Waverley Or 'tis Sixty Years SinceDavid Wilson, 1870 - 503 páginas |
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... present edition will be found free from errors of that accidental kind . The Author has also ventured to make some emendations of a different character , which , without being such apparent deviations from the original stories as to ...
... present edition will be found free from errors of that accidental kind . The Author has also ventured to make some emendations of a different character , which , without being such apparent deviations from the original stories as to ...
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... present at least , it must re- main uncertain whether Waverley be the work of a poet or a critic , a lawyer or a clergyman , or whether the writer , to use Mrs. Malaprop's phrase , be , " like Cerberus - three gentlemen at once . " The ...
... present at least , it must re- main uncertain whether Waverley be the work of a poet or a critic , a lawyer or a clergyman , or whether the writer , to use Mrs. Malaprop's phrase , be , " like Cerberus - three gentlemen at once . " The ...
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... 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 bloodshed , but ...
... 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 bloodshed , but ...
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... present story to detail how the success of a few ballads had the effect of changing all the purpose and tenor of my life , and of converting a painstaking lawyer of some years ' standing into a follower of literature . It is enough to ...
... present story to detail how the success of a few ballads had the effect of changing all the purpose and tenor of my life , and of converting a painstaking lawyer of some years ' standing into a follower of literature . It is enough to ...
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... present Introduction , for the reason already mentioned regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step in my advance towards romantic composition ; and to preserve the traces of these is in a great measure the object of this Essay ...
... present Introduction , for the reason already mentioned regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step in my advance towards romantic composition ; and to preserve the traces of these is in a great measure the object of this Essay ...
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