Historical romances of the author of Waverley, Volume 3 |
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... Wilt thou grant my re- quest , " he said , " fair Lady , and give to my keep- ing the holy book which Mary of Avenel has so often wept for ? ” The White Lady replied , Thy craven fear my truth accused , Thine idlehood my trust abused ...
... Wilt thou grant my re- quest , " he said , " fair Lady , and give to my keep- ing the holy book which Mary of Avenel has so often wept for ? ” The White Lady replied , Thy craven fear my truth accused , Thine idlehood my trust abused ...
Page 45
... wilt turn thy back on the mill , and wend with me , I will make a man of thee . ' But I chose rather to abide by clap and happer , and the better luck was mine ; for the proud Percy caused hang five of the Laird's henchmen at Alnwick ...
... wilt turn thy back on the mill , and wend with me , I will make a man of thee . ' But I chose rather to abide by clap and happer , and the better luck was mine ; for the proud Percy caused hang five of the Laird's henchmen at Alnwick ...
Page 84
... I reply , I cannot be too ambitious of Honour , sweet lady . ' Wilt not be good ? " - I think there is some remnant of this foppery preserved in masonic lodges . nity ; for as soon shall the gunner's linstock give 84 THE MONASTERY .
... I reply , I cannot be too ambitious of Honour , sweet lady . ' Wilt not be good ? " - I think there is some remnant of this foppery preserved in masonic lodges . nity ; for as soon shall the gunner's linstock give 84 THE MONASTERY .
Page 135
... wilt , No man shall say thee nay . William of Cloudesley . THE manners of the age did not permit the in- habitants of Glendearg to partake of the collation which was placed in the spence of that ancient tower , before the Lord Abbot and ...
... wilt , No man shall say thee nay . William of Cloudesley . THE manners of the age did not permit the in- habitants of Glendearg to partake of the collation which was placed in the spence of that ancient tower , before the Lord Abbot and ...
Page 160
... wilt save thyself from worse measure , to explain to me by what means thou hast moved our friend thus - We choose not that our vassals shall drive our guests mad in our very presence , and we remain ignorant of the means whereby that ...
... wilt save thyself from worse measure , to explain to me by what means thou hast moved our friend thus - We choose not that our vassals shall drive our guests mad in our very presence , and we remain ignorant of the means whereby that ...
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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.