Guy ManneringOxford University Press, 1912 - 549 страници |
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... light , was therefore deservedly left a prey to the Prince of Darkness . As the fated and influential hour rolled on , the terrors of the hateful Presence grew more confounding to the mortal senses of the victim , and the knot of the ...
... light , was therefore deservedly left a prey to the Prince of Darkness . As the fated and influential hour rolled on , the terrors of the hateful Presence grew more confounding to the mortal senses of the victim , and the knot of the ...
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... light glimmering through the window of a large waste barn , which had survived the farm - house to which it had once ... Light down , light down ; for ye maunna gang farther the night , and a friend's house sae near . The farmer was ...
... light glimmering through the window of a large waste barn , which had survived the farm - house to which it had once ... Light down , light down ; for ye maunna gang farther the night , and a friend's house sae near . The farmer was ...
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... light steps by his bedside , and understood they were rum- maging his clothes . When they found the money which the providence of Jean Gordon had made him retain , they held a consultation if they should take it or no ; but the ...
... light steps by his bedside , and understood they were rum- maging his clothes . When they found the money which the providence of Jean Gordon had made him retain , they held a consultation if they should take it or no ; but the ...
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... light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village of Kippletringan , where he proposed to quarter for the night ...
... light grew faint and more faint , and the morass appeared blacker and blacker , our traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village of Kippletringan , where he proposed to quarter for the night ...
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... light . Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him but the deep cry of the bog- blitter , or bull - of - the - bog , a large species of bittern , and the sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass . To these was now ...
... light . Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him but the deep cry of the bog- blitter , or bull - of - the - bog , a large species of bittern , and the sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass . To these was now ...
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Страница 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?
Страница 77 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too. BEN JONSON.
Страница 90 - 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...
Страница 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 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 were either compounded...
Страница 256 - I am a member of the suffering and Episcopal Church of Scotland — the shadow of a shade now, and fortunately so; but I love to pray where my fathers prayed before me, without thinking worse of the Presbyterian forms because they do not affect me with the same associations.