Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy ManneringR. Cadell, 1842 |
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... lives , a prosperous gentleman , but too much occupied with graver business , to thank me for indicating him more plainly as a confidant of my childish mystery . When boyhood advancing into youth required more serious studies and graver ...
... lives , a prosperous gentleman , but too much occupied with graver business , to thank me for indicating him more plainly as a confidant of my childish mystery . When boyhood advancing into youth required more serious studies and graver ...
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... live in a lion's den ; and as I settled here in a quiet time , and have never given cause of offence , I am respected by my neighbours , and even , as you see , by our forayers from England . " " I rejoice to hear it , and accept your ...
... live in a lion's den ; and as I settled here in a quiet time , and have never given cause of offence , I am respected by my neighbours , and even , as you see , by our forayers from England . " " I rejoice to hear it , and accept your ...
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... live in the land of Faery , and is expected to return at some great convulsion of society , in which he is to act a distinguished part - a tradition common to all nations , as the belief of the Mahomedans respecting their twelfth Imaum ...
... live in the land of Faery , and is expected to return at some great convulsion of society , in which he is to act a distinguished part - a tradition common to all nations , as the belief of the Mahomedans respecting their twelfth Imaum ...
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... live in the neighbourhood , he ought , in the courtesy of dealing , to treat him to half a mutchkin . " You may see my dwelling if you will , " said the stranger ; " but if you lose courage at what you see there , you will rue it all ...
... live in the neighbourhood , he ought , in the courtesy of dealing , to treat him to half a mutchkin . " You may see my dwelling if you will , " said the stranger ; " but if you lose courage at what you see there , you will rue it all ...
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... live to tell it . " " Fear not , " said Lord Boteler , " he shall be found , if this or the four adjacent counties hold him . — And now Lord Fitzosborne will be pleased to doff the armour he has so kindly assumed for our sakes , and we ...
... live to tell it . " " Fear not , " said Lord Boteler , " he shall be found , if this or the four adjacent counties hold him . — And now Lord Fitzosborne will be pleased to doff the armour he has so kindly assumed for our sakes , and we ...
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answered appearance arms attended auld Bailie Baron of Bradwardine broadsword Brown called Callum Captain Waverley castle Chapter character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Mannering Colonel Talbot command dear deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door Edinburgh Edward Ellangowan Evan eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora followed frae gentleman gipsy Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart Jacobite Julia lady Laird letter Liddesdale look Lord Lucy Mac-Morlan Macwheeble maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning never night observed occasion party person Pleydell poor portmanteau Prince prisoner received recollection regiment rendered replied Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard Sir Robert Spontoon stranger supposed thought Tully-Veolan turned voice Waverley-Honour Waverley's weel Whig wish Woodbourne young Hazlewood younker
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Página 398 - 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 511 - As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet...
Página 29 - Springlets in the dawn are steaming, Diamonds on the brake are gleaming, And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Página 182 - ... pitchfork, her cheeks flushed with a scarlet red where they were not smutted with soot and lampblack, jostled through the crowd, and brandishing high a child of two years old, which she danced in her arms, without regard to its screams of terror, sang forth, with all her might " Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling, Charlie is my darling, The young Chevalier." " D'ye hear what's come ower ye now...
Página 170 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
Página 55 - With a desire of amusement therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge, young Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder. Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. I believe one reason why such numerous instances of erudition occur among the lower...
Página 10 - I had a distinguished character for that talent, at a time when the applause of my companions was iny recompense for the disgraces and punishments which the future romance-writer incurred for being idle himself, and keeping others idle, during hours that should have been employed on our tasks. The chief enjoyment of my holidays was to escape with a chosen friend, who had the same taste with myself, and alternately to recite to each other such wild adventures as we were able to devise.
Página 505 - Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door. Nor kind mate, bound, by holy vow, To bless a good man's store. Noon lulls us in a gloomy den, And night is grown our day; Uprouse ye, then, my merry men! And use it as ye may.
Página 146 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake! Tis the bugle — but not for the chase is the call ; 'Tis the pibroch's shrill summons — but not to the hall.
Página 289 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.