Guy Mannering: Or, The AstrologerWest and Richardson, 1815 |
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Side 10
... land , A huge half moon , a monstrous cantle out . HENRY FOURTH , Part I. THE Company in the parlour at Ellangowan , consisted of the Laird himself , and a sort of per- son who might be the village schoolmaster , or perhaps the ...
... land , A huge half moon , a monstrous cantle out . HENRY FOURTH , Part I. THE Company in the parlour at Ellangowan , consisted of the Laird himself , and a sort of per- son who might be the village schoolmaster , or perhaps the ...
Side 14
... lands , evacuated the old castle , where the family lived in their deca- dence , as a mouse ( said an old farmer ) lives ... land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors , bought and sold Highland cattle and Cheviot ...
... lands , evacuated the old castle , where the family lived in their deca- dence , as a mouse ( said an old farmer ) lives ... land into his own hand , rented some from neighbouring proprietors , bought and sold Highland cattle and Cheviot ...
Side 35
... land , even in the month of November , smiled under its influ- ence . A steep , but regular ascent , led from the terrace to the neighboring eminence , and conduct- ed Mannering to the front of the old castle . It consisted of two ...
... land , even in the month of November , smiled under its influ- ence . A steep , but regular ascent , led from the terrace to the neighboring eminence , and conduct- ed Mannering to the front of the old castle . It consisted of two ...
Side 37
... land sloped smoothly down , or sent into the sea promontories covered with wood . · A scene so different from what last night's jour ney had presaged , produced a proportional effect upon Mannering . Beneath his eye lay the mod- ern ...
... land sloped smoothly down , or sent into the sea promontories covered with wood . · A scene so different from what last night's jour ney had presaged , produced a proportional effect upon Mannering . Beneath his eye lay the mod- ern ...
Side 38
... by as- sistance of those ancient implements of housewifery now almost banished from the land , the distaff and spindle . As she spun , she sung what seemed to be a charm . Mannering , after in vain attempting 38 GUY MANNERING .
... by as- sistance of those ancient implements of housewifery now almost banished from the land , the distaff and spindle . As she spun , she sung what seemed to be a charm . Mannering , after in vain attempting 38 GUY MANNERING .
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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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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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?
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.