Waverley Novels: The monastery. The abbotR. Cadell, 1844 |
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... observed , that the lighter and trivial branches of antiquarian study are singularly useful in relieving vacuity of such a kind , and have known them serve many a Captain Clutterbuck to retreat upon ; I was therefore a good deal ...
... observed , that the lighter and trivial branches of antiquarian study are singularly useful in relieving vacuity of such a kind , and have known them serve many a Captain Clutterbuck to retreat upon ; I was therefore a good deal ...
الصفحة 11
... observe how many dramatic jeux d'esprit are well received every season , because the satirist levels at some well - known or fashionable absurdity ; or , in the dramatic phrase , " shoots folly as it flies . " But when the peculiar kind ...
... observe how many dramatic jeux d'esprit are well received every season , because the satirist levels at some well - known or fashionable absurdity ; or , in the dramatic phrase , " shoots folly as it flies . " But when the peculiar kind ...
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... observed that it influenced them in the actual affair— that exuberant zeal , which courts Danger as a bride , -truly ... observation , that they were all bothered with something or other like duty or labour - all but the happy Captain ...
... observed that it influenced them in the actual affair— that exuberant zeal , which courts Danger as a bride , -truly ... observation , that they were all bothered with something or other like duty or labour - all but the happy Captain ...
الصفحة 17
... observation , " What needs I say ony mair about it ? There's the Captain kens mair anent it than I do , or any man in the town . " Then would I salute the strangers courteously , and expatiate to their astonished minds upon crypts and ...
... observation , " What needs I say ony mair about it ? There's the Captain kens mair anent it than I do , or any man in the town . " Then would I salute the strangers courteously , and expatiate to their astonished minds upon crypts and ...
الصفحة 21
... observation he made in a tone of perfect good - humour . I pricked up my ears at the hint , and answered as politely as I could , that my ignorance of his condition and rank could be the only cause of ... observed INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE . 21.
... observation he made in a tone of perfect good - humour . I pricked up my ears at the hint , and answered as politely as I could , that my ignorance of his condition and rank could be the only cause of ... observed INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE . 21.
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Adam Woodcock answered apartment Auchtermuchty Baron betwixt blood brother called Catherine Seyton Christie church command companion Dame Glendinning door Douglas Dryfesdale Earl Earl of Murray Edward Elspeth Euphuist eyes fair faith falconer Father Eustace favour fear glen Glendearg grace Halidome hand hath head heard heart Heaven heretic holy Holyrood honour horse Julian Avenel Kennaquhair knight Lady Fleming Lady Lochleven Lady of Avenel Lady of Lochleven Lilias Lindesay look Lord Abbot Lord Ruthven madam Magdalen Græme maiden Mary Avenel Mary Stewart master Melrose Abbey mind mistress Molinara Monastery monk Morton Murray Mysie never noble once person preacher present Queen Queen Mary Regent replied reverend Robert Melville Roland Græme Sacristan Saint Mary's Scotland Scottish seemed shew Sir Piercie Shafton Southron speak spirit stood Sub-Prior sword thee thine thou hast thought Tibb tone tower turned woman word young youth
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الصفحة 381 - As when in tumults rise the ignoble crowd, Mad are their motions and their tongues are loud ; And stones and brands in rattling volleys fly, And all the rustic arms that fury can supply. If then some grave and pious man appear, They hush their noise and lend a listening ear ; He soothes with sober words their angry mood, And quenches their innate desire of blood.
الصفحة 208 - If the law Find me, and then condemn me for't, some wenches, Some honest-hearted maids, will sing my dirge, And tell to memory my death was noble, Dying almost a martyr.
الصفحة 375 - Sir, this is a busy day with us. We cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's Day."' The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not.
الصفحة 375 - The church stood in my way, and I took my horse and my company, and went thither (I thought I should have found a great company in the church), and when I came there the church doore was fast locked.
الصفحة 219 - 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 550 - She repented nothing but (when the Lords and others at Inverness came in the morning from the watch) that she was not a man, to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
الصفحة 227 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
الصفحة 278 - We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ; not in the root, but in the stem; for we know not which is the mean man that did rise above the vulgar.