The Abbot: Being the Sequel of The Monastery, Volumen1Hickman & Hazzard, 1821 - 253 páginas |
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Abbess Abbot of Unreason Adam Woodcock amongst answered apartment bear betwixt blessed blood brother called castle of Avenel Catherine Seyton Catholic child church companion dame danger Debateable Land door dress earl earl of Murray eyass eyes fair faith falconer Father Ambrose favour favourite fear feelings gallant hand hast thou hath hawk head heard heart Heaven heretics holy Holyrood honour horse household Kennaquhair knight of Avenel Lady of Avenel lady's land laugh Lilias Lindesay look lord Magdalen Græme master Roland Master Wingate matron mind mistress monks Morton mother Murray never noble observed old Wingate once poor Regent replied Roland Græme Saint Cuthbert saints Scotland seemed Sir Halbert Glendinning sister speak spoke stood sword thee ther thine thou hast thought tion tone trix turned voice Warden Wing-the-wind Wolf woman word young youth
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Página 206 - eminent soldier and statesman, the wielder of a nation's power, and the leader of her armies. The greatest and wisest are flattered by the deference of youth—so graceful and becoming in itself; and Murray took, with much courtesy, the letter from the hands of the abashed and blushing page, and answered with complaisance to the imperfect and
Página 138 - hymns of the convent. The cause and result of this extraordinary interruption, will be explained in the next chapter. CHAPTER XIV. • Not the wild billow, when it breaks its barrierNot the wild wind, escaping from its cavern—- Not the wild fiend, that mingles both together, And pours their rage upon the ripening
Página 181 - which were manufactured in Scotland, and with pieces of defensive armour, imported from Flanders, added to his surprise; and, at every step, he found so much to admire and to gaze upon, that Adam Woodcock had no little difficulty in prevailing on him to advance through such a scene
Página 11 - Ay, madam," said Warden, "but our love to God is to be unbounded—we are to love him with our whole heart, our whole soul, and our whole strength. The love which the precept commands us to bear to our neighbour, has affixed to it a direct limit and qualification—we are to love our neighbour as
Página 248 - often looking to the castle, and displaying in his countenance a mixture of sorrow and of anxiety. The rest of the party sate like statues on horseback, without moving so much as the points of their lances, which they held upright in the air. As soon as the boat approached a rude quay or
Página 61 - my mouth, as addressed to you. Other grace I asked not—you have done much for me—but I repeat, that you better know what you yourself have done, than what I have suffered." " Roland," said the lady, somewhat appeased and relenting towards her favourite, " you had me to appeal to when you were aggrieved.
Página 142 - all these absurdities. They were at no loss to comprehend their purpose and meaning. Few readers can be ignorant, that at an early period, and during the plenitude of her power, the church of Rome not only connived at. but even encouraged such, saturnalian licenses as the inhabitants of Kennaquhair and
Página 167 - placed him where, for the service of the church, I would most wish him to be." "I know not what you mean, my sister," said the Abbot. " Reverend father," replied Magdalen, " hast thou never heard that there are spirits powerful to rend the
Página 181 - long faithful. Then, again, came the clergyman himself, in his black Geneva cloak and band, lending a grave and attentive ear to the discourse of several persons who accompanied him, and who were doubtless holding serious converse on the religious subject he was about to treat of. Nor did there lack passengers of a different class and appearance.
Página 18 - The woman spoke with a rapidity and vehemence which seemed to have in it a touch of insanity; and a sudden sense of the danger to which the child must necessarily be exposed in the charge of such a keeper, increased the lady's desire to keep him in the castle if possible.