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... 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 VOL . I. I Stanley , or from the softer and more senti- mental WAVERLEY; ...
... 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 VOL . I. I Stanley , or from the softer and more senti- mental WAVERLEY; ...
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... reader shall be hereafter pleased to affix to it . But my second or supplemental title , was a matter of much more difficult elec- tion , since that , short as it is , may be held as pledging the author to some special mode of laying ...
... reader shall be hereafter pleased to affix to it . But my second or supplemental title , was a matter of much more difficult elec- tion , since that , short as it is , may be held as pledging the author to some special mode of laying ...
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... reader , have demanded from me a dashing sketch of the fashionable world , a few anecdotes of pri- vate scandal thinly veiled , and if lusciously painted so much the better ; a heroine from Grosvenor Square , and a hero from the Ba ...
... reader , have demanded from me a dashing sketch of the fashionable world , a few anecdotes of pri- vate scandal thinly veiled , and if lusciously painted so much the better ; a heroine from Grosvenor Square , and a hero from the Ba ...
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... reader , who is doubtless already anxious to know the choice made by an author so pro- foundly versed in the ... readers understand that they will meet in the following pages neither a ro- mance of chivalry , nor a tale of modern man ...
... reader , who is doubtless already anxious to know the choice made by an author so pro- foundly versed in the ... readers understand that they will meet in the following pages neither a ro- mance of chivalry , nor a tale of modern man ...
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... reader may perhaps anticipate , in the fol- lowing tale , an imitation of the romance of Cervantes . But he will do my prudence in- justice in the supposition . My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable au- thor , in ...
... reader may perhaps anticipate , in the fol- lowing tale , an imitation of the romance of Cervantes . But he will do my prudence in- justice in the supposition . My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable au- thor , in ...
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