Historical romances of the author of Waverley, Volume 3 |
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... knight of the sixteenth century interlarded his conversa- tion , were as much the offspring of egotism and self - conceit , as the jargon of the coxcombs of our own days . The English knight was , however , something daunted at finding ...
... knight of the sixteenth century interlarded his conversa- tion , were as much the offspring of egotism and self - conceit , as the jargon of the coxcombs of our own days . The English knight was , however , something daunted at finding ...
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... English cavalier . A little specimen of the conversation may not be out of place , were it but to shew ladies young what fine things they have lost by living when Eu- phuism is out of fashion . " Credit me , fairest lady , " said the knight ...
... English cavalier . A little specimen of the conversation may not be out of place , were it but to shew ladies young what fine things they have lost by living when Eu- phuism is out of fashion . " Credit me , fairest lady , " said the knight ...
Page 68
... Knight , " said Mary , " to spare your courtly similitudes for refined ears , and give mẹ leave to name unto you my foster - brother , Hal- bert Glendinning . " " The son of the good dame of the cottage , as I opine , " answered the English ...
... Knight , " said Mary , " to spare your courtly similitudes for refined ears , and give mẹ leave to name unto you my foster - brother , Hal- bert Glendinning . " " The son of the good dame of the cottage , as I opine , " answered the English ...
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... knight thought proper to change his posture , raise his eyes , draw in his legs , fix his eyes on young Glendinning ... English knight gaped twice or thrice before he answered , and then replied in a bantering tone , " Truly , good ...
... knight thought proper to change his posture , raise his eyes , draw in his legs , fix his eyes on young Glendinning ... English knight gaped twice or thrice before he answered , and then replied in a bantering tone , " Truly , good ...
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... English knight . Here he found the Lord Abbot , for whom a cushion , composed of all the plaids in the house , had been unable to ren- der Simon's huge elbow - chair a soft or comfortable place of rest . " Benedicite ! " said Abbot ...
... English knight . Here he found the Lord Abbot , for whom a cushion , composed of all the plaids in the house , had been unable to ren- der Simon's huge elbow - chair a soft or comfortable place of rest . " Benedicite ! " said Abbot ...
Common terms and phrases
arms aught Baron betwixt blood brother called castle Christie church Clinthill companion countenance Dame Elspeth Dame Glendinning dare Earl Earl of Murray Edward Glendinning English knight Euphuist eyes fair faith fate Father Eustace fear feeling female gallant glen Glendearg guest Halbert Glendinning Halidome hand hath head heart Heaven Henry Warden holy honour horse Julian Avenel Kennaquhair looked Lord Abbot maiden Mary Avenel matter ment Miller Miller's daughter mind Molinara Monastery Monk Morton moss-trooper Murray Mysie Happer never noble pause person pray preacher present Refectioner replied reverence reverend Sacristan Saint Mary's Scotland seemed shalt shew Sir John Foster Sir Knight Sir Piercie Shafton sorrow Southron speak spirit stood stranger Sub-Prior sword tell thee ther thine thirlage thou art thou hast thought Tibb tion tone tower turn vassals venison voice White Lady wilt word young Glendinning youth
Popular passages
Page 242 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 352 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 13 - 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.
Page 57 - ... and inevitably-necessary-to-be-remembered manual of all that is worthy to be known — which indoctrines the rude in civility, the dull in intellectuality, the heavy in jocosity, the blunt in gentility, the vulgar in nobility, and all of them in that unutterable perfection of human utterance, that eloquence which no other eloquence is sufficient to praise, that art which, when we call it by its own name of Euphuism, we bestow on it its richest panegyric.
Page 53 - Euphues and his England, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and reputation. The quaint, forced, and unnatural style which he introduced by his Anatomy of Wit...
Page 330 - 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.
Page 386 - ... he never would take money for them, and that I should have the whole advantage of all he wrote. This declaration became morally void when the question was about thousands, instead of a few hundreds ; and I perfectly agree with the admired and admirable Author of Waverley, that « the wise and good accept not gifts which are made in heat of blood, and which may be after repented of.
Page 299 - should be removed to hallowed ground, and his soul secured by the prayers of the Church in his behalf." Grief would have its natural course, and the voice of the comforter was wasted in vain.