Guy Mannering: Or, The AstrologerWest and Richardson, 1815 |
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... means of life and of the power of the laws , gradually redu- ced this dreadful evil within more narrow bounds . The tribes of gypsies , jockies , or cairds , -for by all these denominations such banditti were known , -became few in ...
... means of life and of the power of the laws , gradually redu- ced this dreadful evil within more narrow bounds . The tribes of gypsies , jockies , or cairds , -for by all these denominations such banditti were known , -became few in ...
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... means of livelihood . Each tribe had usually some fixed place of rendezvous , which they occasionally occupied and considered as their standing camp , and in the vicinity of which they generally abstained from depredation . They had ...
... means of livelihood . Each tribe had usually some fixed place of rendezvous , which they occasionally occupied and considered as their standing camp , and in the vicinity of which they generally abstained from depredation . They had ...
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... conduct towards them ? Some means of reformation ought at least to have been tried , before sending seven families at once upon the wide world , and depriving them of a degree of countenance , which withheld them at least 72 GUY MANNERING .
... conduct towards them ? Some means of reformation ought at least to have been tried , before sending seven families at once upon the wide world , and depriving them of a degree of countenance , which withheld them at least 72 GUY MANNERING .
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... means that a term day is not be- gun till it's ended . ” " That sounds like nonsense , my dear . " " May be so , my dear ; but it may be very good law for all that . I am sure , speaking of term days , I wish , as Frank Kennedy says ...
... means that a term day is not be- gun till it's ended . ” " That sounds like nonsense , my dear . " " May be so , my dear ; but it may be very good law for all that . I am sure , speaking of term days , I wish , as Frank Kennedy says ...
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... means of grappling the deceas- ed , and dragging him perhaps to the precipice . On the other hand , poor Kennedy's purse was found untouched ; and , what seemed yet more ex- traordinary , the pistols which he usually carried when about ...
... means of grappling the deceas- ed , and dragging him perhaps to the precipice . On the other hand , poor Kennedy's purse was found untouched ; and , what seemed yet more ex- traordinary , the pistols which he usually carried when about ...
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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.