Waverley Novels, Volumen27Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, and Whittaker & Company London., 1831 |
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Alsatia answered Nigel apartment arms Baby Charles betwixt called cloak Court Dame Ursley daughter door Duke Hildebrod Enfield Chase exclaimed eyes father favour fool fortune FORTUNES OF NIGEL gentleman Geordie George Heriot gold Greenwich Greenwich Park hand hastily hath hear heard honest honour Jenkin Jin Vin John Christie Kilderkin King King's knew Lady Hermione Lady Lake look Lord Dalgarno Lord Glen Lord Glenvarloch Lord Huntinglen lordship madam maiden Majesty Majesty's Martha Master George Master Heriot Master Lowestoffe means ment mind Monna Paula never noble old Trapbois Olifaunt Oliphaunt passed person pistols poor pray present Prince Ramsay Richie Moniplies royal Scotland Scottish scrivener seemed Sir Mungo speak Steenie sure sword tell thee thing thou thought tion tone Tower of London unhappy varloch villain warder weel whilk woman word XXVII yonder young
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Página 339 - We are not worst at once ; the course of evil Begins so slowly, and from such slight source, An infant's hand might stem its breach with clay. But let the stream get deeper, and philosophy — Ay, and religion too — shall strive in vain To turn the headlong torrent. Old Play.
Página 167 - For ourselves, we can assure the reader — and perhaps if we have ever been able to afford him amusement, it is owing in a great degree to this cause — that we never found ourselves in company with the stupidest of all possible companions in a post-chaise, or with the most arrant cumber-corner that ever occupied a place in the mail-coach...
Página 324 - To this brave man the knight repairs For counsel in his law affairs ; And found him mounted in his pew, With books and money placed for show, Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.
Página 303 - O Geordie, Jingling Geordie, it was grand to hear Baby Charles laying down the guilt of dissimulation, and Steenie lecturing on the turpitude of incontinence ! ' * I am afraid,' said George Heriot, more hastily than prudently, ' I might have thought of the old proverb of Satan reproving sin.