Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, Volumes 1-2Samuel H. Parker, 1834 |
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Pagina 4
... heart , which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments . Still , however , it was long ere Charles Edward ap- peared to be , perhaps it was long ere he altogether be- came , so much degraded from his original self ; as he ...
... heart , which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments . Still , however , it was long ere Charles Edward ap- peared to be , perhaps it was long ere he altogether be- came , so much degraded from his original self ; as he ...
Pagina 7
... heart , which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments . Still , however , it was long ere Charles Edward ap- peared to be , perhaps it was long ere he altogether be- came , so much degraded from his original self ; as he ...
... heart , which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments . Still , however , it was long ere Charles Edward ap- peared to be , perhaps it was long ere he altogether be- came , so much degraded from his original self ; as he ...
Pagina 13
... heart , which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments . Still , however , it was long ere Charles Edward ap- peared to be , perhaps it was long ere he altogether be- came , so much degraded from his original self ; as he ...
... heart , which seeks refuge from its own thoughts in sordid enjoyments . Still , however , it was long ere Charles Edward ap- peared to be , perhaps it was long ere he altogether be- came , so much degraded from his original self ; as he ...
Pagina 14
... heart to throb in unison with my own . I were condemned to labour for my bread , methinks I should less regard this peculiar species of deprivation . The necessary communication of master and servant would be at least a tie which would ...
... heart to throb in unison with my own . I were condemned to labour for my bread , methinks I should less regard this peculiar species of deprivation . The necessary communication of master and servant would be at least a tie which would ...
Pagina 16
... heart blame either the motive or the object of this severity . For the motive , it is and can only be my father's anxious , devoted , and unremitting affection and zeal for my im provement , with a laudable sense of the honour of the ...
... heart blame either the motive or the object of this severity . For the motive , it is and can only be my father's anxious , devoted , and unremitting affection and zeal for my im provement , with a laudable sense of the honour of the ...
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Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century Walter Scott (sir).),Sir Walter Scott Volledige weergave - 1832 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 87 - Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.
Pagina 194 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Pagina 87 - Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made. He sat apart from them all, and looked at them with a melancholy, haughty countenance ; while the rest hallooed, and sung, and laughed, that the room rang.
Pagina 80 - ... jackanape, that was a special pet of his ; a cankered beast it was, and mony an ill-natured trick it played — ill to please it was, and easily angered — ran about the haill castle, chattering and yowling, and pinching, and biting folk, specially before ill weather, or disturbances in the state.
Pagina 81 - Primrose-Knowe, as behind the hand with his mails and duties. Sir Robert gave my gudesire a look, as if he would have withered his heart in his bosom. Ye maun ken he had a way of bending his brows, that men saw the visible mark of a horse-shoe in his forehead, deep-dinted, as if it had been stamped there. 'Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle ?
Pagina 16 - A hard and harsh countenance; eyes far sunk under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair; a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth of uncommon whiteness, and a size and breadth which might have become the jaws of an ogre, completed this delightful portrait.
Pagina 87 - Redgauntlet. There was the fierce Middleton, and the dissolute Rothes, and the crafty Lauderdale; and Dalyell, with his bald head and a beard to his girdle; and Earlshall, with Cameron's blude on his hand; and wild Bonshaw, that tied blessed Mr. Cargill's limbs till the blude sprung; and Dumbarton Douglas, the twice-turned traitor baith to country and king.
Pagina 87 - ... a wild set in his day. At last they parted, and my gudesire was to ride hame through the wood of Pitmurkie, that is a' fou of black firs, as they say. — I ken the wood, but the firs may be black or white for what I can tell. — At the entry of the wood there is a wild common, and on the edge of the common, a little lonely change-house, that was keepit then by...
Pagina 85 - Laird, sighing deeply, and putting his napkin to his een, "his was a sudden call, and he will be missed in the country; no time to set his house in order -weel prepared...
Pagina 82 - Dougal ; in flew the liverymen ; yell on yell gied the laird, ilk ane mair awfu' than the ither. My gudesire knew not whether to stand or flee, but he ventured back into the parlour, where a' was gaun hirdie-girdie — naebody to say " come in " or " gae out." Terribly the laird roared for cauld water to his feet, and wine to cool his throat ; and ' Hell, hell, hell, and its flames', was aye the word in his mouth. They brought him water, and when they plunged his...