Waverley Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortalityR. Cadell, 1843 |
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... persons , both living and dead , with whom I have had intercourse in society , should not have risen to my pen in such ... person before you in his individuality . Thus , the character of Jonathan Oldbuck , in the Antiquary , was partly ...
... persons , both living and dead , with whom I have had intercourse in society , should not have risen to my pen in such ... person before you in his individuality . Thus , the character of Jonathan Oldbuck , in the Antiquary , was partly ...
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... person , and thus carried about with him the principal part of his sustenance , which he literally received for the asking . At the houses of the gentry , his cheer was mended by scraps of broken meat , and perhaps a Scottish ...
... person , and thus carried about with him the principal part of his sustenance , which he literally received for the asking . At the houses of the gentry , his cheer was mended by scraps of broken meat , and perhaps a Scottish ...
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... person of conse- quence , flew round the circle which he frequented , as surely as the bon - mot of a man of established character for wit glides through the fashionable world . Many of his good things are held in remembrance , but are ...
... person of conse- quence , flew round the circle which he frequented , as surely as the bon - mot of a man of established character for wit glides through the fashionable world . Many of his good things are held in remembrance , but are ...
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... person , and I desire you will not stand there to slander me at my ain stairhead . " " The woman , " said the senior , looking with an arch glance at his destined travelling companion , " does not understand the words of action ...
... person , and I desire you will not stand there to slander me at my ain stairhead . " " The woman , " said the senior , looking with an arch glance at his destined travelling companion , " does not understand the words of action ...
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... person who kept a decent ordinary ; cautioning both of them apart , that he only knew Mr. Lovel as a pleasant companion in a post - chaise , and did not mean to guarantee any bills which he might contract while residing at Fairport ...
... person who kept a decent ordinary ; cautioning both of them apart , that he only knew Mr. Lovel as a pleasant companion in a post - chaise , and did not mean to guarantee any bills which he might contract while residing at Fairport ...
Términos y frases comunes
answered Antiquary arms auld Balfour better Bothwell Burley called canna Castle Caxon Claverhouse command Covenanters Cuddie dinna door Dousterswivel e'en Earl Earnscliff Edie Ochiltree Edith Ellieslaw Elshie Erastian exclaimed eyes Fairport father favour fear followed frae gang gentleman gude hand head hear heard Hector Henry Morton hinny Hobbie honour horse Ilderton insurgents Isabella Jenny Knockwinnock Lady Margaret leddy look Lord Evandale Lord Glenallan Lovel mair Major Bellenden maun mendicant Milnwood mind Miss Bellenden Miss Vere Miss Wardour Monkbarns mony morning Morton mother muckle never night occasion Old Mortality Oldbuck onything ower party person popinjay prisoner puir Ratcliffe replied Scotland seemed Sir Arthur soldier speak spirit suppose sword tell thae thee there's thou thought Tillietudlem voice wad hae weel whig woman word ye'll young
Pasajes populares
Página 64 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Página 106 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 517 - And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Página 497 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Página 98 - scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two-and-twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged : it could not be else : I have drunk medicines.
Página 322 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon ; and let men say, we be men of good government, being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
Página 252 - Beneficia eo usque laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere, pro gratia odium redditur.
Página 111 - As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Página 225 - Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare; Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Página 106 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side, My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood...