Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBlack, 1911 - 503 páginas |
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... manners and the " Queenhoo Hall " type of story , upon which he had already ( in supplying Strutt's unfinished book with a finishing chapter ) tried his hand . " It was to be , " he said , " more a description of men than manners ...
... manners and the " Queenhoo Hall " type of story , upon which he had already ( in supplying Strutt's unfinished book with a finishing chapter ) tried his hand . " It was to be , " he said , " more a description of men than manners ...
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... manner in which it was first told . But without altering , in the slightest degree , either the story or the mode of telling it , the Author has taken this opportunity to correct errors of the press and slips of the pen . That such ...
... manner in which it was first told . But without altering , in the slightest degree , either the story or the mode of telling it , the Author has taken this opportunity to correct errors of the press and slips of the pen . That such ...
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... manners belonging an early period of society , must afford a subject favourable f romance , if it should not prove a curious tale marred in th telling . It was with some idea of this kind , that , about the yea 1 See the Fragment ...
... manners belonging an early period of society , must afford a subject favourable f romance , if it should not prove a curious tale marred in th telling . It was with some idea of this kind , that , about the yea 1 See the Fragment ...
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... manners , customs , and language of the people of England during that period . The extensive acquaintance which Mr. Strutt had acquired with such subjects in compiling his laborious " Horda Ange Cydnan , " his " Royal and Ecclesiastical ...
... manners , customs , and language of the people of England during that period . The extensive acquaintance which Mr. Strutt had acquired with such subjects in compiling his laborious " Horda Ange Cydnan , " his " Royal and Ecclesiastical ...
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... manners of the middle ages did not possess the interest which I had conceived ; and was led to form the opinion that a romance , founded on a Highland story , and more modern events , would have a better chance of popularity than a tale ...
... manners of the middle ages did not possess the interest which I had conceived ; and was led to form the opinion that a romance , founded on a Highland story , and more modern events , would have a better chance of popularity than a tale ...
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