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When boyhood advancing into youth required more serious studies and graver
cares , a long illness threw me back on the kingdom of fiction , as if it were by a
species of fatality . My indisposition arose , in part at least , from my having
broken ...
When boyhood advancing into youth required more serious studies and graver
cares , a long illness threw me back on the kingdom of fiction , as if it were by a
species of fatality . My indisposition arose , in part at least , from my having
broken ...
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... and I began by degrees to seek in histories , memoirs , voyages and travels ,
and the like , events nearly as wonderful as those which were the work of
imagination , with the additional advantage that they were at least in a great
measure true ...
... and I began by degrees to seek in histories , memoirs , voyages and travels ,
and the like , events nearly as wonderful as those which were the work of
imagination , with the additional advantage that they were at least in a great
measure true ...
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Those who remember that gentleman will readily grant that , with general talents
at least equal to those of his elder brother , he added a power of social humour
and a deep insight into human character which rendered him an universally ...
Those who remember that gentleman will readily grant that , with general talents
at least equal to those of his elder brother , he added a power of social humour
and a deep insight into human character which rendered him an universally ...
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The number of persons to whom the secret was necessarily entrusted , or
communicated by chance , amounted , I should think , to twenty at least , to whom
I am greatly obliged for the fidelity with which they observed their trust , until the ...
The number of persons to whom the secret was necessarily entrusted , or
communicated by chance , amounted , I should think , to twenty at least , to whom
I am greatly obliged for the fidelity with which they observed their trust , until the ...
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Considerations , which seem weighty in his particular situation , prevent his
releasing those gentlemen from suspicion by placing his own name in the title -
page ; so that , for the present at least , it must remain uncertain whether
Waverley be ...
Considerations , which seem weighty in his particular situation , prevent his
releasing those gentlemen from suspicion by placing his own name in the title -
page ; so that , for the present at least , it must remain uncertain whether
Waverley be ...
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affection ancient answered appeared approached arms army asked attended Baron Bradwardine called Captain cause CHAPTER character charge Chief Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel command continued course danger dear Edward English entered Evan expressed eyes father favour feelings Fergus Flora followed gave give hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse interest kind Lady least leave length less letter live look Lord Mac-Ivor Major manner matter means military mind Miss morning natural never night Note observed occasion officer once opinion party passed perhaps person poor present Prince probably proposed reason received rendered replied respect returned Rose Scotland seemed seen short side soldiers soon spirit supposed Talbot thought took turned usual Waverley Waverley's whole wish young
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Página 460 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming : And foresters have busy been, To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 179 - 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!
Página 347 - 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 1 - I must modestly admit I am too diffident of my own merit to place it in unnecessary opposition to preconceived associations ; I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it.
Página 70 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it^ Where the fairy latest trips it : Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. " Do the verses he sings," asked Waverley, " belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine ?" " I helieve not,
Página 481 - He continued all night under arms, wrapped up in his cloke, and generally sheltered under a rick of barley which happened to be in the field. About three in the morning he called his domestic servants to him, of which there were four in waiting. He dismissed three of them with most affectionate Christian advice, and such solemn charges relating to the performance of their duty, and the care of their souls, as seemed plainly to intimate that he apprehended it at least very probable he was taking his...
Página 481 - Whitney, who was shot through the arm here, and a few months after fell nobly in the battle of Falkirk, and by Lieutenant West, a man of distinguished bravery, as also by about fifteen dragoons, who stood by him to the last. But after a faint fire, the regiment in...
Página 460 - You shall see him brought to bay; ' Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay! Tell them youth and mirth and glee Run a course as well as we; Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk, Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk; Think of this, and rise with day Gentle lords and ladies gay!
Página 447 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of ,1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, — the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs, long continued to pride themselves...
Página 2 - Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and darklanterns? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a 'Sentimental Tale...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Waverley or 'tis sixty years since Volumen 1 de Waverley Novels, Walter Scott |
| Autor | Walter Scott |
| Editor | Gebbie, 1896 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 19 Mar 2008 |
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