Guy Mannering: Or, The Astrologer, Том 1Nimmo, 1892 - 644 страници |
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... traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village of Kippletringan , where he proposed to quarter for the night . His queries were usually answered by a counter - challenge re- specting the place ...
... traveller questioned more closely each chance passenger on his distance from the village of Kippletringan , where he proposed to quarter for the night . His queries were usually answered by a counter - challenge re- specting the place ...
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... traveller seemed to be fast ap- proaching . This was no circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea - beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise with great height and ad ...
... traveller seemed to be fast ap- proaching . This was no circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea - beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise with great height and ad ...
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... traveller in front of a modern house of moderate size , at which his guide rapped with great importance . Mannering told his cir- cumstances to the servant ; and the gentleman of the house , who heard his tale from the parlour , stepped ...
... traveller in front of a modern house of moderate size , at which his guide rapped with great importance . Mannering told his cir- cumstances to the servant ; and the gentleman of the house , who heard his tale from the parlour , stepped ...
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... traveller , " I am sorry to see a gentleman of your learning and gravity la- bouring under such strange blindness and delusion . Will you place the brief , the modern , and , as I may say , the vernacular name of Isaac Newton in op- GUY ...
... traveller , " I am sorry to see a gentleman of your learning and gravity la- bouring under such strange blindness and delusion . Will you place the brief , the modern , and , as I may say , the vernacular name of Isaac Newton in op- GUY ...
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... traveller approached the seashore , without being aware how nearly . He now per- ceived that the ruins of Ellangowan Castle were situated upon a promontory , or projection of rock , which formed one side of a small and placid bay on the ...
... traveller approached the seashore , without being aware how nearly . He now per- ceived that the ruins of Ellangowan Castle were situated upon a promontory , or projection of rock , which formed one side of a small and placid bay on the ...
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ANDREW LANG answered appearance astrologer auld Aweel bairn Brown called castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlie Colonel Mannering Dandie daughter Delaserre Derncleugh Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Dormont Dumfriesshire e'en Ellan Ellangowan farmer father fear feelings flageolet fortune frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin gowan gude gudewife guest Guy Mannering gypsy hame hand Hazlewood head heard honour horse Jean Jean Gordon Julia Kippletringan laird land landlady letter Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies Mervyn mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle Mumps's never night observed ower person poor postilion precentor reader recollection ride round ruins scene Scotland Scott seemed side sloop-of-war story stranger supposed there's thought tion turned Warroch Waverley WAVERLEY NOVELS weel woman wood Woodbourne young lady young laird
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Страница 111 - shall follow, to give the colonel time to pitch his camp ere I reconnoitre his position. Adieu, Delaserre; I .shall hardly find another opportunity of writing till I reach Scotland." CHAPTER XXII. Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Страница 24 - been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature. ... No magistrate could ever discover, or be informed which way one in a hundred of these wretches
Страница 2 - her song, afterwards attempted the following paraphrase of what, from a few intelligible phrases, he concluded to be its purport: — Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and peace and strife. In the thread of human
Страница 38 - and spent their life-blood ere ye had scratched your finger. 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 blackcock in the muirs
Страница 83 - Our Polly is a sad slut, nor heeds what we have taught her. I wonder any man alive will ever rear a daughter ; For when she 's drest with care and cost, all tempting, fine, and gay. As men should serve a cucumber, she flings herself away.
Страница 24 - by reason ot this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature. ... No magistrate could ever discover, or be informed which way one in a hundred of these wretches
Страница 38 - ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan, ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram! This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths, — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blyther for that. Ye have riven the thack
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Страница 7 - You have fed upon my seignories, Disparked my parks, and felled my forest woods, From mine own windows torn my household coat, Razed out my impress, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman. Richard II. WHEN the boat which carried the worthy captain on