Guy ManneringOxford University Press, 1912 - 549 страници |
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... naturally disposed to devote to our offspring ? ' Neither the one nor the other , ' answered the stranger ; unless my judgment greatly err , the infant will survive the years of minority , and in temper and disposition will prove all ...
... naturally disposed to devote to our offspring ? ' Neither the one nor the other , ' answered the stranger ; unless my judgment greatly err , the infant will survive the years of minority , and in temper and disposition will prove all ...
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... naturally a bold , lively - spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing and sate down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry , pigs , and so forth that could be collected by a wide and ...
... naturally a bold , lively - spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing and sate down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry , pigs , and so forth that could be collected by a wide and ...
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... natural terraces , on which grew some old trees , and terminating upon the white sand . The other side of the bay , opposite to the old castle , was a sloping and varied promontory , covered chiefly with copsewood , which on that ...
... natural terraces , on which grew some old trees , and terminating upon the white sand . The other side of the bay , opposite to the old castle , was a sloping and varied promontory , covered chiefly with copsewood , which on that ...
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... naturally caught some portion of his enthusiasm , and laboured for a time to make himself master of the technical process of astrological research so that , before he became convinced of its absurdity , William Lilly himself would have ...
... naturally caught some portion of his enthusiasm , and laboured for a time to make himself master of the technical process of astrological research so that , before he became convinced of its absurdity , William Lilly himself would have ...
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... natural love for the marvellous , that we willingly contribute our own efforts to beguile our better judgments . Whether the coinci- dence which I have mentioned was really one of those singular chances which sometimes happen against ...
... natural love for the marvellous , that we willingly contribute our own efforts to beguile our better judgments . Whether the coinci- dence which I have mentioned was really one of those singular chances which sometimes happen against ...
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Allonby answered appearance 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 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 postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood 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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Страница 185 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 129 - ... venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet : That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press'd leaves...
Страница 257 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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.