Historical romances of the author of Waverley, المجلد 3 |
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... father's occasional visits were of no small consequence to Edward Glendinning and to Mary Avenel . The former displayed a power for apprehending and retaining whatever was taught him , which filled Father Eus- tace with admiration . He ...
... father's occasional visits were of no small consequence to Edward Glendinning and to Mary Avenel . The former displayed a power for apprehending and retaining whatever was taught him , which filled Father Eus- tace with admiration . He ...
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... Father proved to be mistaken in both these particulars . When he spoke to Elspeth Glendinning of that which a mother best loves to hear - the proficiency and abilities of her son she listened with a de- lighted ear . But when Father ...
... Father proved to be mistaken in both these particulars . When he spoke to Elspeth Glendinning of that which a mother best loves to hear - the proficiency and abilities of her son she listened with a de- lighted ear . But when Father ...
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... father's place , remain in the tower , and close her eyes . On such occasions the Sub - Prior would answer , that even in a worldly point of view the welfare of the family would be best consulted by one of the sons entering into the ...
... father's place , remain in the tower , and close her eyes . On such occasions the Sub - Prior would answer , that even in a worldly point of view the welfare of the family would be best consulted by one of the sons entering into the ...
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... father's old broad - sword - suspended it by a belt round his waist , and seldom stirred without it . He was a sweet ... father , and ye bereave my house of prop and pillar ; for my heart tells me that Halbert will take to his father's ...
... father's old broad - sword - suspended it by a belt round his waist , and seldom stirred without it . He was a sweet ... father , and ye bereave my house of prop and pillar ; for my heart tells me that Halbert will take to his father's ...
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... father , upon whom her innocent and infantine beauty had an effect of which he was himself , perhaps , unconscious . Her rank and expectations entitled her to be taught the arts of reading and writing ; -and each lesson which the Monk ...
... father , upon whom her innocent and infantine beauty had an effect of which he was himself , perhaps , unconscious . Her rank and expectations entitled her to be taught the arts of reading and writing ; -and each lesson which the Monk ...
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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.