The Waverley Novels...Harper & brothers, 1907 |
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Página v
... present circumstances may even afford an opportunity of showing my gratitude for your hospitality . Let me only request that I may be informed of the exact minute of the birth ; and I hope to be able to put you in possession of some ...
... present circumstances may even afford an opportunity of showing my gratitude for your hospitality . Let me only request that I may be informed of the exact minute of the birth ; and I hope to be able to put you in possession of some ...
Página x
... present in the room with him in bodily shape , and , potent with spirits of a melancholy cast , was impressing upon him the desperation of his state , and urging suicide as the readiest mode to put an end to his sinful career . Amid his ...
... present in the room with him in bodily shape , and , potent with spirits of a melancholy cast , was impressing upon him the desperation of his state , and urging suicide as the readiest mode to put an end to his sinful career . Amid his ...
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... present to mortals , looking into futurity , the abyss of impenetrable darkness which it is the pleasure of the Creator it should offer to them . Were everything to happen in the ordinary train of events , the future would be subject to ...
... present to mortals , looking into futurity , the abyss of impenetrable darkness which it is the pleasure of the Creator it should offer to them . Were everything to happen in the ordinary train of events , the future would be subject to ...
Página xvi
... present , and only said , " The Lord help the innocent in a day like this ! " Her own death was accompanied with circum- stances of brutal outrage , of which poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other ...
... present , and only said , " The Lord help the innocent in a day like this ! " Her own death was accompanied with circum- stances of brutal outrage , of which poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had , among other ...
Página xvii
... present writer : 66 " The late Madge Gordon was at this time accounted the Queen of the Yetholm clans . She was , we believe , a grand- daughter of the celebrated Jean Gordon , and was said to have much resembled her in appearance . The ...
... present writer : 66 " The late Madge Gordon was at this time accounted the Queen of the Yetholm clans . She was , we believe , a grand- daughter of the celebrated Jean Gordon , and was said to have much resembled her in appearance . The ...
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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.