Waverley Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortalityR. Cadell, 1843 |
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... respecting the character of Jonathan Oldbuck . " I may here state generally , that although I have deemed historical personages free subjects of delineation , I have never on any occasion violated the respect due to private life . It ...
... respecting the character of Jonathan Oldbuck . " I may here state generally , that although I have deemed historical personages free subjects of delineation , I have never on any occasion violated the respect due to private life . It ...
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... respect of persons , his patched cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester . To be a gude crack , that is , to possess talents for conversation , was essential to the trade of a puir body " of the more esteemed class ; and ...
... respect of persons , his patched cloak giving him the privilege of the ancient jester . To be a gude crack , that is , to possess talents for conversation , was essential to the trade of a puir body " of the more esteemed class ; and ...
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... respect which the Scotch innkeepers of the old school used to assume towards their more valued customers . " Have a care o ' us , Monkbarns ! " ( distinguishing him by his territorial epithet , always most agreeable to the ear of a ...
... respect which the Scotch innkeepers of the old school used to assume towards their more valued customers . " Have a care o ' us , Monkbarns ! " ( distinguishing him by his territorial epithet , always most agreeable to the ear of a ...
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... respect for the Laird of Monkbarns , augmented by the knowledge of his being a ready - money man , kept up his consequence with this class of his neighbours . The country gentlemen were generally above him in fortune , and beneath him ...
... respect for the Laird of Monkbarns , augmented by the knowledge of his being a ready - money man , kept up his consequence with this class of his neighbours . The country gentlemen were generally above him in fortune , and beneath him ...
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... respects mean : his first thought was to save his fellow - traveller any part of the expense of the entertainment , which he supposed must be in his situation more or less inconvenient . He therefore took an opportunity of settling ...
... respects mean : his first thought was to save his fellow - traveller any part of the expense of the entertainment , which he supposed must be in his situation more or less inconvenient . He therefore took an opportunity of settling ...
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...