Historical romances of the author of Waverley, المجلد 3 |
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... consider- ably his habits of life . He afforded , on all extra- ordinary occasions , to the Abbot , whether privately , or in the assembled Chapter , the support of his wisdom and experience ; but in his ordinary habits he THE ...
... consider- ably his habits of life . He afforded , on all extra- ordinary occasions , to the Abbot , whether privately , or in the assembled Chapter , the support of his wisdom and experience ; but in his ordinary habits he THE ...
الصفحة 34
... Abbot's own wastel - bread . For her temper , she sung and laughed from morning to night ; and for her for- tune , a material article , besides that which the Miller might have amassed by means of his pro- verbial golden thumb , Mysie ...
... Abbot's own wastel - bread . For her temper , she sung and laughed from morning to night ; and for her for- tune , a material article , besides that which the Miller might have amassed by means of his pro- verbial golden thumb , Mysie ...
الصفحة 44
... Abbot himself , if it were not a sin to say so . " Ay , " said the Miller ; " and is that the young clerk the Sub - Prior thinks so much upon ? they say he will come far ben that lad ; wha kens but he may come to be Sub - Prior himself ...
... Abbot himself , if it were not a sin to say so . " Ay , " said the Miller ; " and is that the young clerk the Sub - Prior thinks so much upon ? they say he will come far ben that lad ; wha kens but he may come to be Sub - Prior himself ...
الصفحة 46
... Abbot's ranger . " " Ranges he not homeward at dinner - time , dame , " demanded the Miller ; " for we call noon the dinner - hour at Kennaquhair ? " The widow was forced to admit , that , even at this important period of the day ...
... Abbot's ranger . " " Ranges he not homeward at dinner - time , dame , " demanded the Miller ; " for we call noon the dinner - hour at Kennaquhair ? " The widow was forced to admit , that , even at this important period of the day ...
الصفحة 52
... Abbot and the convent might possess , she did not believe there was so much real gold in the world as was exhibited in these few trinkets ; and Mary , however sage and serious , was not above being pleased with the admiration of her ...
... Abbot and the convent might possess , she did not believe there was so much real gold in the world as was exhibited in these few trinkets ; and Mary , however sage and serious , was not above being pleased with the admiration of her ...
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arms aught Baron betwixt blood brother called castle Christie church Clinthill companion countenance Dame Elspeth Dame Glendinning dare Earl Earl of Murray Edward Glendinning English knight Euphuist eyes fair faith fate Father Eustace fear feeling female gallant glen Glendearg guest Halbert Glendinning Halidome hand hath head heart Heaven Henry Warden holy honour horse Julian Avenel Kennaquhair looked Lord Abbot maiden Mary Avenel matter ment Miller Miller's daughter mind Molinara Monastery Monk Morton moss-trooper Murray Mysie Happer never noble pause person pray preacher present Refectioner replied reverence reverend Sacristan Saint Mary's Scotland seemed shalt shew Sir John Foster Sir Knight Sir Piercie Shafton sorrow Southron speak spirit stood stranger Sub-Prior sword tell thee ther thine thirlage thou art thou hast thought Tibb tion tone tower turn vassals venison voice White Lady wilt word young Glendinning youth
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الصفحة 242 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
الصفحة 352 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
الصفحة 13 - Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
الصفحة 57 - ... and inevitably-necessary-to-be-remembered manual of all that is worthy to be known — which indoctrines the rude in civility, the dull in intellectuality, the heavy in jocosity, the blunt in gentility, the vulgar in nobility, and all of them in that unutterable perfection of human utterance, that eloquence which no other eloquence is sufficient to praise, that art which, when we call it by its own name of Euphuism, we bestow on it its richest panegyric.
الصفحة 53 - Euphues and his England, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and reputation. The quaint, forced, and unnatural style which he introduced by his Anatomy of Wit...
الصفحة 330 - Shafton when he looked elsewhere, and were dropped at once when they encountered his, that she was irresistible ! In fine, the affectionate delicacy of her whole demeanour, joined to the promptitude and boldness she had so lately evinced, tended to ennoble the services she had rendered, as if some sweet engaging Grace Put on some clothes to come abroad, And took a waiter's place.
الصفحة 386 - ... he never would take money for them, and that I should have the whole advantage of all he wrote. This declaration became morally void when the question was about thousands, instead of a few hundreds ; and I perfectly agree with the admired and admirable Author of Waverley, that « the wise and good accept not gifts which are made in heat of blood, and which may be after repented of.
الصفحة 299 - should be removed to hallowed ground, and his soul secured by the prayers of the Church in his behalf." Grief would have its natural course, and the voice of the comforter was wasted in vain.