Waverley, Volumen 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1899 - 466 páginas |
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... perhaps somewhat obscure by the lapse of time . For these , the Publishers have been chiefly indebted to David Laing , LL.D. , Secretary of the Bannatyne Club and one of the few surviving friends of the Author . Fortunately , there is ...
... perhaps somewhat obscure by the lapse of time . For these , the Publishers have been chiefly indebted to David Laing , LL.D. , Secretary of the Bannatyne Club and one of the few surviving friends of the Author . Fortunately , there is ...
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... perhaps , its frivolity ) which prevents its finding an acknowledged father , leaves it to the candor of the pub- lic to choose among the many circumstances peculiar to different situations in life , such as may induce him to suppress ...
... perhaps , its frivolity ) which prevents its finding an acknowledged father , leaves it to the candor of the pub- lic to choose among the many circumstances peculiar to different situations in life , such as may induce him to suppress ...
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... perhaps be either graceful or prudent . In this particular , he runs the risk of presenting himself to the public in the relation that the dumb wife in the jest - book held to her husband , when , having spent half of his fortune to ...
... perhaps be either graceful or prudent . In this particular , he runs the risk of presenting himself to the public in the relation that the dumb wife in the jest - book held to her husband , when , having spent half of his fortune to ...
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... perhaps erroneous , however natural , permitted to select my subjects of study at my own pleasure , upon the same principle that the humors of chil- dren are indulged to keep them out of mischief . As my taste and appetite were ...
... perhaps erroneous , however natural , permitted to select my subjects of study at my own pleasure , upon the same principle that the humors of chil- dren are indulged to keep them out of mischief . As my taste and appetite were ...
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... characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind - hearted neighbors of Ireland , that she may be truly said to have done more toward completing the Union than perhaps all X GENERAL preface .
... characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind - hearted neighbors of Ireland , that she may be truly said to have done more toward completing the Union than perhaps all X GENERAL preface .
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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.