Waverley Novels, Volume 2John C. Nimmo, 1898 |
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Pagina ix
... ( no great recommenda- tion ) ; but I never think of making verses till I have a suffi- cient stock of poetical ideas to supply them , I would as - soon join the Israelites in Egypt in their heavy task EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION ...
... ( no great recommenda- tion ) ; but I never think of making verses till I have a suffi- cient stock of poetical ideas to supply them , I would as - soon join the Israelites in Egypt in their heavy task EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION ...
Pagina xxiv
... tion of Meg Merrilies , the grandeur of her figure , the music of her songs , more than redeem the character of Dirk Hatteraick , even if we hold , with the " Edin- burgh " reviewer , that he is " a vulgar bandit of the German school ...
... tion of Meg Merrilies , the grandeur of her figure , the music of her songs , more than redeem the character of Dirk Hatteraick , even if we hold , with the " Edin- burgh " reviewer , that he is " a vulgar bandit of the German school ...
Pagina xxvii
... unavoidably attend his recep- tion and could not escape his eye . The lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. ...
... unavoidably attend his recep- tion and could not escape his eye . The lady of the house was , he said , confined to her apartment , and on the point of making her husband a father for the INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING. ...
Pagina xxix
... tion may beset him , my art cannot discover . " " " Your knowledge , then , can afford us no defence , " said the anxious father , " against the threatened evil ? " " Pardon me , ' " answered the stranger , " it can . The influence of ...
... tion may beset him , my art cannot discover . " " " Your knowledge , then , can afford us no defence , " said the anxious father , " against the threatened evil ? " " Pardon me , ' " answered the stranger , " it can . The influence of ...
Pagina xxxvi
... tion induced the Author to lay his purpose aside . It appeared , on mature consideration , that astrology , though its influence was once received and admitted by Bacon himself , does not now retain influence over the general mind ...
... tion induced the Author to lay his purpose aside . It appeared , on mature consideration , that astrology , though its influence was once received and admitted by Bacon himself , does not now retain influence over the general mind ...
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Allonby answered appearance astrologer auld Aweel bairn better called Captain castle character Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh devil deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie Sampson door Ellan Ellangowan father favour fear feelings fellow fire frae Frank Kennedy gentleman Glossin gowan gude Guy Mannering gypsy hand head heard heart honour horse Jabos Julia Kennedy kind Kippletringan laird land Liddesdale light look Lucy Bertram lugger Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's Matilda maun ment Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning muckle never night occasion ower person Pleydell poor postilion prisoner recollection replied round ruin scene Scotland seemed side sloop-of-war smugglers sort stranger suppose tell there's thought tion turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window woman wood Woodbourne young Hazlewood young lady younker