Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ...E.T. Scott, 1821 |
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... give him the title due to his birth ) raised Wa verley from the ground , and embraced him with an ex pression of thanks too warm not to be genuine . He also thanked Fergus Mac - Ivor repeatedly for having brought him such an adherent ...
... give him the title due to his birth ) raised Wa verley from the ground , and embraced him with an ex pression of thanks too warm not to be genuine . He also thanked Fergus Mac - Ivor repeatedly for having brought him such an adherent ...
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... give general directions to such of our people as were left in Perthshire to respect and protect you , should you come in their way . But let me hear the full story of your adventures , for they have reached us in a very partial and ...
... give general directions to such of our people as were left in Perthshire to respect and protect you , should you come in their way . But let me hear the full story of your adventures , for they have reached us in a very partial and ...
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... give an appear- ance of strength to a figure , which , though tall and well - made , was rather elegant than robust , I hope my fair readers will excuse him if he looked at himself in the mirror more than once , and could not help ...
... give an appear- ance of strength to a figure , which , though tall and well - made , was rather elegant than robust , I hope my fair readers will excuse him if he looked at himself in the mirror more than once , and could not help ...
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... give something to the Highland cailliachs that shall cry the coronach loudest for the last Vich an Vohr . " The soft heart of Mrs. Flockhart was melted within her at this speech ; she set up a lamentable blubber- ing , and positively ...
... give something to the Highland cailliachs that shall cry the coronach loudest for the last Vich an Vohr . " The soft heart of Mrs. Flockhart was melted within her at this speech ; she set up a lamentable blubber- ing , and positively ...
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... give them the mettle our mountan affords . Lillibulero , bullen a la , And in place of broad pieces , we'll pay with broad swords , Lero , lero , & c . With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score , Lillibulero , & c . For the ...
... give them the mettle our mountan affords . Lillibulero , bullen a la , And in place of broad pieces , we'll pay with broad swords , Lero , lero , & c . With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score , Lillibulero , & c . For the ...
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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.