Waverley: Or 't is Sixty Years SinceTauchnitz, 1845 - 483 páginas |
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... , not worth a louse , As our King's the best about the house . ' Tis ay good to be sober and douce , To live in peace ; For many , I see , for being o'er crouse , Gets broken face . WAVERLEY . CHAPTER I. Introductory . THE title of this 8.
... , not worth a louse , As our King's the best about the house . ' Tis ay good to be sober and douce , To live in peace ; For many , I see , for being o'er crouse , Gets broken face . WAVERLEY . CHAPTER I. Introductory . THE title of this 8.
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Or 't is Sixty Years Since Walter Scott. WAVERLEY . CHAPTER I. Introductory . THE title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation , which matters of importance demand from the prudent . Even its first , or ...
Or 't is Sixty Years Since Walter Scott. WAVERLEY . CHAPTER I. Introductory . THE title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation , which matters of importance demand from the prudent . Even its first , or ...
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... chapter to the public . Some favourable opportunities of contrast have been afforded me , by the state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history , and may serve at once to vary and to illustrate the moral ...
... chapter to the public . Some favourable opportunities of contrast have been afforded me , by the state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history , and may serve at once to vary and to illustrate the moral ...
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... chapter . CHAPTER III . Education . THE education of our hero , Edward Waverley , was of a nature somewhat desultory . In infancy , his health suffered , or was supposed to suffer , ( which is quite the same thing , ) by the air of ...
... chapter . CHAPTER III . Education . THE education of our hero , Edward Waverley , was of a nature somewhat desultory . In infancy , his health suffered , or was supposed to suffer , ( which is quite the same thing , ) by the air of ...
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... CHAPTER IV . Castle - Building . I HAVE already hinted , that the dainty , squeamish , and fasti- dious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading , had not only ren- dered our hero unfit for serious and sober study , but had even ...
... CHAPTER IV . Castle - Building . I HAVE already hinted , that the dainty , squeamish , and fasti- dious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading , had not only ren- dered our hero unfit for serious and sober study , but had even ...
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ancient answered appeared arms army attended auld Bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword Cairnvreckan caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley Castle Caterans CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean dragoons Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora frae Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stewart Jacobite lady Laird letter look Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Macwheeble Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid poor portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned Richard Waverley Rose Bradwardine Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers Spontoon sword tartan thought tion Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig wish words young