Waverley, Volumen 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1899 - 466 páginas |
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Página iii
... 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 ...
Página vii
... less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries 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 Commentaries 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 ...
Página viii
... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal . 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 disposal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ramsay , which , be- sides containing a ...
Página ix
... less de- gree 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 de- gree 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 ...
Página x
... 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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Página xi - Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact which pervade the works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted for my own country, of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for Ireland...
Página 154 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Página 423 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming : And foresters have busy been, To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 123 - Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death. When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath ; They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe, To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
Página 16 - Everard's discourse turned, is the very reverse of amber, which, itself a valuable substance, usually includes flies, straws, and other trifles ; whereas these studies, being themselves very insignificant and trifling, do nevertheless serve to perpetuate a great deal of what is rare and valuable in ancient manners, and to record many curious and minute facts, which could have been preserved and conveyed through no other medium.
Página 14 - Ere he attained this indifference, however, he had read, and stored in a memory of uncommon tenacity, much curious, though ill-arranged and miscellaneous information. In English literature he was master of Shakspeare and Milton, of our earlier dramatic authors ; of many picturesque and interesting passages from our old historical chronicles ; and was particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction...
Página 130 - He observed great ceremony in approaching Edward ; and though our hero was writhing with pain, would not proceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun.
Página 300 - 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 2 - ... consigned to the care of some aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle of the second volume, were doomed to guide the hero or heroine, to the ruinous precincts ? Would not the owl have shrieked and the cricket cried in my very title-page...
Página 96 - there is nothing in Perthshire that she need want, if she ask her father to fetch it, unless it be too hot or too heavy." " But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer, — a common thief!" " Common thief! No such thing: Donald Bean Lean never lifted less than a drove in his life.