Guy Mannering, Volumen 1Ticknor and Fields, 1857 |
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... better illustrated than by re- citing the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded ; but to which , in the progress of the work , the production ceased to bear any , even the most distant resemblance . The tale was ...
... better illustrated than by re- citing the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded ; but to which , in the progress of the work , the production ceased to bear any , even the most distant resemblance . The tale was ...
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... Better , far better that they torment him by ungrateful cravings , than that he should have to repent having satiated them by criminal indulgence . " The dispositions of the young man were so excellent , that he combated , by reason and ...
... Better , far better that they torment him by ungrateful cravings , than that he should have to repent having satiated them by criminal indulgence . " The dispositions of the young man were so excellent , that he combated , by reason and ...
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... family , in order the better to preserve it in her own memory , a ballad called The Durham Garland ; from which , or some Scotch modification of it , he was inclined to con- clude that both his own " local story , " 32 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... family , in order the better to preserve it in her own memory , a ballad called The Durham Garland ; from which , or some Scotch modification of it , he was inclined to con- clude that both his own " local story , " 32 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
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... better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neigh- bouring proprietors ...
... better amused perhaps than our readers , and to this Lewis Bertram retreated , full of projects for re - establishing the prosperity of his family . He took some land into his own hand , rented some from neigh- bouring proprietors ...
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... better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " " Certainly , sir , " said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his na- tivity according to the rule of the Triplicities ...
... better than you how to spae its fortune - he does it by the stars . " " Certainly , sir , " said Mannering , entering into the simple humour of his landlord , " I will calculate his na- tivity according to the rule of the Triplicities ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Annesley answered appearance Astrologer auld bairn better Bewcastle Brown called cant language castle character Charles Hazlewood Charlies-hope child circumstances Colonel Mannering Dandie daughter dear Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellan Ellangowan farmer father fear feelings flageolet fortune frae Frank Kennedy Galloway gentleman gipsy Glossin gude gudewife guest Guy Mannering hame hand Hazlewood head heard heart honour hope horse hospitality Jean Jean Gordon Julia Kippletringan Laird land landlady light look Lord Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun Merrilies Mervyn mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night observed occasion ower parlour person poor portmanteau postilion precentor reader road round ruins scene Scotland seemed story stranger supposed sure tell there's thought tion turned Warroch weel Willie Marshal woman wood Woodbourne young lady
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Página 98 - 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 177 - 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 120 - ... their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock 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 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...
Página 186 - 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 310 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Página 58 - Mannering told his circumstances to the servant ; and the gentleman of the house, who heard his tale from the parlour, stepped forward, and welcomed the stranger hospitably to Ellangowan. The boy, made happy with halfa-crown, was...
Página 177 - 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 ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss...
Página 78 - 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 watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Página 106 - 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 78 - 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 ; and to the lover Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down; and even at this day 'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings everything that's fair.