The Waverley Novels, Volumen 7Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... mind from cant . " For the critics , they have their business , and ` I mine ; as the nursery proverb goes- " The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking . " I am their humble ...
... mind from cant . " For the critics , they have their business , and ` I mine ; as the nursery proverb goes- " The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking . " I am their humble ...
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... mind them , honest Allan ; you are a credit to Caledonia for all that . There are some lyrical effusions of his , too , which you would do well to read , Captain . " It's hame , and it's hame , " is equal to Burns . Captain . I will ...
... mind them , honest Allan ; you are a credit to Caledonia for all that . There are some lyrical effusions of his , too , which you would do well to read , Captain . " It's hame , and it's hame , " is equal to Burns . Captain . I will ...
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... mind . But see , our Scot has done gazing at Saint Dunstan's , and comes our way . By this light , a proper lad and a sturdy , in spite of freckles and sun - burn- ing . He comes nearer still ; I will have at him . ” And , if you do ...
... mind . But see , our Scot has done gazing at Saint Dunstan's , and comes our way . By this light , a proper lad and a sturdy , in spite of freckles and sun - burn- ing . He comes nearer still ; I will have at him . ” And , if you do ...
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... mind , that we pass only by our family - name of simple Mr. Nigel Olifaunt , as keeping ourselves retired for the present , though in Scotland we be called the Lord Nigel . " " It wisely done of your master , " said the citizen . " I ...
... mind , that we pass only by our family - name of simple Mr. Nigel Olifaunt , as keeping ourselves retired for the present , though in Scotland we be called the Lord Nigel . " " It wisely done of your master , " said the citizen . " I ...
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... mind that you have been eight months behind - hand . " There is something so sharp and aigre in the demand of a peremptory dun , that no human tympanum however inaccessible to other tones , can resist the application . David Ramsay ...
... mind that you have been eight months behind - hand . " There is something so sharp and aigre in the demand of a peremptory dun , that no human tympanum however inaccessible to other tones , can resist the application . David Ramsay ...
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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...