Waverley, or, 'Tis sixty years sinceJ.W. Lovell, 1899 |
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... respects abuse the license permitted me . Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of fiction brought with it some degree of satiety , and I began by degrees to seek in histories , memoirs , voyages and travels , and the like ...
... respects abuse the license permitted me . Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of fiction brought with it some degree of satiety , and I began by degrees to seek in histories , memoirs , voyages and travels , and the like ...
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... respect as impassible to the critic as the Ghost of Hamlet to the partisan of Marcellus . Perhaps the curiosity of the public , irritated by the existence of a secret , and kept afloat by the discussions which took place on the subject ...
... respect as impassible to the critic as the Ghost of Hamlet to the partisan of Marcellus . Perhaps the curiosity of the public , irritated by the existence of a secret , and kept afloat by the discussions which took place on the subject ...
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... respects rank lower than its predecessors . I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege as one reason of my silence a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labors . It is in ...
... respects rank lower than its predecessors . I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege as one reason of my silence a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labors . It is in ...
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... respecting the Edition is the business of the publishers , not of the Author ; and here , therefore , the latter has accomplished his task of Introduction and explana- tion . If , like a spoiled child , he has sometimes abused or ...
... respecting the Edition is the business of the publishers , not of the Author ; and here , therefore , the latter has accomplished his task of Introduction and explana- tion . If , like a spoiled child , he has sometimes abused or ...
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... respecting the Knight of the Mirror , may be quoted as good evidence . * A homely metrical narrative of the events of the period , which contains some striking particulars , and is still a great favorite with the lower classes , gives a ...
... respecting the Knight of the Mirror , may be quoted as good evidence . * A homely metrical narrative of the events of the period , which contains some striking particulars , and is still a great favorite with the lower classes , gives a ...
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