Historical romances of the author of Waverley, Volume 3 |
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... youth's own eon- sent might be easily obtained , as he was of a calm , contemplative , retired habit , and seemed to con- sider knowledge as the principal object , and its en- largement as the greatest pleasure , in life . As to the ...
... youth's own eon- sent might be easily obtained , as he was of a calm , contemplative , retired habit , and seemed to con- sider knowledge as the principal object , and its en- largement as the greatest pleasure , in life . As to the ...
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... Youth of the dark eye , wherefore didst thou call me ? Wherefore art thou here , if terrors can appal thee ? He that seeks to deal with us must know nor fear nor failing ! To coward and churl our speech is dark , our gifts are unavail ...
... Youth of the dark eye , wherefore didst thou call me ? Wherefore art thou here , if terrors can appal thee ? He that seeks to deal with us must know nor fear nor failing ! To coward and churl our speech is dark , our gifts are unavail ...
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... youth , immediately re- peated- " Mortal warp and mortal woof , Cannot brook this charmed roof ; All that mortal art hath wrought , In our cell returns to nought . The molten gold returns to clay , The polish'd diamond melts away ; All ...
... youth , immediately re- peated- " Mortal warp and mortal woof , Cannot brook this charmed roof ; All that mortal art hath wrought , In our cell returns to nought . The molten gold returns to clay , The polish'd diamond melts away ; All ...
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... youth was surprised to observe , that the shadows had fallen far to the east , and that the day was well nigh spent . He gazed on his con- ductress for explanation , but her figure began to fade before his eyes - her cheeks grew paler ...
... youth was surprised to observe , that the shadows had fallen far to the east , and that the day was well nigh spent . He gazed on his con- ductress for explanation , but her figure began to fade before his eyes - her cheeks grew paler ...
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... youth stood silent and astonished for a few minutes . It seemed to him that the extraordinary Being he had seen , half his terror , half his protect- ress , was still hovering on the gale which swept past him , and that she might again ...
... youth stood silent and astonished for a few minutes . It seemed to him that the extraordinary Being he had seen , half his terror , half his protect- ress , was still hovering on the gale which swept past him , and that she might again ...
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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
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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.