The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, المجلد 2Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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الصفحة 15
... Lord Vincovincentem . " " Vincovincentem ? -Is he a lord of state , or a lord of seat ? " inquired Mrs. Howden . It may be necessary to mention , that Mr. Bartoline Saddletree kept an excellent and highly - esteemed shop for harness ...
... Lord Vincovincentem . " " Vincovincentem ? -Is he a lord of state , or a lord of seat ? " inquired Mrs. Howden . It may be necessary to mention , that Mr. Bartoline Saddletree kept an excellent and highly - esteemed shop for harness ...
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... Lord Stair , and Dame Margaret Ross , had engaged herself without the know- ledge of her parents to the Lord Rutherford , who was not ac- ceptable to them either on account of his political principles , or his want of fortune . The ...
... Lord Stair , and Dame Margaret Ross , had engaged herself without the know- ledge of her parents to the Lord Rutherford , who was not ac- ceptable to them either on account of his political principles , or his want of fortune . The ...
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... Lord Stair and his family was , as already noticed , written by Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw , a rival of Lord Stair for the situation of President of the Court of Session ; a person much inferior to that great lawyer in talents ...
... Lord Stair and his family was , as already noticed , written by Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw , a rival of Lord Stair for the situation of President of the Court of Session ; a person much inferior to that great lawyer in talents ...
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... Lord Ravenswood , the heir of this ruined family , was far from bending his mind to his new condition of life . In the civil war of 1689 , he had espoused the sinking side , and although he had escaped without the forfeiture of life or ...
... Lord Ravenswood , the heir of this ruined family , was far from bending his mind to his new condition of life . In the civil war of 1689 , he had espoused the sinking side , and although he had escaped without the forfeiture of life or ...
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... Lord Keeper had made large additions in the style of the seventeenth century . Allan Lord Ravenswood , the late proprietor of that ancient mansion and the large estate annexed to it , continued for some time to wage ineffectual war with ...
... Lord Keeper had made large additions in the style of the seventeenth century . Allan Lord Ravenswood , the late proprietor of that ancient mansion and the large estate annexed to it , continued for some time to wage ineffectual war with ...
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الصفحة 94 - Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God : for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
الصفحة 117 - Leddyship to have pity on a poor misguided young creature," in tones so affecting, that, like the notes of some of her native songs, provincial vulgarity was lost in pathos. "Stand up, young woman...
الصفحة 10 - One large stone only had found its way to the bottom, and in stopping the course of a small brook, which glided smoothly round the foot of the eminence, gave, by its opposition, a feeble voice of murmur to the placid and elsewhere silent streamlet. The human figures which completed this landscape were in number two, partaking, in their dress and appearance, of that wild and rustic character which belonged to the woodlands of the West Riding of Yorkshire at that early period.
الصفحة 26 - The prospect, in its general outline, commands a close-built, high-piled city, stretching itself out beneath in a form which, to a romantic imagination, may be supposed to represent that of a dragon; — now a noble arm of the sea, with its rocks, isles, distant shores, and boundary of mountains ; and now a fair and fertile champaign country, varied with hill, dale, and rock, and skirted by the picturesque ridge of the Pentland Mountains.
الصفحة 32 - To extricate himself from the stirrups and fallen steed. was to the Templar scarce the work of a moment; and stung with madness, both at his disgrace and at the acclamations with which it was hailed by the spectators, he drew his sword and waved it in defiance of his conqueror. The Disinherited Knight sprung from his steed, and also unsheathed his sword.
الصفحة 45 - Thou canst not mend that shot, Locksley,' said the Prince, with an insulting smile. 'I will notch his shaft for him, however,' replied Locksley. And letting fly his arrow with a little more precaution than before, it lighted right upon that of his competitor, which it split to shivers. The people who stood around were so astonished at his wonderful dexterity that they could not even give vent to their surprise in their usual clamour. 'This must be the devil, and no man of flesh and blood,' whispered...
الصفحة 45 - I will crave your Grace's permission to plant such a mark as is used in the North Country; and welcome every brave yeoman who shall try a shot at it to win a smile from the bonny lass he loves best." He then turned to leave the lists. "Let your guards attend me," he said, " if you please ; I go but to cut a rod from the next willow-bush.
الصفحة 32 - Templar aimed at the centre of his antagonist's shield, and struck it so fair and forcibly that his spear went to shivers, and the Disinherited Knight reeled in his saddle. On the other hand, that champion had in the beginning of his career directed the point of his...