The novels of sir Walter Scott, with all his introductions and notes, Volumen1 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 12
... called by his companions the Black Rider of Cheviot . I fear , I fear he comes hither for no good — but if the Lord of Cessford be near , he will not dare offer any unprovoked outrage . " " I have heard of that chief , ” said the Baron ...
... called by his companions the Black Rider of Cheviot . I fear , I fear he comes hither for no good — but if the Lord of Cessford be near , he will not dare offer any unprovoked outrage . " " I have heard of that chief , ” said the Baron ...
Página 15
... called Rag- ged Robins , all meetly arrayed in Kendal green , with bugles and short hangers by their sides , and quarterstaffs in their hands , led the slow - hounds or brachets , by which the deer were to be put up . Ten brace of ...
... called Rag- ged Robins , all meetly arrayed in Kendal green , with bugles and short hangers by their sides , and quarterstaffs in their hands , led the slow - hounds or brachets , by which the deer were to be put up . Ten brace of ...
Página 24
... called . His food was brought to him by one of his daughters , a child of eight years old , whom Mrs Stewart was under the ne- cessity of intrusting with this commission ; for her own motions , and those of all her elder inmates , were ...
... called . His food was brought to him by one of his daughters , a child of eight years old , whom Mrs Stewart was under the ne- cessity of intrusting with this commission ; for her own motions , and those of all her elder inmates , were ...
Página 33
... called Mirkwood Dingle , and opened suddenly upon a deep , dark , and small lake , named , from the same cause , Mirkwood - Mere . There stood , in former times , a solitary tower upon a rock almost sur- rounded by the water , which had ...
... called Mirkwood Dingle , and opened suddenly upon a deep , dark , and small lake , named , from the same cause , Mirkwood - Mere . There stood , in former times , a solitary tower upon a rock almost sur- rounded by the water , which had ...
Página 38
... called on the publisher , but found Tom Alibi's advice had deter- mined him against undertaking the work . " Not but what I would go to -- ( what was I going to say ? ) to the Plantations for the church with pleasure- Lat , dear doctor ...
... called on the publisher , but found Tom Alibi's advice had deter- mined him against undertaking the work . " Not but what I would go to -- ( what was I going to say ? ) to the Plantations for the church with pleasure- Lat , dear doctor ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered Antiquary appeared arms auld Bailie Baron of Bradwardine Brown called Callum Captain castle CHAPTER character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain clan Colonel Mannering Colonel Talbot dear deyvil Dinmont Dominie door Edinburgh Edward Ellangowan eyes father favour feelings Fergus Flora followed frae gentleman gipsy give Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering hand Hatteraick Hazlewood head heard Highland honour hope horse Jacobite Julia lady Laird letter Liddesdale look Lord Lovel Lucy Mac-Ivor Mac-Morlan mair maun ment mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering Miss Wardour Monkbarns morning never night observed occasion Oldbuck party person Pleydell poor portmanteau Prince racter recollection rendered replied Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Arthur Sir Everard spirit Spontoon stranger supposed tell there's thought tion Tully-Veolan turned Vich voice Waverley Waverley's weel wish Woodbourne words young
Pasajes populares
Página 198 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Página 205 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.
Página 209 - I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid — and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father — And now, ride e'en your ways; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.
Página 177 - Sabbath) in some gay company, and had an unhappy assignation with a married woman, whom he was to attend exactly at twelve. The company broke up about eleven ; and not judging it convenient to anticipate the time appointed, he went into his chamber to kill the tedious hour, perhaps with some amusing book, or some other way. But it very accidentally happened, that he took up a religious book, which his good mother or aunt had, without his knowledge, slipped into his portmanteau.
Página 49 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it : Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. " Do the verses he sings," asked Waverley, " belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine ? " "I believe not,
Página 208 - Ride your ways," said the gipsy, "ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram ! — -This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster. — Ye may stable your stirks in the shealings at Derncleugh — see that the hare does not couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan. — Ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram — what...
Página 150 - These reveries he was permitted to enjoy, undisturbed by queries or interruption ; and it was in many a winter walk by the shores of Ulswater that he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by adversity than his former experience had given him ; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced.
Página 198 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 365 - Still, however, his dying splendour gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation of vapours, forming out of their unsubstantial gloom the show of pyramids and towers, some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched beneath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still, reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid colouring of the clouds amidst which he was setting. Nearer...