Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceGeorge Robertson, 1898 - 484 páginas |
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... Glossin , writer in - , agent for the Laird of Ellangowan . This honest gen- tleman had either been refused some favor by the old member , or , what is as probable , he had got all that he had the most distant pretension to ask , and ...
... Glossin , writer in - , agent for the Laird of Ellangowan . This honest gen- tleman had either been refused some favor by the old member , or , what is as probable , he had got all that he had the most distant pretension to ask , and ...
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... Glossin wants to get rid of the auld Laird , and drive on the sale , for fear the heir - male should cast up upon them ; for I have heard say , if there was an heir - male they couldna sell the estate for auld Ellangowan's debt . " 1 ...
... Glossin wants to get rid of the auld Laird , and drive on the sale , for fear the heir - male should cast up upon them ; for I have heard say , if there was an heir - male they couldna sell the estate for auld Ellangowan's debt . " 1 ...
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... Glossin , that's risen on the ruin of the best friend he ever had . And now I think on't , I'll slip on my hood and pattens , and gang to Mr. Mac - Morlan mysell , he's at hame e'en now ; it's hardly a step . " 16 , J : " Do so , my ...
... Glossin , that's risen on the ruin of the best friend he ever had . And now I think on't , I'll slip on my hood and pattens , and gang to Mr. Mac - Morlan mysell , he's at hame e'en now ; it's hardly a step . " 16 , J : " Do so , my ...
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... Glossin's voice ! If my father sees him , it will kill him outright ! " Sampson wheeled perpendicularly round , and moved with long strides to confront the attorney as he issued from beneath the portal arch of the ruin . " Avoid ye ...
... Glossin's voice ! If my father sees him , it will kill him outright ! " Sampson wheeled perpendicularly round , and moved with long strides to confront the attorney as he issued from beneath the portal arch of the ruin . " Avoid ye ...
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... Glossin , " without entering into the merits of this controversy , I must inform you that you have chosen a very improper place , time , and presence for it . And you will oblige me by withdrawing without more words . " Glossin , being ...
... Glossin , " without entering into the merits of this controversy , I must inform you that you have chosen a very improper place , time , and presence for it . And you will oblige me by withdrawing without more words . " Glossin , being ...
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answered appeared arms attended auld Bailie Baron of Bradwardine broadsword Brown called Callum Captain Waverley castle CHAPTER character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain clan Colonel Mannering Colonel Talbot command dear deyvil Dinmont Dirk Dominie door Edinburgh Edward Ellangowan Evan eyes father favor feelings Flora followed frae gentleman Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering gypsey hand Hatteraick head heard hero Highland honor hope horse house of Stuart Jacobite Julia lady Laird letter Liddesdale look Lord Lucy Mac-Morlan Macwheeble maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning never night observed occasion party person Pinkie House Pleydell poor portmanteau Prince prisoner rendered replied Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard Sir Robert spirit Spontoon supposed tell thought tion Tully-Veolan turned Vich Ian Vohr voice Waverley-Honor Waverley's weel Whig wish Woodbourne words young Hazlewood
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Página 88 - 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? With the years beyond the flood It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done!
Página 94 - 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 321 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Página 5 - I'll have the current in this place damm'd up ; And here the smug and silver Trent shall run In a new channel, fair and evenly : It shall not wind with such a deep indent. To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
Página 124 - That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press'd leaves...
Página 173 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Página 58 - But see, his face is black and full of blood; His eyeballs further out than when he...
Página 33 - 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 359 - These reveries he was permitted to enjoy, undisturbed by queries or interruption ; and it was in many a winter walk by the shores of Ulswater, that he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by adversity, than his former experience had given him ; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced.
Página 190 - Waverley could ask particulars, a strong, largeboned, hard-featured woman, about forty, dressed as if her clothes had been flung on with a pitchfork, her cheeks flushed with a scarlet red where they were not smutted with soot and lampblack, jostled through the crowd, and, brandishing high a child of two years old, which she danced in her arms, without regard to its screams of terror, sang forth, with all her might — " Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling, Charlie is my darling, The young...