Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ...E.T. Scott, 1821 |
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... believe , both friend and foe , under the pretence of levying black- mail , sometimes as if by my authority , and sometimes ( and be cursed to his consummate impudence ) in his own great name . Upon my honour , if I live to see the ...
... believe , both friend and foe , under the pretence of levying black- mail , sometimes as if by my authority , and sometimes ( and be cursed to his consummate impudence ) in his own great name . Upon my honour , if I live to see the ...
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... believe there may even be some who would be consoled by such a reflection for the loss of the whole existing genera- tion ; but there is a sorrow which knows neither hun- ger nor thirst ; and poor Flora " -He paused and the whole ...
... believe there may even be some who would be consoled by such a reflection for the loss of the whole existing genera- tion ; but there is a sorrow which knows neither hun- ger nor thirst ; and poor Flora " -He paused and the whole ...
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... believe , are little better than garçons apothecaires . ' " But the man will bleed to death . " " Poor fellow ! But it will be a thousand men's fate before night ; so come along . " " I cannot ; I tell you he is son of a tenant of my ...
... believe , are little better than garçons apothecaires . ' " But the man will bleed to death . " " Poor fellow ! But it will be a thousand men's fate before night ; so come along . " " I cannot ; I tell you he is son of a tenant of my ...
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... believe , in the army , and the husband of Lady Emily Blande ville ; but I thought Colonel Talbot had been abroad . " " I am just returned ; and being in Scotland , thought it my duty to act where my services promised to be useful . Yes ...
... believe , in the army , and the husband of Lady Emily Blande ville ; but I thought Colonel Talbot had been abroad . " " I am just returned ; and being in Scotland , thought it my duty to act where my services promised to be useful . Yes ...
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... believe the army makes some stay in Edinburgh , to collect reinforcements . " " And besiege the castle ? " said Talbot , smiling sar castically ; " well , unless my old commander , General Guest , turn false metal , or the castle sink ...
... believe the army makes some stay in Edinburgh , to collect reinforcements . " " And besiege the castle ? " said Talbot , smiling sar castically ; " well , unless my old commander , General Guest , turn false metal , or the castle sink ...
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Página 243 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English or adopt their customs...
Página 116 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 208 - I was only ganging to say, my lord," said Evan, -in what he meant to be an insinuating manner, " that if your excellent honour, and the honourable court, would let Vich Ian Vohr go free just this once, and let him gae back to France, and no to trouble King George's government again, that ony
Página 245 - It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings ; so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from the " Teagues" and " dear joys," who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.
Página 243 - Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons,— the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs, long continued to pride themselves upon maintaining ancient Scottish manners and customs,— commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce, have since united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings as different from their grandfathers,...
Página 239 - It was a large and spirited painting, representing Fergus MacIvor and Waverley in their Highland dress, the scene a wild, rocky, and mountainous pass, down which the clan were descending in the back.ground.
Página 144 - These reveries he was permitted to enjoy, undisturbed by queries or interruption ; and it was in many a winter walk by the shores of Ulswater, that he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by adversity, than his former experience had given him; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced.