The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volumen 10Carey & Hart, 1847 |
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... look in shackles to his castle ,, now a heap of ruins , on down into the crows ' nests on the summits of the the banks of the Tweed . Elibank's " doomtree " old mouldering elms , that have their roots on the extended its broad arms ...
... look in shackles to his castle ,, now a heap of ruins , on down into the crows ' nests on the summits of the the banks of the Tweed . Elibank's " doomtree " old mouldering elms , that have their roots on the extended its broad arms ...
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... look and a word , which , though of mere civility , I then received and still recollect with very great pleasure ... looks in any of the portraits . I would have taken heard him " exult in the prospect of drawing his the poet , had I not ...
... look and a word , which , though of mere civility , I then received and still recollect with very great pleasure ... looks in any of the portraits . I would have taken heard him " exult in the prospect of drawing his the poet , had I not ...
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... look down on the like of us . " " Gentlemen , " answered Scott , " I will never cut any man unless I detect him in scoundrelism ; but I know not what right any of you have to interfere with my choice of my com- pany . If any one thought ...
... look down on the like of us . " " Gentlemen , " answered Scott , " I will never cut any man unless I detect him in scoundrelism ; but I know not what right any of you have to interfere with my choice of my com- pany . If any one thought ...
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... look out for a strong gelding , such as would how simple the construction , and the ruder and suit a stalwart dragoon ; " and intimating his inten- rustier the key , so much the better for the house - tion to part with his collection of ...
... look out for a strong gelding , such as would how simple the construction , and the ruder and suit a stalwart dragoon ; " and intimating his inten- rustier the key , so much the better for the house - tion to part with his collection of ...
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... look for- inasmuch as almost every thing of the kind might have ward to with pleasure . If you were surprised at reading been avoided , had the slayer exhibited the strictest de- the important billet , you may guess how agreeably I was ...
... look for- inasmuch as almost every thing of the kind might have ward to with pleasure . If you were surprised at reading been avoided , had the slayer exhibited the strictest de- the important billet , you may guess how agreeably I was ...
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Abbotsford acquaintance Adam Ferguson admiration afterwards amusement ancient appearance Ashestiel ballad beautiful believe booksellers brother called Castle character Clerk Constable copy dear delighted doubt Duke of Buccleuch Edinburgh Edinburgh Review edition Ellis Erskine favour favourite feelings genius George Ellis give Guy Mannering hand heard Highland honour hope interest Isles James James Ballantyne Joanna Baillie John Ballantyne kind labour Lady land late Lerwick letter literary Loch London Lord Lord Byron Lord Melville manner Marmion ment mind Minstrel Minstrelsy Miss Morritt never occasion Old Mortality person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor present received rock Rokeby Rokeby Park romance scene Scotch Scotland seems Selkirkshire Sir Walter soon sort Southey spirit story suppose thing thought tion Tristrem verses WALTER SCOTT Waverley whole William Laidlaw wish write young
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Página 12 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Página 34 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, I say literally glowed, when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Página 84 - Scott observed that, in the verses on Solomon's Temple, one striking circumstance had escaped him, namely, that no tools were used in its erection. Reginald retired for a few minutes to the corner of the room, and returned with the beautiful lines, — " No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Página 33 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.
Página 34 - ... clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents.
Página 275 - The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill, In Ettrick's vale, is sinking sweet ; The westland wind is hush and still — The lake lies sleeping at my feet. Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore : Though evening, with her richest dye, Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. ' With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride.
Página 177 - I understood him when he replied, ' that in nature herself no two scenes are exactly alike, and that whoever copied truly what was before his eyes, would possess the same variety in his descriptions, and exhibit apparently an imagination as boundless as the range of nature in the scenes he recorded...
Página 34 - I recollect pulling up the reins without meaning to do so, and gazing on the scene before me as if I had been afraid it would shift like those in a theatre before I could distinctly observe its different parts, or convince myself that what I saw was
Página 17 - True History of several honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scot, in the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent, gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers...
Página 244 - He was often melancholy — almost gloomy. When I observed him in this humour, I used either to wait till it went off of its own accord, or till some natural and easy mode occurred of leading him into conversation, when the shadows almost always left his countenance, like the mist rising from a landscape. In conversation he was very animated.