Landscape-historical Illustrations of Scotland, and the Waverley Novels, Volumen 1Fisher, Son, & Company, 1836 |
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... chief enjoyment of my holydays was to escape with a chosen friend , who had the same taste with myself , and alternately to recite to each other such wild adventures as we were able to devise . We told , each in turn , interminable ...
... chief enjoyment of my holydays was to escape with a chosen friend , who had the same taste with myself , and alternately to recite to each other such wild adventures as we were able to devise . We told , each in turn , interminable ...
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... chiefs , as Evan fully explained by his reply to Waverley . " Ah , if you Saxon Duinhé - wassel , i.e. English gentleman , saw but the chief with his tail on ! " meaning his usual followers . The hero of Waverley , induced by curiosity ...
... chiefs , as Evan fully explained by his reply to Waverley . " Ah , if you Saxon Duinhé - wassel , i.e. English gentleman , saw but the chief with his tail on ! " meaning his usual followers . The hero of Waverley , induced by curiosity ...
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... chief of the Macdonalds , and many of his clan , were massacred in cold blood by a party of military , their houses burned , their cattle and effects carried off , and the helpless widows and children of the murdered men turned out ...
... chief of the Macdonalds , and many of his clan , were massacred in cold blood by a party of military , their houses burned , their cattle and effects carried off , and the helpless widows and children of the murdered men turned out ...
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... chief himself , with Waverley , and two or three highland visiters , of neighbouring tribes , the elders of his own tribe , wadsetters and tacksmen , as they were called , who occupied portions of his estate , as mortgagers or lessees ...
... chief himself , with Waverley , and two or three highland visiters , of neighbouring tribes , the elders of his own tribe , wadsetters and tacksmen , as they were called , who occupied portions of his estate , as mortgagers or lessees ...
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... chief property , and robbery , from familiarity , amongst them assumed the character of fair reprisal : " they were gentle- men of the night - minions of the moon . " Their cheerless land , sometimes styled , " Spade - adam Waste ...
... chief property , and robbery , from familiarity , amongst them assumed the character of fair reprisal : " they were gentle- men of the night - minions of the moon . " Their cheerless land , sometimes styled , " Spade - adam Waste ...
Términos y frases comunes
2d Series Aberfoil amongst ancient Antiquary appeared arms Auld Bailie Balquhidder battle beautiful Bertram Bewcastle Bride of Lammermoor Caerlaverock Caerlaverock Castle Caleb called character clan cliff Clyde dark death deep Dinmont duke Dumfries Dunbarton Edinburgh Engraved exclaimed Eyemouth Fast Castle feet Firth formed fortress Frank Osbaldistone friends gentleman grace Gustavus Guy Mannering hand head Heart of Midlothian Helen Highland hills honour horse hung Inverlochy Inverlochy Castle Jeanie Deans Jenny king Lady Laird lake land Landlord Leven Loch Lomond Lochy Lord Melville miles military Montrose mountain murder novelist occupied Old Mortality Oldbuck original pass of Bally-Brough picturesque popinjay possession Ravenswood river river Leven Rob Roy Rob Roy's rock romantic scene scenery Scotland Scottish seat seemed shore side Sir Walter Scott Smailholm Tower spot Tillietudlem tower vale vicinity village waters Waverley Novels waves wild Wolf's Crag Wolf's Hope young
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Página 6 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 45 - WALY waly up the bank, And waly waly down the brae, And waly waly yon...
Página 6 - The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation of towering clouds through which he had travelled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire, and falling monarch.
Página 6 - Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev"n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reel'd, they set, they...
Página 102 - How melts my beating heart, as I behold Each lovely nymph, our island's boast and pride, Push on the generous steed, that sweeps along O'er rough, o'er smooth, nor heeds the steepy hill, Nor falters in the extended vale below ! The Chase.
Página 60 - ... stone, stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant. A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive. The sombrous and heavy sound of the billows, successively dashing against the rocky beach at a profound distance beneath, was to the ear what the landscape was to the eye — a symbol of unvaried and monotonous melancholy, not unmingled with horror.
Página 2 - Thus while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charm'd me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time ; And feelings, roused in life's first day, Glow in the line, and prompt the lay.
Página 6 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; — Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide,- And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Página 6 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...