Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised, Volúmenes9-10 |
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... only excepted ) must have seen more of the manners and cus- toms of various tribes and people , than if I had sought them out by my own painful travel and bodily labour 1 * VOL . I. • Even so doth the tollman at the well -
... only excepted ) must have seen more of the manners and cus- toms of various tribes and people , than if I had sought them out by my own painful travel and bodily labour 1 * VOL . I. • Even so doth the tollman at the well -
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... seen states and men also ; for I have visited the famous cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow , the former twice and the latter three times in the course of my earthly pilgrimage . And , moreover , I had the honour to sit in the General ...
... seen states and men also ; for I have visited the famous cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow , the former twice and the latter three times in the course of my earthly pilgrimage . And , moreover , I had the honour to sit in the General ...
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... seen the auld peel - house wa's pu'd down to make park dykes ; and the * We have in this , and other instances , printed in italics some few words which the worthy editor , Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham , seems to have interpolat- ed upon ...
... seen the auld peel - house wa's pu'd down to make park dykes ; and the * We have in this , and other instances , printed in italics some few words which the worthy editor , Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham , seems to have interpolat- ed upon ...
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... seen that braw sunny knowe a ' riven out wi ' the pleugh in the fashion it is at this day . " " Hout , Bauldie , " replied the principal , " tak ye that dram the landlord's offering ye , and never fash your head about the changes o ...
... seen that braw sunny knowe a ' riven out wi ' the pleugh in the fashion it is at this day . " " Hout , Bauldie , " replied the principal , " tak ye that dram the landlord's offering ye , and never fash your head about the changes o ...
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... seen , excepting three red- wud raes , that never let me within shot of them , though I gaed a mile round to get up the wind to them , an ' a ' . Deil o ' me wad care muckle , only I wanted some veni- son to our auld gude - dame . The ...
... seen , excepting three red- wud raes , that never let me within shot of them , though I gaed a mile round to get up the wind to them , an ' a ' . Deil o ' me wad care muckle , only I wanted some veni- son to our auld gude - dame . The ...
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answered arms auld Balfour blood body Bothwell Burley called canna Castle cause Claverhouse Colonel Grahame command Cornet Covenant Covenanters Cuddie dinna door dragoons Duke of Monmouth Dwarf e'en Earnscliff Edith Ellieslaw Elliot Elshie enemy Erastian Evandale's exclaimed eyes father favour fear followed frae gentleman gude Gudyill Halliday hand head hear heard heart Henry Morton hinny Hobbie honour horse Ilderton insurgents Isabella Jenny Kettledrummle Lady Margaret leddy look Lord Evandale Macbriar mair Major Bellenden Mareschal maun Mause Milnwood misanthropy Miss Bellenden Miss Vere morning mother muckle never Old Mortality onything ower party person popinjay Poundtext presbyterian prisoner puir Ratcliffe replied Morton Scotland seemed Sir Frederick soldiers speak sword thae thee there's thou Tillietudlem tion Tower voice weel Westburnflat whig woman word ye'll young
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Página 167 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Página 196 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 54 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 48 - Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered : for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 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 1 the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Página 20 - Ziou is his seat. There arrows of the bow he brake, The shield, the sword, the war, More glorious thou than hills of prey, More excellent art far.
Página 15 - To save the expense of Christian blood, And try if we, by mediation Of treaty, and accommodation, » Can end the quarrel, and compose This bloody duel without blows.
Página 166 - ... to soften obstinacy; and whose very powers of intellect have been confounded by hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius, with which his solitary fancy is most gratified...
Página 180 - ... in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change-house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under his auspices, and, if he was able to sustain it, at his expense.
Página 177 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 232 - Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheelingliill.