Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ...E.T. Scott, 1821 |
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... taken shipping there for Dunbar , and I have just received . certain information that he landed there yesterday .. His purpose must unquestionably be , to march towards . us to recover possession of the capital . Now there are two ...
... taken shipping there for Dunbar , and I have just received . certain information that he landed there yesterday .. His purpose must unquestionably be , to march towards . us to recover possession of the capital . Now there are two ...
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Walter Scott. shall have taken arms in our favour . The opposite opinion maintains , that a retrograde movement , in our circumstances , is certain to throw utter discredit on our arms and undertaking ; and , far from gaining us new ...
Walter Scott. shall have taken arms in our favour . The opposite opinion maintains , that a retrograde movement , in our circumstances , is certain to throw utter discredit on our arms and undertaking ; and , far from gaining us new ...
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... taken up in a small paved court , retiring from the street , at the house of a buxom widow of forty , who seemed to smile very graciously upon the handsome young chief , being a person with whom good looks and good humour were sure to ...
... taken up in a small paved court , retiring from the street , at the house of a buxom widow of forty , who seemed to smile very graciously upon the handsome young chief , being a person with whom good looks and good humour were sure to ...
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... taken by each soldier singly , whilk the Romans denominated per conjurationem , or by one soldier in name of the rest , yet no one ever doubted that the allegiance so sworn was discharged by the dismissio , or discharging of a soldier ...
... taken by each soldier singly , whilk the Romans denominated per conjurationem , or by one soldier in name of the rest , yet no one ever doubted that the allegiance so sworn was discharged by the dismissio , or discharging of a soldier ...
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... taken so decisive a resolution upon the addresses of a lover , who seemed fitted so well to fill a high place in the highest stations of society . Certainly she had hi- therto accounted among the incurable deficiencies of Ed- ward's ...
... taken so decisive a resolution upon the addresses of a lover , who seemed fitted so well to fill a high place in the highest stations of society . Certainly she had hi- therto accounted among the incurable deficiencies of Ed- ward's ...
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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.