laird
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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 49 - 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 65 - 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 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...
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 84 - 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 48 - 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 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 watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
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.