Waverley Novels, Том 9Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, and Whittaker & Company London., 1819 |
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... castle wall ; nor spend your breath in contending in swiftness with a fleet steed ; and let those weigh the Tales of my Landlord , who shall bring with them the scales of candour cleansed from the rust of prejudice by the hands of ...
... castle wall ; nor spend your breath in contending in swiftness with a fleet steed ; and let those weigh the Tales of my Landlord , who shall bring with them the scales of candour cleansed from the rust of prejudice by the hands of ...
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... castle of Ellieslaw , until the brow of the hill hid the party from his sight . The ladies , meantime , jested with Miss Vere on the strange interview they had just had with the far - famed Wizard of the Moor . " Isabella has all the ...
... castle of Ellieslaw , until the brow of the hill hid the party from his sight . The ladies , meantime , jested with Miss Vere on the strange interview they had just had with the far - famed Wizard of the Moor . " Isabella has all the ...
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... castle that dark , stiff , and stately Sir Frederick Langley , that is so great a favourite with your father , and so little a favourite of yours . I protest I shall be obliged to the Wizard as long as I live , if it were only for the ...
... castle that dark , stiff , and stately Sir Frederick Langley , that is so great a favourite with your father , and so little a favourite of yours . I protest I shall be obliged to the Wizard as long as I live , if it were only for the ...
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... Castle . " " And adieu to Ellieslaw - Castle , with all my heart , " said her friend , " if I once saw you fairly out of it , and settled under some kinder protector than he whom nature has given you . O , if my poor father had been in ...
... Castle . " " And adieu to Ellieslaw - Castle , with all my heart , " said her friend , " if I once saw you fairly out of it , and settled under some kinder protector than he whom nature has given you . O , if my poor father had been in ...
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... castle of Ellieslaw . " " And there stands Sir Frederick Langley at the gate , waiting to assist the ladies from their palfreys . I would as lief touch a toad ; I will disappoint him , and take old Horsington the groom for my master of ...
... castle of Ellieslaw . " " And there stands Sir Frederick Langley at the gate , waiting to assist the ladies from their palfreys . I would as lief touch a toad ; I will disappoint him , and take old Horsington the groom for my master of ...
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answered arms auld bairn baith Bellenden Black Dwarf bonny Bothwell Burley called canna castle companion Cuddie daugh David Ritchie deil dinna door e'en Earnscliff Ellieslaw Elshie exclaimed eyes father followed frae gang gentleman Grace Armstrong gude hame hand head hear heard heart Heugh-foot hinny Hobbie Elliot Hobbie's honour horse I'se Ilderton Isabella JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM labour Lady Margaret Laird leave leddy look mair Mareschal maun Mause ment Milnwood misanthropy Miss Vere moor morning Morton mother Mucklestane-Moor mutchkin mysell ne'er neighbours never night Old Mortality ower party person poor popinjay puir Ratcliffe replied sae muckle Scotland seemed siller Sir Frederick Langley Solitary speak stood sure sword thae thee ther there's thing thou Tillietudlem tion weel Westburnflat whig words ye hae ye'll young Earnscliff yoursell
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Страница 60 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon ; and let men say, we be men of good government, being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
Страница 335 - Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music...
Страница 82 - Gar warn the water, braid and wide, Gar warn it sune and hastilie ! They that winna ride for Telfer's kye, Let them never look in the face o...
Страница 62 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Страница xx - There was nothing very uncommon about his dress. He usually wore an old slouched hat when he went abroad ; and when at home a sort of cowl or night-cap. He never wore shoes, being unable to adapt them to his misshapen fin-like feet, but always had both feet and legs quite concealed, and wrapt up with pieces of cloth.
Страница 66 - Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one ! They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death. Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock...
Страница 316 - We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Страница 316 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Страница 240 - No newly-erected tomb disturbs the sober serenity of our reflections by reminding us of recent calamity, and no rank-springing grass forces upon our imagination the recollection, that it owes its dark luxuriance to the foul and festering remnants of mortality which ferment beneath. The daisy which sprinkles the sod, and the harebell which hangs over it, derive their pure nourishment from the dew of heaven, and their growth impresses us with no degrading or disgusting recollections. Death has indeed...
Страница xviii - ... poor unfortunate • man's name was David Ritchie, a native of Tweeddale. He was the son of a labourer in the slate-quarries of Stobo, and must have been born in the mis-shapen form which he exhibited, though he sometimes imputed it to ill-usage when in infancy. He was bred a brush-maker at Edinburgh, and had wandered to several places, working at his trade, from all which he was chased by the disagreeable attention which his hideous singularity of form and face attracted wherever he came.