Waverley Or 'tis Sixty Years SinceDavid Wilson, 1870 - 503 páginas |
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... English of the present day . As for the plunder supposed to have been picked up by some of the insurgents in 1745 , it must be remembered that , although the way of that unfortunate little army was neither marked by devasta- tion nor ...
... English of the present day . As for the plunder supposed to have been picked up by some of the insurgents in 1745 , it must be remembered that , although the way of that unfortunate little army was neither marked by devasta- tion nor ...
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... English familiar with the character of their gay and kind- hearted neighbours of Ireland , that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union than perhaps all the legis- lative enactments by which it has been ...
... English familiar with the character of their gay and kind- hearted neighbours of Ireland , that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union than perhaps all the legis- lative enactments by which it has been ...
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... English history or topography affords , and elect it at once as the title of my work , and the name of my hero . But alas ! what could my readers have expected from the chivalrous epithets of Howard , Mordaunt , Mortimer , or Stanley ...
... English history or topography affords , and elect it at once as the title of my work , and the name of my hero . But alas ! what could my readers have expected from the chivalrous epithets of Howard , Mordaunt , Mortimer , or Stanley ...
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... English gentle- man of an ancient descent and opulent fortune . His sister , Miss Rachel Waverley , presided at his table ; and they became , by degrees , an old bachelor and an ancient maiden lady , the gentlest and kindest of the ...
... English gentle- man of an ancient descent and opulent fortune . His sister , Miss Rachel Waverley , presided at his table ; and they became , by degrees , an old bachelor and an ancient maiden lady , the gentlest and kindest of the ...
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... English literature he was master of Shakspeare and Milton , of our earlier dramatic authors ; of many picturesque and interesting passages from our old historical chronicles ; and was particularly well acquainted with Spenser , Drayton ...
... English literature he was master of Shakspeare and Milton , of our earlier dramatic authors ; of many picturesque and interesting passages from our old historical chronicles ; and was particularly well acquainted with Spenser , Drayton ...
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