Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since, Volumen 2J. Ballantyne, 1814 |
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... Fergus was . attended on this occasion by about three hundred of his clan , well armed , and ac- coutred in their best fashion . Waverley complied so far with the custom of the country as to adopt the trews , ( he could not be ...
... Fergus was . attended on this occasion by about three hundred of his clan , well armed , and ac- coutred in their best fashion . Waverley complied so far with the custom of the country as to adopt the trews , ( he could not be ...
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... Fergus , observing his danger , sprung up and pulled him with violence to the ground just as the whole herd broke down upon them . The tide being absolutely irresist- ible , and wounds from a stag's horn high- ly dangerous , the ...
... Fergus , observing his danger , sprung up and pulled him with violence to the ground just as the whole herd broke down upon them . The tide being absolutely irresist- ible , and wounds from a stag's horn high- ly dangerous , the ...
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... Fergus , notwithstanding his knowledge and education , seemed to fall in with the superstitious ideas of his coun- trymen , either because he deemed it im- politic to affect sceptism on a matter of general belief , or more probably ...
... Fergus , notwithstanding his knowledge and education , seemed to fall in with the superstitious ideas of his coun- trymen , either because he deemed it im- politic to affect sceptism on a matter of general belief , or more probably ...
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... Fergus and all his friends expressed the greatest sympathy , it became a ques- tion how to dispose of the disabled sports . 1 man . This was settled by Mac - Ivor 2 WAVERLEY . 15 the professor of medicine with a liberality ...
... Fergus and all his friends expressed the greatest sympathy , it became a ques- tion how to dispose of the disabled sports . 1 man . This was settled by Mac - Ivor 2 WAVERLEY . 15 the professor of medicine with a liberality ...
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... Fergus abridged the ceremonies of taking leave . At length , his own men being completely assembled and mustered , Mac - Ivor commenced his . march , but not towards the quarter from which they had come . He gave Waverley to understand ...
... Fergus abridged the ceremonies of taking leave . At length , his own men being completely assembled and mustered , Mac - Ivor commenced his . march , but not towards the quarter from which they had come . He gave Waverley to understand ...
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Página 77 - 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 343 - English dialect by the equally well-distinguished voice of the commanding officer, for whom he had once felt so much respect. It was at that instant, that, looking around him, he saw the wild dress and appearance of his Highland associates, heard their whispers in an uncouth and unknown language, looked upon his own dress, so unlike that which he had worn from his infancy, and wished to awake from what seemed at the moment a dream, strange, horrible, and unnatural.
Página 255 - ... side, he was irresistibly attracted to the cause which the prejudices of education, and the political principles of his family, had already recommended as the most just. These thoughts rushed through his mind like a torrent, sweeping before them every consideration of an opposite tendency, — the time, besides, admitted of no deliberation , — and Waverley, kneeling to Charles Edward, devoted his heart and sword to the vindication of his rights...
Página 3 - Mongst craggy cliffs and thunder-battered hills, Hares, hinds, bucks, roes, are chased by men and dogs, Where two hours' hunting fourscore fat deer kills. Lowland, your sports are low as is your seat; The Highland games and minds are high and great.