Waverley Novels: Vol. 6, Volume 6Cadell, 1844 - 617 páginas |
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... live by Stand and Deliver ; and yet to - morrow you will find them a set of as pains - taking mechanics , and so forth , as ever cut an inch short of measure , or paid a letter of change in light crowns over a counter . The mercer there ...
... live by Stand and Deliver ; and yet to - morrow you will find them a set of as pains - taking mechanics , and so forth , as ever cut an inch short of measure , or paid a letter of change in light crowns over a counter . The mercer there ...
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... lives and thrives , " said the host . " But , kinsman , I would not have you call him Tony Fire - the - Fagot , if you would not brook the stab . " " How ! is he grown ashamed on't ? " said Lambourne ; " why he was wont to boast of it ...
... lives and thrives , " said the host . " But , kinsman , I would not have you call him Tony Fire - the - Fagot , if you would not brook the stab . " " How ! is he grown ashamed on't ? " said Lambourne ; " why he was wont to boast of it ...
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... lives as master of the Manor- house . Above all , he was poor and is rich . Folk talk of private apartments in his old waste mansion - house , bedizened fine enough to serve the Queen , God bless her . Some men think he found a treasure ...
... lives as master of the Manor- house . Above all , he was poor and is rich . Folk talk of private apartments in his old waste mansion - house , bedizened fine enough to serve the Queen , God bless her . Some men think he found a treasure ...
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... live by the free exercise of our wits ! Had I answered you question by saying that it was simple curiosity which led me to visit my old comrad Anthony Foster , I warrant you had set it down for an evasion , and a turn of my trade But ...
... live by the free exercise of our wits ! Had I answered you question by saying that it was simple curiosity which led me to visit my old comrad Anthony Foster , I warrant you had set it down for an evasion , and a turn of my trade But ...
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... live by the counting of chances - Compute me the odds that I do not , on this instant , throw you out of that window into the ditch there . " " Twenty to one that you do not , " answered the sturdy visiter . " And wherefore , I pray you ...
... live by the counting of chances - Compute me the odds that I do not , on this instant , throw you out of that window into the ditch there . " " Twenty to one that you do not , " answered the sturdy visiter . " And wherefore , I pray you ...
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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.