Waverley Novels: Vol. 6, Volume 6Cadell, 1844 - 617 páginas |
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... Udaller , the Scottish gentry having in eneral occupied the place of that primitive race , and their language and peculiarities of manner having entirely disappeared . The only difference now to 318 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... Udaller , the Scottish gentry having in eneral occupied the place of that primitive race , and their language and peculiarities of manner having entirely disappeared . The only difference now to 318 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
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... Udaller , it augured well of the expedition if Mordaunt Mertoun could be prevailed upon to undertake the office of skudler , or leader of the band . Upon these occasions , full of fun and frolic , he led his retinue from house to house ...
... Udaller , it augured well of the expedition if Mordaunt Mertoun could be prevailed upon to undertake the office of skudler , or leader of the band . Upon these occasions , full of fun and frolic , he led his retinue from house to house ...
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... Udaller's great partiality to the youth was con- sidered , nobody doubted that he might aspire to the hand of either of those distinguished beauties , with as large a share of islets , rocky moorland , and shore - fishings , as might be ...
... Udaller's great partiality to the youth was con- sidered , nobody doubted that he might aspire to the hand of either of those distinguished beauties , with as large a share of islets , rocky moorland , and shore - fishings , as might be ...
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... Udaller , " that when he lived among us , nobody ever made less use of it . " Mordaunt acquiesced both in what respected his father's taciturnity , and his dislike to general society ; but suggested , at the same time , that the first ...
... Udaller , " that when he lived among us , nobody ever made less use of it . " Mordaunt acquiesced both in what respected his father's taciturnity , and his dislike to general society ; but suggested , at the same time , that the first ...
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... Udaller , Magnus Troil , and the marriage - day is to be fixed whenever he makes choice ( set him up ! ) between the twa lasses ; and so it wad be as much as our good name is worth , and our quiet forby , to let him sit unserved ...
... Udaller , Magnus Troil , and the marriage - day is to be fixed whenever he makes choice ( set him up ! ) between the twa lasses ; and so it wad be as much as our good name is worth , and our quiet forby , to let him sit unserved ...
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Amy Robsart ancient answered Varney Anthony Foster apartment arms better betwixt Blount Brenda Bunce Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Castle Claud Halcro command countenance Countess Countess of Leicester court Cumnor daughter devil door Earl of Leicester Earl of Sussex Elizabeth exclaimed eyes fair father favour fear Flibbertigibbet followed gentleman guests hand hastily hath hear heard heart Heaven honest honour horse instantly islands Janet Jarlshof John Dryden Kenilworth Kenilworth Castle Kirkwall lady Leicester's look madam Magnus Troil Master Tressilian Mervyn's Michael Lambourne mind Minna mistress Mordaunt Mertoun never noble Norna once Orkney pedlar person poor present Queen Raleigh Saint Magnus seemed shew sister speak spoke stood stranger Sussex Swertha sword tell thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought tone Tony Foster Triptolemus Udaller voice Wayland Smith wild word Yellowley yonder young Zetland
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Página 489 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Página 561 - Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Página 8 - Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. 'Leicester...
Página 451 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides...
Página 164 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Página 8 - No lark more blithe, no flower more gay ; And like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. " If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized?
Página 565 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Página 8 - Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare. "But, Leicester, (or I much am wrong,) Or 'tis not beauty lures thy vows; Rather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee forget thy humble spouse. "Then, Leicester, why, again I plead, (The injured surely may repine,)— Why didst thou wed a country maid, When some fair princess might be thine?
Página 522 - A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 9 - The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless countess e'er was seen. And in that manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall.