Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised, Томове 9–10 |
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... death , her long hair uncurled by the evening damps , and falling over her shoulders and breast , as the wet streamers droop from the mast when the storm has passed away , and left the vessel stranded on the beach . The Dwarf first ...
... death , her long hair uncurled by the evening damps , and falling over her shoulders and breast , as the wet streamers droop from the mast when the storm has passed away , and left the vessel stranded on the beach . The Dwarf first ...
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... death- damp from the brow of the dying , we cannot exist with- out mutual help . All , therefore , that need aid , have right to ask it of their fellow - mortals ; no one who has the pow- er of granting can refuse it without guilt ...
... death- damp from the brow of the dying , we cannot exist with- out mutual help . All , therefore , that need aid , have right to ask it of their fellow - mortals ; no one who has the pow- er of granting can refuse it without guilt ...
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... death such a costly mauso- leum in affected sorrow ; others cleared him from the imputation of hypocrisy , and averred that the monument 13 * VOL . I. had been constructed under the direction and at the sole THE BLACK DWARF . 149.
... death such a costly mauso- leum in affected sorrow ; others cleared him from the imputation of hypocrisy , and averred that the monument 13 * VOL . I. had been constructed under the direction and at the sole THE BLACK DWARF . 149.
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... death , ( in which to gratify him I willingly ac- quiesced , ) he left at my disposal the rents of a great pro- portion of his estates , and especially all those , which , having belonged to your mother , reverted to him as a male fief ...
... death , ( in which to gratify him I willingly ac- quiesced , ) he left at my disposal the rents of a great pro- portion of his estates , and especially all those , which , having belonged to your mother , reverted to him as a male fief ...
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... from one of these visits , his grave countenance , and deep mourning dress , announced to the Ellieslaw family that their benefactor was no more . Sir Edward's death made no addition to their fortune , for he THE BLACK DWARF . 163.
... from one of these visits , his grave countenance , and deep mourning dress , announced to the Ellieslaw family that their benefactor was no more . Sir Edward's death made no addition to their fortune , for he THE BLACK DWARF . 163.
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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.