Guy Mannering: Or, The AstrologerWest and Richardson, 1815 |
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... entered upon pos- session , and , in the language of Hotspur , " came me cranking in , " and cut the family out of ano- ther monstrous cantle of their remaining property . Donohoe Bertram , with somewhat of an Irish name , and somewhat ...
... entered upon pos- session , and , in the language of Hotspur , " came me cranking in , " and cut the family out of ano- ther monstrous cantle of their remaining property . Donohoe Bertram , with somewhat of an Irish name , and somewhat ...
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... entered . Her appearance made Mannering start . She was full six feet high , wore a man's great - coat over the rest of her dress , had in her hand a good- ly sloe - thorn cudgel , and in all points of equip- ment , except her ...
... entered . Her appearance made Mannering start . She was full six feet high , wore a man's great - coat over the rest of her dress , had in her hand a good- ly sloe - thorn cudgel , and in all points of equip- ment , except her ...
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... entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calcu- late his nativity according to the rule of the Tripli- cities , as recommended by Pythagoras , Hippocrates , Diocles , and Avicenna . Or I will begin ab hora questionis ...
... entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calcu- late his nativity according to the rule of the Tripli- cities , as recommended by Pythagoras , Hippocrates , Diocles , and Avicenna . Or I will begin ab hora questionis ...
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... entering the gateway , he found that the de magnificence of the inner court amply cor- sponded with the grandeur of the exterior . On e one side ran a range of windows lofty and large , vided by carved mullions of stone , which had ice ...
... entering the gateway , he found that the de magnificence of the inner court amply cor- sponded with the grandeur of the exterior . On e one side ran a range of windows lofty and large , vided by carved mullions of stone , which had ice ...
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... entered upon measures of retalia- tion . Ellangowan's hen - roosts were plundered , his linen stolen from the lines or bleaching ground , his fishings poached , his dogs kidnapped , his grow- ing trees cut or barked . Much petty ...
... entered upon measures of retalia- tion . Ellangowan's hen - roosts were plundered , his linen stolen from the lines or bleaching ground , his fishings poached , his dogs kidnapped , his grow- ing trees cut or barked . Much petty ...
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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.