Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised, Томове 9–10 |
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... voice opened therein as a preacher , who delighted in the col- lection of olden tales and legends , and in ... voices , and in making face- tious tales and responses , and whom I have to INTRODUCTION . ix.
... voice opened therein as a preacher , who delighted in the col- lection of olden tales and legends , and in ... voices , and in making face- tious tales and responses , and whom I have to INTRODUCTION . ix.
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... voice repeat the celebrated description of Paradise , which he seemed fully to appre- ciate . His other studies were of a different cast , chiefly polemical . He never went to the parish church , and was therefore suspected of ...
... voice repeat the celebrated description of Paradise , which he seemed fully to appre- ciate . His other studies were of a different cast , chiefly polemical . He never went to the parish church , and was therefore suspected of ...
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... voice shout in his rear , and propose to him a partner on the road . He slackened his pace , and was quickly joined by a youth well known to him , a gentleman of some fortune in that remote country , and who had been abroad on the same ...
... voice shout in his rear , and propose to him a partner on the road . He slackened his pace , and was quickly joined by a youth well known to him , a gentleman of some fortune in that remote country , and who had been abroad on the same ...
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... voice replied , whose shrill , uncouth , and dis- sonant tones made Elliot step two paces back and start- led even his companion , " Pass on your way , and ask nought at them that ask nought at you . " " What do you do here so far from ...
... voice replied , whose shrill , uncouth , and dis- sonant tones made Elliot step two paces back and start- led even his companion , " Pass on your way , and ask nought at them that ask nought at you . " " What do you do here so far from ...
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... voice in shrieks and imprecations that thrilled wildly along the waste heath . The two sportsmen moved on some time in silence , until they were out of hearing of these uncouth sounds , which was not ere they had gained a considerable ...
... voice in shrieks and imprecations that thrilled wildly along the waste heath . The two sportsmen moved on some time in silence , until they were out of hearing of these uncouth sounds , which was not ere they had gained a considerable ...
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Страница 167 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Страница 196 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Страница 54 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Страница 48 - Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered : for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh ; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine : and all flesh shall know that 1 the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Страница 20 - Ziou is his seat. There arrows of the bow he brake, The shield, the sword, the war, More glorious thou than hills of prey, More excellent art far.
Страница 15 - To save the expense of Christian blood, And try if we, by mediation Of treaty, and accommodation, » Can end the quarrel, and compose This bloody duel without blows.
Страница 166 - ... to soften obstinacy; and whose very powers of intellect have been confounded by hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius, with which his solitary fancy is most gratified...
Страница 180 - ... in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change-house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under his auspices, and, if he was able to sustain it, at his expense.
Страница 177 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Страница 232 - Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheelingliill.