Guy Mannering: Or, The Astrologer, Том 1Nimmo, 1892 - 644 страници |
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... young man made a fortune in India , returned to Scotland , and took a shooting in Dumfriesshire , near Dormont , his ancestral home . He lodged at a small inn hard by , and the landlady , struck by his name , began to gossip with him ...
... young man made a fortune in India , returned to Scotland , and took a shooting in Dumfriesshire , near Dormont , his ancestral home . He lodged at a small inn hard by , and the landlady , struck by his name , began to gossip with him ...
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... young ladies present nothing above par . . . . ... " There are parts of this novel which none but one endowed with the sublimity of genius could have dictated ; there are others which any ordinary character cobbler might as easily have ...
... young ladies present nothing above par . . . . ... " There are parts of this novel which none but one endowed with the sublimity of genius could have dictated ; there are others which any ordinary character cobbler might as easily have ...
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... ? The characters of the young ladies have not always been applauded . Taste , in the matter of heroines , 1 Quarterly Review , January , 1815 . varies greatly ; Sir Walter had no high opinion of XX EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION TO.
... ? The characters of the young ladies have not always been applauded . Taste , in the matter of heroines , 1 Quarterly Review , January , 1815 . varies greatly ; Sir Walter had no high opinion of XX EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION TO.
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... young lady that attention which is due to misfortune and virtue . " " Certainly , sir . Is my future friend red - haired ? " Miss Mannering is very capable of listening to Brown's flageolet from the balcony , but not of accompanying ...
... young lady that attention which is due to misfortune and virtue . " " Certainly , sir . Is my future friend red - haired ? " Miss Mannering is very capable of listening to Brown's flageolet from the balcony , but not of accompanying ...
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... young man made a fortune in India , returned to Scotland , and took a shooting in Dumfriesshire , near Dormont , his ancestral home . He lodged at a small inn hard by , and the landlady , struck by his name , began to gossip with him ...
... young man made a fortune in India , returned to Scotland , and took a shooting in Dumfriesshire , near Dormont , his ancestral home . He lodged at a small inn hard by , and the landlady , struck by his name , began to gossip with him ...
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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 173 - XXIX. 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. A Midsummer
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
Страница xlvi - T is Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings everything that's fair. Such musings soon gave way to others. " Alas !" he muttered, " my good old tutor, who used to enter so deep into the controversy between Heydon and Chambers on the subject of
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