Waverley, or, 'Tis sixty years sinceJ.W. Lovell, 1899 |
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... less forcible for more appropriate epithets - slight alterations in short , like the last touches of an artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist ...
... less forcible for more appropriate epithets - slight alterations in short , like the last touches of an artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist ...
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... less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Com- mentaries of Cæsar to the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector . * I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out my first ...
... less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Com- mentaries of Cæsar to the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector . * I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out my first ...
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... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own dis- posal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ramsay , which , be- sides containing a ...
... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own dis- posal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ramsay , which , be- sides containing a ...
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... less degree of trouble which I should take to qualify myself as a pleader . It makes no part of the present story to detail how the success of a few ballads had the effect of changing all the purpose and tenor of my life , and of ...
... less degree of trouble which I should take to qualify myself as a pleader . It makes no part of the present story to detail how the success of a few ballads had the effect of changing all the purpose and tenor of my life , and of ...
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... less accessible and much less visited than they have been of late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were , like most veterans , easily induced to fight their battles over again for the benefit of a ...
... less accessible and much less visited than they have been of late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were , like most veterans , easily induced to fight their battles over again for the benefit of a ...
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