RedgauntletSamuel H. Parker, 1836 |
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... to hope that he would have been found free from the love of prerogative and desire of arbitrary power , which characterised his unhappy grandfather , He gave a no- table instance how far this was the leading feature of REDGAUNTLET . 9.
... to hope that he would have been found free from the love of prerogative and desire of arbitrary power , which characterised his unhappy grandfather , He gave a no- table instance how far this was the leading feature of REDGAUNTLET . 9.
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... desire of distinction ; impulses which render thee alive to the love of fame , and deaf to the apprehension of danger , until it forces itself suddenly upon thee . I own , that whether it is from my having caught my father's ...
... desire of distinction ; impulses which render thee alive to the love of fame , and deaf to the apprehension of danger , until it forces itself suddenly upon thee . I own , that whether it is from my having caught my father's ...
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... desire to have complied with his Lairdship's invitation . To shoot a buck ! Think how magnificent an idea , to one who never shot any thing but hedge - spar- rows , and that with a horse - pistol , purchased at a broker's stand in the ...
... desire to have complied with his Lairdship's invitation . To shoot a buck ! Think how magnificent an idea , to one who never shot any thing but hedge - spar- rows , and that with a horse - pistol , purchased at a broker's stand in the ...
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... desire to make compensation for any trouble I might occasion . The man answered very coldly , " Your presence will no doubt give me trouble , sir , but it is of a kind which your purse cannot compen- sate ; in a word , although I am ...
... desire to make compensation for any trouble I might occasion . The man answered very coldly , " Your presence will no doubt give me trouble , sir , but it is of a kind which your purse cannot compen- sate ; in a word , although I am ...
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... desire , re- turned thanks , he used his tooth - pick , as if he had waited that moment for its exercise . So much for Kirk - with King , matters went even worse . My father , thou knowest , is particularly full of deference 5 * VOL . 1 ...
... desire , re- turned thanks , he used his tooth - pick , as if he had waited that moment for its exercise . So much for Kirk - with King , matters went even worse . My father , thou knowest , is particularly full of deference 5 * VOL . 1 ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Alan Fairford Alan's answered apartment Arthuret auld Benjie betwixt brandy brother called cause countenance Court Crackenthorp Cristal Nixon Crosbie danger Darsie Latimer door doubt Dumfries endeavoured eyes father fear Foxley Geddes gentleman give gude gudesire hand head heard heart Herries hinny honour hope horse Jacobite James Wilkinson Joshua Justice lady Laird lawyer length letter Lilias look Lord manner matter maun Maxwell mind Mount Sharon mutchkin Nanty Ewart never night observed occasion once party passed perhaps person Peter Peebles poor present Provost Quaker recollection Redgauntlet replied Samuel Griffiths Scotland Scots law Scottish seemed Shepherd's Bush Sir John Sir Richard Solway speak Steenie Summertrees tell thee thing thou thought tion tone Trumbull turned uncle voice walk weel Whigs Willie wish word young
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Página 88 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 129 - My gudesire's hair stood on end at this proposal, but he thought his companion might be some humoursome chield that was trying to frighten him, and might end with lending him the money. Besides, he was bauld wi' brandy, and desperate wi' distress; and he said he had courage to go to the gate of hell, and a step farther, for that receipt. The stranger laughed. Weel, they rode on through the thickest of the wood, when, all of a sudden, the horse stopped at the door of a great house; and, but that he...
Página 125 - Stephen,' said Sir John, still in the same soft, sleekit tone of voice — * Stephen Stevenson, or Steenson, ye are down here for a year's rent behind the hand — due at last term.' Stephen. ' Please your honour, Sir John, I paid it to your father.
Página 24 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Página 8 - ... this girl, who soon acquired such a dominion over him, that she was acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction who were attached to him were greatly alarmed: they imagined that this wench had been placed in his family by the English ministers ; and, considering her sister's situation, they seemed to have some ground for their suspicion ; wherefore, they despatched a gentleman to Paris,...
Página 123 - ... a stoup of brandy, and Hutcheon, who was something of a clerk, would have read a chapter of the Bible ; but Dougal would hear naething but a blaud of Davie Lindsay, whilk was the waur preparation. When midnight came, and the house was quiet as the grave, sure aneugh the silver whistle sounded as sharp and shrill as if Sir Robert was blowing it, and up gat the twa auld serving-men, and tottered into the room where the dead man lay.
Página 128 - ... 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 an...
Página 136 - Weel, then, the thing that was so like him," said my gudesire; "he spoke of my coming back to see him this time twelvemonth, and it's a weight on my conscience." "Aweel, then," said Sir John, "if you be so much distressed in mind, you may speak to our minister of the parish; he is a douce man, regards the honour of our family, and the mair that he may look for some patronage from me.
Página 130 - There was the Bluidy 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...
Página 36 - 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.