Waverley, Volumen 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1899 - 466 páginas |
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... officer parted with Sir Everard , the affectionate old ancle to whose title and estate he was presumptive heir . A difference in political opinions had early separated the baronet from his younger brother , Richard Waverley , the father ...
... officer parted with Sir Everard , the affectionate old ancle to whose title and estate he was presumptive heir . A difference in political opinions had early separated the baronet from his younger brother , Richard Waverley , the father ...
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... officer , immediately after this transaction , rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronized professional merit , although , to outward appearance , that was all he had to depend upon . The shock which ...
... officer , immediately after this transaction , rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronized professional merit , although , to outward appearance , that was all he had to depend upon . The shock which ...
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... officer of the ex- cise , who was afterwards tossed in a blanket on a moonless night , by an association of stout yeomen , for his officiousness . Nay , it was even said , that at the arrest of Sir William Wynd- ham , the leader of the ...
... officer of the ex- cise , who was afterwards tossed in a blanket on a moonless night , by an association of stout yeomen , for his officiousness . Nay , it was even said , that at the arrest of Sir William Wynd- ham , the leader of the ...
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... officer of dragoons , who wore , for the first time , his gold - laced hat , jack - boots , and broadsword . I know not whether , like the champion of an old ballad . His heart was all on honor bent , He could not stoop to love ; No ...
... officer of dragoons , who wore , for the first time , his gold - laced hat , jack - boots , and broadsword . I know not whether , like the champion of an old ballad . His heart was all on honor bent , He could not stoop to love ; No ...
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... officer , as a pledge of her regard , a valuable diamond ring ( often worn by the male sex at that time ) , and a purse of broad gold pieces , which also were more common Sixty Years since than they have been of late . 33 CHAPTER ...
... officer , as a pledge of her regard , a valuable diamond ring ( often worn by the male sex at that time ) , and a purse of broad gold pieces , which also were more common Sixty Years since than they have been of late . 33 CHAPTER ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered appeared arms army attend Bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley Castle CHAPTER character Chevalier chief Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean Edinburgh Edward Waverley Emma Darcy English Evan Dhu eyes father favor feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora frae Gay Bowers gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honor hope horse house of Stuart Ivor Jacobite Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray 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 romantic Rose Bradwardine Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon Stirling Castle sword thought tion Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waver Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig young
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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.