Guy Mannering; or, The astrologer. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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... stories height , with a front like a grenadier's cap , two windows on each side , and a door in the midst , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused , per ...
... stories height , with a front like a grenadier's cap , two windows on each side , and a door in the midst , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused , per ...
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... stories of Ellangowan . Upon one of these occasions , he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall , gaunt , awk- ward , boney figure , attired in a threadbare suit of black , with a coloured handkerchief , not over clean ...
... stories of Ellangowan . Upon one of these occasions , he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall , gaunt , awk- ward , boney figure , attired in a threadbare suit of black , with a coloured handkerchief , not over clean ...
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... story , and singing at full pitch of voice . The high notes were too shrill for a man , the low seemed too deep for a woman . The words , as far as Mannering could distinguish them , seemed to run thus : Canny moment , lucky fit ; Is ...
... story , and singing at full pitch of voice . The high notes were too shrill for a man , the low seemed too deep for a woman . The words , as far as Mannering could distinguish them , seemed to run thus : Canny moment , lucky fit ; Is ...
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... story about that . There was ance a laird - that's Mac- fie of Gudgeonford , — he had a great number of kain hens - that's hens that the tenant pays to the landlord like a sort of rent in kind — they aye feed mine very ill ; Luckie ...
... story about that . There was ance a laird - that's Mac- fie of Gudgeonford , — he had a great number of kain hens - that's hens that the tenant pays to the landlord like a sort of rent in kind — they aye feed mine very ill ; Luckie ...
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... story about the road , and the fauld - dike - I ken Sir Thomas was behind there , and I said plainly to the clerk to the trustees that I saw the cloven foot , let them take that as they like - would any gentleman , or set of gentlemen ...
... story about the road , and the fauld - dike - I ken Sir Thomas was behind there , and I said plainly to the clerk to the trustees that I saw the cloven foot , let them take that as they like - would any gentleman , or set of gentlemen ...
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Guy Mannering; Or, the Astrologer. by the Author of 'Waverley' Sir Walter Scott (bart ) Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
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Página 150 - 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?
Página 31 - 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, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Página 160 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 31 - 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...
Página 128 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Página 32 - Come and see ! trust thine own eyes ! A fearful sign stands in the house of life...
Página 55 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 66 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind 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. In years of plenty...
Página 41 - 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.
Página 82 - 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.