Waverly Novels: Guy ManneringA. and C. Black, 1878 |
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Allonby ANDREW CROSBY appearance arms auld Aweel Baronet better called canna Captain CARLAVEROCK CASTLE carriage Charles Hazlewood Colonel Mannering counsellor Dandie dear Derncleugh deyvil Dinmont dinna Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door Edinburgh Ellangowan exclaimed eyes father favour feelings fellow frae gentleman gipsy Glossin GUY MANNERING hand Harry Bertram Hazle Hazlewood of Hazlewood Hazlewood-House hear heard honest honour horse interest Julia justice Kippletringan lawyer Liddesdale look Lord Monboddo Lucy Bertram Mac-Candlish Mac-Guffog Mac-Morlan mair Mannering's maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning murder naething never night occasion ower person Pleydell Portanferry prisoner recollection replied respect Sampson Scotland Singleside Sir Robert Hazlewood smugglers stood stranger tell there's thing thought turned Vanbeest Brown voice Warroch weel window wood Woodbourne ye'll young Hazlewood young ladies younker
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Page 19 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 232 - Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks.
Page 192 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Page 96 - But this poor farce has neither truth nor art To please the fancy or to touch the heart. Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around. Parish Register. 'YouR majesty,' said Mannering, laughing, 'has solemnised your abdication by an act of mercy and charity. That fellow will scarce think of going to law.
Page 78 - Give me a cup of sack, to make mine eyes look red, that it may be thought I have wept ; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in king Cambyses
Page 103 - I am a member of the suffering and Episcopal Church of Scotland — the shadow of a shade now, and fortunately so ; — but I love to pray where my fathers prayed before me, without thinking worse of the Presbyterian forms, because they do not affect me with the same associations.
Page 338 - For though, seduced and led astray, Thou'st travell'd far and wander'd long, Thy God hath seen thee all the way, And all the turns that led thee wrong. The Hall of Justice.
Page 157 - How often do we find ourselves in society which we have never before met, and yet feel impressed with a mysterious and ill-defined consciousness, that neither the scene, the speakers, nor the subject, are entirely new? ; nay, feel as if we could anticipate that part of the conversation which has not yet taken place...
Page 104 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Page 324 - Henry Bertram, and sung ye sangs of the auld barons and their bloody wars — It will ne'er be green again, and Meg Merrilies will never sing sangs mair, be they blithe or sad. But...