Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry, 1839 - 436 páginas |
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... Highland scenery and customs made so favourable an impression in the poem called the Lady of the Lake , that I was induced to think of attempting something of the same kind in prose . I had been a good deal in the Highlands , at a time ...
... Highland scenery and customs made so favourable an impression in the poem called the Lady of the Lake , that I was induced to think of attempting something of the same kind in prose . I had been a good deal in the Highlands , at a time ...
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... Highland and Lowland ; having been familiar with the elder , as well as more modern race ; and having had from my infancy free and unrestrained communication with all ranks of my countrymen , from the Scottish peer to the Scottish ...
... Highland and Lowland ; having been familiar with the elder , as well as more modern race ; and having had from my infancy free and unrestrained communication with all ranks of my countrymen , from the Scottish peer to the Scottish ...
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... Highland story , and more modern events , would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the tale which I had actually commenced ; and accident at length threw the ...
... Highland story , and more modern events , would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the tale which I had actually commenced ; and accident at length threw the ...
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... Highland cateran Bean Lean , are managed without much skill . It suited best , however , the road I wanted to travel , and permitted me to intro- duce some descriptions of scenery and manners , to which the reality gave an interest ...
... Highland cateran Bean Lean , are managed without much skill . It suited best , however , the road I wanted to travel , and permitted me to intro- duce some descriptions of scenery and manners , to which the reality gave an interest ...
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... Highland gentleman commanded him to surrender , and received for reply a thrust , which he caught in his target . The officer was now de- fenceless , and the battle axe of a gigantic Highlander ( the miller of Invernahyle's mill ) was ...
... Highland gentleman commanded him to surrender , and received for reply a thrust , which he caught in his target . The officer was now de- fenceless , and the battle axe of a gigantic Highlander ( the miller of Invernahyle's mill ) was ...
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