Waverley Or 'tis Sixty Years SinceDavid Wilson, 1870 - 503 páginas |
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... traditions , and particularly one respecting the Knight of the Mirror , may be quoted as good evidence . * * See note , Author's Address to all in general , p . 469 . GENERAL PREFACE , 1829 . And must I ravel out 4 ...
... traditions , and particularly one respecting the Knight of the Mirror , may be quoted as good evidence . * * See note , Author's Address to all in general , p . 469 . GENERAL PREFACE , 1829 . And must I ravel out 4 ...
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... respects abuse the license per- mitted me . Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of fiction brought with it some degree of satiety , and I began , by degrees , to seek in histories , memoirs , voyages and travels , and the ...
... respects abuse the license per- mitted me . Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of fiction brought with it some degree of satiety , and I began , by degrees , to seek in histories , memoirs , voyages and travels , and the ...
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... frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as impassable to the critic , as the Ghost of Hamlet to the partisan of Marcellus . Perhaps the curiosity of the public GENERAL PREFACE . 13.
... frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as impassable to the critic , as the Ghost of Hamlet to the partisan of Marcellus . Perhaps the curiosity of the public GENERAL PREFACE . 13.
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... respects rank lower than its predecessors . I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege as one reason of my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours . It is in ...
... respects rank lower than its predecessors . I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege as one reason of my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours . It is in ...
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... respecting the Edition is the business of the publishers , not of the Author ; and here , therefore , the latter has accomplished his task of Introduction and explanation . * If , like a spoiled child , he has sometimes abused or ...
... respecting the Edition is the business of the publishers , not of the Author ; and here , therefore , the latter has accomplished his task of Introduction and explanation . * If , like a spoiled child , he has sometimes abused or ...
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