Guy Mannering or the astrologerGebbie, 1896 |
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... thought our hero , ' would life glide on in such a retirement ! On the one hand , the striking remnants of ancient grandeur , with the secret consciousness of family pride which they inspire ; on the other , enough of modern elegance ...
... thought our hero , ' would life glide on in such a retirement ! On the one hand , the striking remnants of ancient grandeur , with the secret consciousness of family pride which they inspire ; on the other , enough of modern elegance ...
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... thought linked strangely on to another in the concatenation of worthy Mr. Bertram's ideas , Like orient pearls at random strung ; and therefore , before the current of his associations had drifted farther from the point he had left , he ...
... thought linked strangely on to another in the concatenation of worthy Mr. Bertram's ideas , Like orient pearls at random strung ; and therefore , before the current of his associations had drifted farther from the point he had left , he ...
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... thought within himself that the worshipful bench suffered no great deprivation from wanting the assistance of his good- humoured landlord . Mr. Bertram had now hit upon one of the few subjects on which he felt sore , and went 30 ...
... thought within himself that the worshipful bench suffered no great deprivation from wanting the assistance of his good- humoured landlord . Mr. Bertram had now hit upon one of the few subjects on which he felt sore , and went 30 ...
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... 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 for causes which , compared with any real evil in ...
... 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 for causes which , compared with any real evil in ...
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... thought it was a dignity to which he was well entitled , and that it had been withheld from him by malice prepense . But there is an old and true Scotch proverb , ' Fools should not have chapping sticks ' ; that is , weapons of offence ...
... thought it was a dignity to which he was well entitled , and that it had been withheld from him by malice prepense . But there is an old and true Scotch proverb , ' Fools should not have chapping sticks ' ; that is , weapons of offence ...
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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.