The Waverley novels. 25 vols. |
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xxii 페이지
... speaking , as a professed depredator that Rob Roy now conducted his operations , but as a sort of contractor for the police ; in Scottish phrase , a lifter of black - mail . The nature of this contract has been described in the Novel of ...
... speaking , as a professed depredator that Rob Roy now conducted his operations , but as a sort of contractor for the police ; in Scottish phrase , a lifter of black - mail . The nature of this contract has been described in the Novel of ...
xxiv 페이지
... speak to , or threaten you , tell them that I am here , at the head of twenty men . ' - " But what if they abuse us , or kill us ? " said the Lowland peasant , by no means delighted at finding the embassy imposed on him and his son ...
... speak to , or threaten you , tell them that I am here , at the head of twenty men . ' - " But what if they abuse us , or kill us ? " said the Lowland peasant , by no means delighted at finding the embassy imposed on him and his son ...
6 페이지
... speak of circumstances as well known to you as to myself . The seductive love of narrative , when we ourselves are the heroes of the events which we tell , often disregards the attention due to the time and patience of the audience ...
... speak of circumstances as well known to you as to myself . The seductive love of narrative , when we ourselves are the heroes of the events which we tell , often disregards the attention due to the time and patience of the audience ...
11 페이지
... speaking , his temper under complete self - command , and his anger rarely indicated itself by words , except in a sort of dry testy manner , to those who had displeased him . He never used threats , or expressions of loud resentment ...
... speaking , his temper under complete self - command , and his anger rarely indicated itself by words , except in a sort of dry testy manner , to those who had displeased him . He never used threats , or expressions of loud resentment ...
12 페이지
... speaking ; " but I think it but just , that if I have been negligent of my studies , I should pay the forfeit myself . I have no reason to charge Mon- sieur Dubourg with having neglected to give me opportunities of im- provement ...
... speaking ; " but I think it but just , that if I have been negligent of my studies , I should pay the forfeit myself . I have no reason to charge Mon- sieur Dubourg with having neglected to give me opportunities of im- provement ...
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Aberfoil amang Andrew Fairservice answered appearance arms auld Bailie better betwixt called Campbell canna clan clan MacGregor command cousin Diana Vernon dinna door doubt Dougal Duke Duke of Montrose e'en escape eyes father favour fear feelings frae Frank gang gentleman Glasgow Glengyle Gregor gude hand head heard Hieland Highland honest honour horse Inglewood Inversnaid Jacobite James Jarvie Jobson Justice ken'd kinsman Loch Lomond look Lowland MacGregor MacVittie mair manner maun mind Miss Vernon Mons Meg Morris muckle never night occasion Osbaldistone Osbaldistone-Hall Owen ower party person plaid portmanteau puir Rashleigh recollection replied Rob Roy Rob Roy MacGregor Rob Roy's Robin Scotland seemed shew siller Sir Hildebrand speak stranger suld suppose sword tell thae there's Thorncliff thought tion tone Tresham voice weel whilk wild word young
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i 페이지 - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
189 페이지 - No birds, except as birds of passage, flew; No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo: No streams, as amber smooth, as amber clear, Were seen to glide, or heard to warble here...
137 페이지 - Ah! it's a brave kirk — nane o' yere whigmaleeries and curliewurlies and open-steek hems about it — a' solid, weel-jointed mason-wark, that will stand as lang as the warld, keep hands and gunpowther aff it. It had amaist a douncome lang syne at the Reformation, when they pu'ddoun the kirks of St. Andrews and Perth and thereawa', to cleanse them o...
xiv 페이지 - Say, then, that he was wise as brave ; As wise in thought as bold in deed : For in the principles of things He sought his moral creed. Said generous Rob, " What need of Books ? Burn all the Statutes and their shelves : They stir us up against our Kind ; And worse, against Ourselves.
iii 페이지 - Far and near, through vale and hill, Are faces that attest the same, And kindle like a fire new stirr'd, At sound of Rob Roy's name.
231 페이지 - But the knot had been securely bound ; the wretched man sunk without effort ; the waters, which his fall had disturbed, settled calmly over him, and the unit of that life for which he had pleaded so strongly, was forever withdrawn from the sum of human existence.