Waverley Novels: Peveril of the PeakRobert Cadell, 1845 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Alice Alsatia answered apartment arms attended better betwixt called Captain Chiffinch Christian companion countenance Countess of Derby Court Dame daughter David Ramsay Deborah Deemster Derbyshire door Duke of Buckingham Earl exclaimed eyes father favour Fenella followed fortune gallant Ganlesse gentleman Geordie George Heriot Grace hand hastily hath hear heard Heaven honest honour horse Huntinglen Jerningham John Christie Julian Peveril King King's Knight Lady Peveril Lance London look Lord Dalgarno Lord Glenvarloch lordship Lowestoffe madam Majesty Majesty's Major Bridgenorth manner Margaret Martindale Castle Master Bridgenorth Master George Master Heriot means mind Mistress Moniplies never noble occasion Peel Castle person pleasure poor Popish Plot present replied Richie Roundheads seemed shew Sir Geoffrey Sir Mungo speak stood stranger sword tell thee thing thou thought tone turned weel William Christian woman word young
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Pagina 89 - 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 prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pagina 424 - On the 24th of December, towards evening, all the servants in general have a holiday; they go not to bed all night, but ramble about till the bells ring in all the churches, which is at twelve o'clock ; prayers being over, they go to hunt the wren, and after having found one of these poor birds, they kill her, and lay her on a bier with the utmost solemnity, bringing her to the parish church, and burying her with a whimsical kind of solemnity, singing dirges over her in the Manx language, which they...
Pagina 58 - He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge; sagacious in many individual cases, without having real wisdom ; fond of his power, and desirous to maintain and augment it, yet willing to resign the direction of that and of himself, to the most unworthy favourites; a big and bold...
Pagina 8 - The great ladies do go well masqued ; and indeed, it be the only show of their modesty to conceal their countenance ; but alack, they meet with such countenance to uphold their strange doings, that I marvel not at aught that happens.
Pagina 466 - ... resist the harmony, followed till it conducted him to a large common, where were a great number of little people sitting round a table, and eating and drinking in a very jovial manner. Among them were some faces whom he thought he had formerly seen, but forbore taking any notice, or they of him, till the little people, offering him drink, one of them, whose features seemed not unknown to him, plucked him by the coat, and forbade him, whatever he did, to taste anything he saw before him ; for...
Pagina 124 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Pagina 297 - We are not worst at once — the course of evil Begins so slowly, and from such slight source, An infant's hand might stem its breach with clay; But let the stream get deeper, and philosophy — Ay, and religion too — shall strive in vain To turn the headlong torrent. Old Play.
Pagina 466 - ... silver cup, filled with some sort of liquor, being put into his hand, he found an opportunity to throw what it contained on the ground. Soon after the music ceasing, all the company disappeared, leaving the cup in his hand, and he returned home, though much wearied and fatigued. He went the next day and communicated to the minister of the parish all that had happened, and asked his advice how he should dispose of the cup ; to which the parson replied, he could not do better than...
Pagina 232 - ... found ourselves in company with the stupidest of all possible companions in a post-chaise, or with the most arrant cumber-corner that ever occupied a place in the mail-coach, without finding that, in the course of our conversation with him, we had some ideas suggested to us, either grave or gay, or some information communicated in the course of our journey, which we should have regretted not to have learned, and which we should be sorry to have immediately forgotten.