Waverley Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortalityR. Cadell, 1843 |
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... received both in the farmer's ha ' , and in the kitchens of the country gentlemen . Martin , author of the Reliquiæ Divi Sancti Andreæ , written in 1683 , gives the following account of one class of this order of men in the seventeenth ...
... received both in the farmer's ha ' , and in the kitchens of the country gentlemen . Martin , author of the Reliquiæ Divi Sancti Andreæ , written in 1683 , gives the following account of one class of this order of men in the seventeenth ...
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... received for the asking . At the houses of the gentry , his cheer was mended by scraps of broken meat , and perhaps a Scottish " twalpenny , " or English penny , which was expended in snuff or whisky . In fact , these indolent ...
... received for the asking . At the houses of the gentry , his cheer was mended by scraps of broken meat , and perhaps a Scottish " twalpenny , " or English penny , which was expended in snuff or whisky . In fact , these indolent ...
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... received on its first appearance as either of its predecessors , though in course of time it rose to equal , and , with some readers , superior popularity . Me Antiquary Chapter the First . Go call a coach 6 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... received on its first appearance as either of its predecessors , though in course of time it rose to equal , and , with some readers , superior popularity . Me Antiquary Chapter the First . Go call a coach 6 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
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... received was of a general and less authentic nature , but quite sufficient to make him acquainted with the name , history , and circumstances of the gentleman , whom we shall endeavour , in a few words , to introduce more accurately to ...
... received was of a general and less authentic nature , but quite sufficient to make him acquainted with the name , history , and circumstances of the gentleman , whom we shall endeavour , in a few words , to introduce more accurately to ...
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... received as ground - rent from their vassals ; for , with the prudence belonging to their order , all their conventional revenues were made payable in kind , and hence , as the present proprietor loved to tell came the name of Monkbarns ...
... received as ground - rent from their vassals ; for , with the prudence belonging to their order , all their conventional revenues were made payable in kind , and hence , as the present proprietor loved to tell came the name of Monkbarns ...
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...