The Waverley Novels, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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... thing no easily put out o ' memory ; and if my presence be judged necessary , nae doubt I maun gang wi ' your honour . But I was gaun to tell your honour of ane that has mair skeel of the gate than me , and that's e'en Madge Wildfire ...
... thing no easily put out o ' memory ; and if my presence be judged necessary , nae doubt I maun gang wi ' your honour . But I was gaun to tell your honour of ane that has mair skeel of the gate than me , and that's e'en Madge Wildfire ...
Pagina 3
... thing . " Accordingly , like a defeated general , sad and sulky , he led back his discomfited forces to the metropolis , and dismissed them for the night . The next morning early , he was under the neces- sity of making his report to ...
... thing . " Accordingly , like a defeated general , sad and sulky , he led back his discomfited forces to the metropolis , and dismissed them for the night . The next morning early , he was under the neces- sity of making his report to ...
Pagina 9
... thing of a kindred genius , had been intercessor in his behalf with the magistrates , and the circumstance of his having voluntarily remained in the prison , when the doors were forced by the mob , would have made it a hard measure to ...
... thing of a kindred genius , had been intercessor in his behalf with the magistrates , and the circumstance of his having voluntarily remained in the prison , when the doors were forced by the mob , would have made it a hard measure to ...
Pagina 10
... thing about it , " said Jeanie . " Ye may be sure he had ower inuckle to do to save himsell , to speak lang or muckle about ony body beside . " " That's no true , Jeanie , though a saunt had said it , " replied Effie , with a sparkle of ...
... thing about it , " said Jeanie . " Ye may be sure he had ower inuckle to do to save himsell , to speak lang or muckle about ony body beside . " " That's no true , Jeanie , though a saunt had said it , " replied Effie , with a sparkle of ...
Pagina 11
... thing o ' him , that's like goodness or kind- I wadna wuss ony living creature to do a wrang thing ness , ye wadna wonder that I wish to hear of him ! " to save my life . I might have fled frae this tolbooth Jeanie sighed , and ...
... thing o ' him , that's like goodness or kind- I wadna wuss ony living creature to do a wrang thing ness , ye wadna wonder that I wish to hear of him ! " to save my life . I might have fled frae this tolbooth Jeanie sighed , and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 61 - But when the hour of trouble comes to the mind or to the body — and seldom may it visit your Leddyship — and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low — lang and late may it be yours — O, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Pagina 276 - Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, "every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the Jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swine-herd. "I am very glad every fool knows that too...
Pagina 275 - ... delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of silvan solitude. Here the red rays of the sun shot a broken and discoloured light, that partially hung upon the shattered boughs and mossy trunks of the trees, and there they illuminated in brilliant patches the portions of turf to which they made their way. A considerable open space, in the midst of this glade, seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidical...
Pagina 274 - Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself, while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude.