Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBlack, 1911 - 503 páginas |
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... rank as a forerunner of the move- ment that brought Celtic romance and Celtic folk - lore to bear upon English literature . This was in spite of a certain lurking Lowland prejudice against the Gaelic temper and character , which Scott ...
... rank as a forerunner of the move- ment that brought Celtic romance and Celtic folk - lore to bear upon English literature . This was in spite of a certain lurking Lowland prejudice against the Gaelic temper and character , which Scott ...
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... ranks of my countrymen , from the Scottish peer to the Scottish ploughman . Such ideas often occurred to me , and constituted an ambitious branch of my theory , however far short I may have fallen of it in practice . But it was not only ...
... ranks of my countrymen , from the Scottish peer to the Scottish ploughman . Such ideas often occurred to me , and constituted an ambitious branch of my theory , however far short I may have fallen of it in practice . But it was not only ...
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... rank lower than its predecessors . I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege as one reason of my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours . It is in every case ...
... rank lower than its predecessors . I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege as one reason of my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours . It is in every case ...
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... those critics of no mean rank , employed themselves in investigating with persevering patience any characteristic features which might seem to betray the origin of these Novels . Amongst these , one gentleman , 16 General Preface.
... those critics of no mean rank , employed themselves in investigating with persevering patience any characteristic features which might seem to betray the origin of these Novels . Amongst these , one gentleman , 16 General Preface.
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... rank . 1 It is not to be supposed that these fragments are given as possessing any intrinsic value of themselves ; but there may be some curiosity attached to them , as to the first etchings of a plate , which are accounted interesting ...
... rank . 1 It is not to be supposed that these fragments are given as possessing any intrinsic value of themselves ; but there may be some curiosity attached to them , as to the first etchings of a plate , which are accounted interesting ...
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