Guy Mannering: Or, The AstrologerWest and Richardson, 1815 |
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... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of dis- position , the poor parents were encouraged to hope , that their bairn , as they expressed it , " might wag his pow in a ...
... Dominie Sampson . He was of low birth , but having evinced , even from his cradle , an uncommon seriousness of dis- position , the poor parents were encouraged to hope , that their bairn , as they expressed it , " might wag his pow in a ...
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... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town where it happened with a week's sport . It would be endless even to mention the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad , called " Samp- son's Riddle ...
... Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town where it happened with a week's sport . It would be endless even to mention the numerous jokes to which it gave birth , from a ballad , called " Samp- son's Riddle ...
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Or, The Astrologer Walter Scott. of Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some ad- dress . He attempted also to snuff the candles , but was ...
Or, The Astrologer Walter Scott. of Dominie Sampson . Conversation , it is true , was out of the question , but the Dominie was a good listener , and stirred the fire with some ad- dress . He attempted also to snuff the candles , but was ...
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... Dominie the honour to sip up wi ' us , I am sure we will not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; -there was ance a lass that was in that way - she did not live far from hereabouts - ye need na shake your head ...
... Dominie the honour to sip up wi ' us , I am sure we will not detain you very late . Luckie Howatson is very expeditious ; -there was ance a lass that was in that way - she did not live far from hereabouts - ye need na shake your head ...
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... Dominie ? I am sure Meg's sangs do nae harm . " " Nor good neither , " answered Dominie Samp- son , in a voice whose untuneable harshness corres- ponded with the awkwardness of his figure . They were the first words which Mannering had ...
... Dominie ? I am sure Meg's sangs do nae harm . " " Nor good neither , " answered Dominie Samp- son , in a voice whose untuneable harshness corres- ponded with the awkwardness of his figure . They were the first words which Mannering had ...
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answered appearance astrologer auld Aweel bairn better Brown called canting language castle character Charles Hazlewood circumstances Colonel Mannering daughter Deacon dear dearest Matilda Derncleugh Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door e'en father favour fear feelings flageolet fortune frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin gude GUY MANNERING gypsy hand head heard honour hope horse Jabos Jock Julia Kippletringan land length light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun ment Merrilies Mervyn mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle mutchkin naething never night observed occasion ower person poor precentor rendered ride road round ruins scene Scotland seemed seen servant side sloop of war spirits stranger sure tell there's thing thought tion traveller turned walk Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne ye'll young lady
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Страница 185 - The close-press'd leaves unoped for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page, On the broad back the stubborn ridges roll'd, Where yet the title stands in tarnish'd gold.
Страница 70 - ... their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan. Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs ; look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up ; not that...
Страница 26 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Страница 35 - Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and peace and strife, In the thread of human life. While the mystic twist is spinning, And the infant's life beginning. Dimly seen through twilight bending, Lo, what varied shapes attending! Passions wild, and Follies vain, Pleasures soon exchanged for pain ; Doubt, and Jealousy, and Fear, In the magic dance appear. Now they wax, and now they dwindle, Whirling with the whirling spindle. Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle human...
Страница 129 - 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 26 - 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...
Страница 56 - ... of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.
Страница 70 - Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs; look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born, God forbid,- — and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise f that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.
Страница 70 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.
Страница 66 - He left the executive part of the business to the officers of the law, under the immediate direction of Frank Kennedy, a supervisor, or ridingofficer, belonging to the excise, who had of late become intimate at the Place, and of whom we shall have more to say in the next chapter. Mr. Bertram himself chose that day to make a visit to a friend at some distance.