Guy ManneringOxford University Press, 1912 - 549 страници |
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... passed to a distant branch of the family . He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room . ' I fear from your looks , ' said the father , ' that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the ...
... passed to a distant branch of the family . He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room . ' I fear from your looks , ' said the father , ' that you have bad tidings to tell me of my young stranger ; perhaps God will resume the ...
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... passed as the father could have wished . A young Nazarite could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was with- held from his observation : he only heard what was pure in precept , he only witnessed what was worthy ...
... passed as the father could have wished . A young Nazarite could not have been bred up with more rigour . All that was evil was with- held from his observation : he only heard what was pure in precept , he only witnessed what was worthy ...
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... passed along the dreary morass . To these was now joined the distant roar of the ocean , towards which the traveller seemed to be fast approaching . This was no circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay ...
... passed along the dreary morass . To these was now joined the distant roar of the ocean , towards which the traveller seemed to be fast approaching . This was no circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay ...
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... passed . Finally , he led the way through a wicket into something which had still the air of an avenue , though many of the trees were felled . The roar of the ocean was now near and full , and the moon , which began to make her ...
... passed . Finally , he led the way through a wicket into something which had still the air of an avenue , though many of the trees were felled . The roar of the ocean was now near and full , and the moon , which began to make her ...
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... passed over without anything remarkable ; and on the morning of that which followed the traveller mounted his palfrey , bade a courteous adieu to his hospitable landlord and to his clerical attendant , repeated his good wishes for the ...
... passed over without anything remarkable ; and on the morning of that which followed the traveller mounted his palfrey , bade a courteous adieu to his hospitable landlord and to his clerical attendant , repeated his good wishes for the ...
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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...
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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.