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Página viii
... seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moonlight wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health and the stability of his mind . The Astrologer was consulted by letter , and ...
... seemed involuntary , broken sleep , moonlight wanderings , and a melancholy for which he could assign no reason , seemed to threaten at once his bodily health and the stability of his mind . The Astrologer was consulted by letter , and ...
Página ix
... seemed by some emanation of the Evil Principle , exhorting him , like the wicked wife of Job , to curse God and die . The time at length arrived when he was to perform what was then thought a long and somewhat perilous journey , to the ...
... seemed by some emanation of the Evil Principle , exhorting him , like the wicked wife of Job , to curse God and die . The time at length arrived when he was to perform what was then thought a long and somewhat perilous journey , to the ...
Página x
... seemed determined to drive him to despair . As he combated these horrible recollections with distracted feelings , but with a resolved mind , he became aware that his arguments were answered by the sophistry of another , and that the ...
... seemed determined to drive him to despair . As he combated these horrible recollections with distracted feelings , but with a resolved mind , he became aware that his arguments were answered by the sophistry of another , and that the ...
Página xxii
... seemed unfavourable . But there was a person in court who knew well both who did and who did not commit the crime . This was the Caird of Barullion , who , thrusting him- self up to the bar near the place where Bargally was standing ...
... seemed unfavourable . But there was a person in court who knew well both who did and who did not commit the crime . This was the Caird of Barullion , who , thrusting him- self up to the bar near the place where Bargally was standing ...
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... seemed to proceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope , how- ever , was not speedily accomplished , and Mannering , whose im ...
... seemed to proceed at a somewhat livelier pace than before , affording thereby a hope that he knew he was drawing near to his quarters for the evening . This hope , how- ever , was not speedily accomplished , and Mannering , whose im ...
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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.