The Waverley Novels, Volumen 7Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... sure to be acted ; for the managers , while thousands of volunteers are desirous of serving them , are wonderfully partial to pressed men . Author . I am a living witness , having been , like a second Laberius , made a dramatist whether ...
... sure to be acted ; for the managers , while thousands of volunteers are desirous of serving them , are wonderfully partial to pressed men . Author . I am a living witness , having been , like a second Laberius , made a dramatist whether ...
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... sure to be at the one end or the other of it , and then away skips Francis Tunstall for company . I think the prize - fighters , bear - leaders , and mountebanks , are in a league against me , my dear friend , and that they pass my ...
... sure to be at the one end or the other of it , and then away skips Francis Tunstall for company . I think the prize - fighters , bear - leaders , and mountebanks , are in a league against me , my dear friend , and that they pass my ...
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... sure my father has killed more cows and boars , not to mention bulls , calves , sheep , ewes , lambs , and pigs , than the haill Baronage of England . " " Go to ! you are a shrewd knave , " said Master George ; " charm your tongue , and ...
... sure my father has killed more cows and boars , not to mention bulls , calves , sheep , ewes , lambs , and pigs , than the haill Baronage of England . " " Go to ! you are a shrewd knave , " said Master George ; " charm your tongue , and ...
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... sure to find her well - scrubbed floor soiled with the relics of tobacco , ( which , spite of King James's Coun- terblast , was then forcing itself into use , ) and her best curtains impregnated with the odour of Geneva and strong ...
... sure to find her well - scrubbed floor soiled with the relics of tobacco , ( which , spite of King James's Coun- terblast , was then forcing itself into use , ) and her best curtains impregnated with the odour of Geneva and strong ...
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... sure he died , Saint Barnaby was ten years , at twenty stone weight . I was a bareheaded girl at the time , and lived in the neighbourhood , though I had little thought of marrying John then , who had a score of years the better of me ...
... sure he died , Saint Barnaby was ten years , at twenty stone weight . I was a bareheaded girl at the time , and lived in the neighbourhood , though I had little thought of marrying John then , who had a score of years the better of me ...
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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...