Waverley Novels ...: The monasteryBlack, 1853 |
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الصفحة 31
... holy pale . The efforts of an individual obscure and humble as myself , might well retard , but could never advance , a work so mighty . " " May I then inquire , sir , " said I , " with what purpose you seek this country ? " Ere my ...
... holy pale . The efforts of an individual obscure and humble as myself , might well retard , but could never advance , a work so mighty . " " May I then inquire , sir , " said I , " with what purpose you seek this country ? " Ere my ...
الصفحة 33
... holy and worthy man to a country , where religion and virtue are become the mockery of the scorner ? I have now a home , which I trust may be permanent , if any thing in this earth can be termed so . Thither will I transport the heart ...
... holy and worthy man to a country , where religion and virtue are become the mockery of the scorner ? I have now a home , which I trust may be permanent , if any thing in this earth can be termed so . Thither will I transport the heart ...
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... holy rood , whisht , man , " said the good- wife , " our leddy is half gane already , as ye may see by that fleightering of the ee - lid - a word mair and she's dead outright . " " I could almost wish , " said Martin , " we were a ...
... holy rood , whisht , man , " said the good- wife , " our leddy is half gane already , as ye may see by that fleightering of the ee - lid - a word mair and she's dead outright . " " I could almost wish , " said Martin , " we were a ...
الصفحة 68
... but when the leddy was reading to us about the holy Saints ? May ne'er be in my fingers , if I dinna sort ye baith for it ! " The eldest boy bent his eyes on the ground , the younger began to weep , but neither 68 THE MONASTERY .
... but when the leddy was reading to us about the holy Saints ? May ne'er be in my fingers , if I dinna sort ye baith for it ! " The eldest boy bent his eyes on the ground , the younger began to weep , but neither 68 THE MONASTERY .
الصفحة 74
... holy father , " answered the Sacristan , " and unable to bear the journey . " " True - ay - yes then must one of our brethren go to her -Knowest thou if she hath aught of a jointure from this Walter de Avenel ? " " Very little , holy ...
... holy father , " answered the Sacristan , " and unable to bear the journey . " " True - ay - yes then must one of our brethren go to her -Knowest thou if she hath aught of a jointure from this Walter de Avenel ? " " Very little , holy ...
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answered aught Baron Benedictine better betwixt blood brethren brother called castle Christie church Clinthill Colmslie companion Dame Elspeth Dame Glendinning Earl Earl of Murray Edward English knight Euphuist eyes faith Father Eustace Father Philip fear feeling gallant give glen guest Halbert Glendinning Halidome hand hath head heart Heaven Henry Warden heretic holy honour horse Jedediah Cleishbotham Julian Avenel Kennaquhair Lady of Avenel looked Lord Abbot maiden Martin Mary Avenel matter Miller mind Molinara Monastery monk Morton moss-troopers Murray Mysie Happer never noble once person pray preacher present replied reverence Rowland Yorke Sacristan Saint Mary's Scotland Scottish seemed shew Sir Knight Sir Piercie Shafton Southron speak spirit stranger Sub-Prior sword tell thee thine thou hast thought Tibb tion tone Tower of Glendearg turn vassals voice White Lady wild William de Douglas woman word youth
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الصفحة 285 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
الصفحة 129 - 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 42 - This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of time and space — this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes — was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings.
الصفحة 43 - I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame and their own opinions than the national regiments are supposed to be jealous of the high character which they have won upon service. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-fifth year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man had his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's command.
الصفحة 275 - The more to please the sprightly god, Each sweet engaging Grace Put on some clothes to come abroad, And took a waiter's place.
الصفحة 359 - Philautia, my Honour ; and she calls me, her Ambition. Now, when I meet her in the presence anon, I will come to her, and say, Sweet Honour, I have hitherto contented my sense with the lilies of your hand, but now I will taste the roses of your lip ; and withal, kiss her : to which she cannot but blushing answer, Nay, now you are too ambitious.
الصفحة 238 - Come from the hills where your hirsels are grazing, Come from the glen of the buck and the roe; Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing, Come with the buckler, the lance, and the bow. Trumpets are sounding, War-steeds...
الصفحة 8 - Fouque composed in German, one of the most successful productions of his fertile brain, where a beautiful and even afflicting effect is produced by the introduction of a waternymph, who loses the privilege of immortality by consenting to become accessible to human feelings, and uniting her lot with that of a mortal, who treats her with ingratitude. In imitation of an example so successful, the White Lady of Avenel was introduced into the story.