Waverley Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortalityR. Cadell, 1843 |
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... occasion violated the respect due to private life . It was indeed impossible that traits proper to persons , both living and dead , with whom I have had intercourse in society , should not have risen to my pen in such works as Waverley ...
... occasion violated the respect due to private life . It was indeed impossible that traits proper to persons , both living and dead , with whom I have had intercourse in society , should not have risen to my pen in such works as Waverley ...
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... occasion one of the Royal Chaplains preaches a sermon to the Bedesmen , who ( as one of the reverend gentlemen expressed himself ) are the most impatient and inattentive audience in the world . Something of this may arise from a feeling ...
... occasion one of the Royal Chaplains preaches a sermon to the Bedesmen , who ( as one of the reverend gentlemen expressed himself ) are the most impatient and inattentive audience in the world . Something of this may arise from a feeling ...
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... occasion , have served as a model for an artist , so remarkably striking were his ordinary attitudes . Andrew Gemmells had little of the cant of his calling ; his wants were food and shelter , or a trifle of money , which he always ...
... occasion , have served as a model for an artist , so remarkably striking were his ordinary attitudes . Andrew Gemmells had little of the cant of his calling ; his wants were food and shelter , or a trifle of money , which he always ...
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... occasion he observed , begging was in modern times scarcely the profession of a gentleman ; and that if he had twenty sons , he would not easily be induced to breed one of them up in his own line . When or where this laudator temporis ...
... occasion he observed , begging was in modern times scarcely the profession of a gentleman ; and that if he had twenty sons , he would not easily be induced to breed one of them up in his own line . When or where this laudator temporis ...
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... occasion like a bulletin ; for although that hour was pealed from Saint Giles's steeple , and repeated by the Tron , no coach appeared upon the appointed stand . It is true , only two tickets had been taken out , and possibly the lady ...
... occasion like a bulletin ; for although that hour was pealed from Saint Giles's steeple , and repeated by the Tron , no coach appeared upon the appointed stand . It is true , only two tickets had been taken out , and possibly the lady ...
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 252 - Beneficia eo usque laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere, pro gratia odium redditur.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...