The Waverley Novels, Volumen 7Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... attend to the voice of principle and self- denial , instead of that of precipitate passion . I could not , indeed , hope or expect to represent my prudent and benevolent citizen in a point of view so interesting as that of the peasant ...
... attend to the voice of principle and self- denial , instead of that of precipitate passion . I could not , indeed , hope or expect to represent my prudent and benevolent citizen in a point of view so interesting as that of the peasant ...
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... attending such inundations as you talk of , is , that they make rags dear . The multiplicity of publications does the present age no harm , and may greatly advantage that which is to succeed us . Captain . I do not see how that is to. 18 ...
... attending such inundations as you talk of , is , that they make rags dear . The multiplicity of publications does the present age no harm , and may greatly advantage that which is to succeed us . Captain . I do not see how that is to. 18 ...
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... attend him , His very mother scarce had kend him . His metamorphosis behold , From Glasgow frieze to cloth of gold His back - sword , with the iron hilt , To rapier , fairly hatch'd and gilt ; Was ever seen a gallant braver ! His very ...
... attend him , His very mother scarce had kend him . His metamorphosis behold , From Glasgow frieze to cloth of gold His back - sword , with the iron hilt , To rapier , fairly hatch'd and gilt ; Was ever seen a gallant braver ! His very ...
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... attended the King at his coming first out of Scotland , " but . " says Osborne , " which , through his whole reign ... attending the importunate crowd of disrespectable suitors , and as desirous to get rid of them as his Southern ...
... attended the King at his coming first out of Scotland , " but . " says Osborne , " which , through his whole reign ... attending the importunate crowd of disrespectable suitors , and as desirous to get rid of them as his Southern ...
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... attended him to the door of his chamber , where , resisting farther escort , the old citizen made his escape . As , in going down stairs , he passed the shop where Dame Christie stood becking , he made civil inquiries after her husband ...
... attended him to the door of his chamber , where , resisting farther escort , the old citizen made his escape . As , in going down stairs , he passed the shop where Dame Christie stood becking , he made civil inquiries after her husband ...
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Alice Alsatia answered apartment arms attended better betwixt called Captain Charles Chiffinch Christian companion Countess of Derby Court Dame daughter David Ramsay Deemster Derbyshire door Duke of Buckingham Earl Earl of Derby eyes father favour Fenella followed Ganlesse gentleman Geordie George Heriot Grace hand hastily hath hear heard Heaven honest honour horse Huntinglen Jerningham John Christie Julian Peveril King King's Knight Lady Peveril Lance London look Lord Dalgarno Lord Glenvarloch lordship Lowestoffe madam Majesty Majesty's Major Bridgenorth manner Margaret Martindale Castle Master Bridgenorth Master George Master Heriot means mind Mistress Moniplies never Nigel noble occasion person pleasure poor Popish Plot present Puritan replied Richie Roundheads royal scarce seemed Sir Geoffrey Sir Mungo speak stood stranger sword tell thee thing thou thought tion tone turned William Christian woman word young
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Página 82 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 522 - Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 116 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Página 678 - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Página 82 - To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs ; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run ; To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Página 15 - When I light on such a character as Bailie Jarvie, or Dalgetty, my imagination brightens, and my conception becomes clearer at every step which I take in his company, although it leads me many a weary mile away from the regular road, and forces me to leap hedge and ditch to get back into the route again.
Página 277 - We are not worst at once — the course of evil Begins so slowly, and from such slight source, An infant's hand might stem its breach with clay ; But let the stream get deeper, and philosophy — Ay, and religion too, — shall strive in vain To turn the headlong torrent.
Página 325 - The great fief of Castleton, with its adjacent wastes and forests, and all the wonders which they contain, had been forfeited in King John's stormy days by one William Peveril, and had been granted anew to the Lord Ferrers of that day. Yet this William's descendants, though no longer possessed of what they alleged to have been their original property, were long distinguished by the proud title of Peverils of the Peak, which served to mark their high descent and lofty pretensions.
Página 8 - The great ladies do go well masqued ; and indeed, it be the only show of their modesty to conceal their countenance ; but alack, they meet with such countenance to uphold their strange doings, that I marvel not at aught that happens.
Página 82 - What hell it is, in sueing long to bide : To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine...