The Waverley Novels...Harper & brothers, 1907 |
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... passed to a distant branch of the family . He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room . I fear from your looks , ' said the father , ' that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the ...
... passed to a distant branch of the family . He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room . I fear from your looks , ' said the father , ' that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the ...
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... passed as the father could have wished . A young Nazarite could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was with- held from his observation : he only heard what was pure in precept , he only witnessed what was worthy ...
... passed as the father could have wished . A young Nazarite could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was with- held from his observation : he only heard what was pure in precept , he only witnessed what was worthy ...
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... passed along the dreary morass . To these was now joined the distant roar of the ocean , towards which the traveller seemed to be fast approaching . This was no circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay ...
... passed along the dreary morass . To these was now joined the distant roar of the ocean , towards which the traveller seemed to be fast approaching . This was no circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay ...
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... passed . Finally , he led the way through a wicket into something which had still the air of an avenue , though many of the trees were felled . The roar of the ocean was now near and full , and the moon , which began to make her ...
... passed . Finally , he led the way through a wicket into something which had still the air of an avenue , though many of the trees were felled . The roar of the ocean was now near and full , and the moon , which began to make her ...
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... passed over without anything remarkable ; and on the morning of that which followed the traveller mounted his palfrey , bade a courteous adieu to his hospitable landlord and to his clerical attendant , repeated his good wishes for the ...
... passed over without anything remarkable ; and on the morning of that which followed the traveller mounted his palfrey , bade a courteous adieu to his hospitable landlord and to his clerical attendant , repeated his good wishes for the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Allonby answered appearance arms 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 fear 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 Portanferry portmanteau postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside smugglers stranger suppose tell there's thought turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker
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Página 90 - 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?
Página 5 - Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here, In quantity equals not one of yours : See how this river comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 50 - So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret of Anjou, bestowing on her triumphant foes her keen-edged malediction, could not have turned from them with a gesture more proudly contemptuous. The Laird was clearing his voice to speak, and thrusting his hand in his pocket to find...
Página 138 - 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.
Página 19 - 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...
Página 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...
Página 256 - ... was occasionally referred to, and the enunciation, which at first seemed imperfect and embarrassed, became, as the preacher warmed in his progress, animated and distinct ; and although the discourse could not be quoted as a correct specimen of pulpit eloquence, yet Mannering had seldom heard so much learning, metaphysical acuteness, and energy of argument, brought into the service of Christianity.
Página 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.