Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry's European Libr., 1837 - 632 páginas |
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... observed even in children , who cannot endure that a nursery story should be re- peated to them differently from the manner in which it was first told . But , without altering in the slightest degree , either the story or the mode of ...
... observed even in children , who cannot endure that a nursery story should be re- peated to them differently from the manner in which it was first told . But , without altering in the slightest degree , either the story or the mode of ...
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... observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the Cor- rector . I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out my first ...
... observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the Cor- rector . I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out my first ...
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... observe , that about this time ( now , alas ! thirty years since ) I had nourished the ambitious desire of composing a tale of chivalry , which was to be in the style of the Castle of Otranto , with plenty of Border characters , and ...
... observe , that about this time ( now , alas ! thirty years since ) I had nourished the ambitious desire of composing a tale of chivalry , which was to be in the style of the Castle of Otranto , with plenty of Border characters , and ...
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... observed . I could appear , or retreat from the stage , at pleasure , without attracting any personal notice or attention , other than what might be founded on suspicion only . In my own person also , as a successful author in another ...
... observed . I could appear , or retreat from the stage , at pleasure , without attracting any personal notice or attention , other than what might be founded on suspicion only . In my own person also , as a successful author in another ...
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... observed , I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ; namely , that the mental organization of the Novelist must be characterised , to speak craniologically , by an extra- ordinary ...
... observed , I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ; namely , that the mental organization of the Novelist must be characterised , to speak craniologically , by an extra- ordinary ...
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