Waverley Novels, Volumen14A. & C. Black, 1871 |
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Alsatia answered Lord apartment attended auld better betwixt Buckingham Captain citizen cloak Court Dame Ursley Dame Ursula daughter David Ramsay door Duke Hildebrod Duke of Buckingham Earl Enfield Chase exclaimed eyes father favour Fleet Street followed fortune Fortunes of Nigel frae gallant gentleman Geordie George Heriot goldsmith hand hastily hath hear heard honest honour James Jenkin Jin Vin John Christie King King's Lady Hermione London look Lord Dalgarno Lord Glenvarloch Lord Huntinglen Lord Nigel lordship Majesty Majesty's Martha Master George Master Heriot Master Lowestoffe maun means mind Mistress Margaret Monna Paula never Nigel Olifaunt noble person poor present pretty Prince replied Richie Moniplies royal Scotland Scots Scottish scrivener seemed Sir Mungo Malagrowther speak Steenie stood Suddlechop sword tell Templar thou thought tone Trapbois weel whilk Whitefriars word yonder young lord
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Página 138 - ejaculated James, while all the colour mounted both to his cheek and nose ; " I hope ye mean not to teach me divinity?
Página 12 - Le Sage, and others, emancipating themselves from the strictness of the rules he has laid down, have written rather a history of the miscellaneous adventures which befall an individual in the course of life, than the plot of a regular and connected epopeia, where every step brings us a point nearer to the final catastrophe.
Página 488 - Why, he could tell The inch where Richmond stood, where Richard fell, Besides what of his knowledge he could say, He had authentic notice from the play; Which I might guess...
Página 364 - A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance and horse to horse? Long years of havoc urge their destined course, And through the kindred squadrons mow their way. Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed, Revere his consort's faith, his father's fame, And spare the meek usurper's holy head!
Página 126 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes
Página 435 - So let them build it up, hard and fast, without delay, the rather that my back is sair with sitting in it for a whole hour. — And now let us see what the cooks have been doing for us, bonny bairns.
Página 423 - Geordie, Jingling Geordie, it was grand to hear Baby Charles laying down the guilt of dissimulation, and Steenie lecturing on the turpitude of incontinence.
Página 485 - Fair mein, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to tune his mind, Or manners, more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility ? Host. Ay, that was when the nursery's self was noble, And only virtue made it, not the market...
Página 485 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to tune his mind Or manners more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility?
Página 16 - When I light on such a character as Bailie Jarvie, or Dalgetty, my imagination brightens, and my conception becomes clearer at every step which I take in his company, although it leads me many a weary mile away from the regular road, and forces me leap hedge and ditch to get back into the route again.