The Waverley Novels, Volumen 1A. and C. Black, 1892 |
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ancient answered appeared arms army attended 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 English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart Jacobites Lady Laird letter look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Maccombich Macwheeble Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire Pinkie House portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned romance Rose Bradwardine Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon sword thought Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley Novels Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig words young
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Página 454 - gainst the oak his antlers frayed ; You shall see him brought to bay, " Waken, lords and ladies gay." Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Página 1 - I must modestly admit I am too diffident of my own merit to place it in unnecessary opposition to preconceived associations; I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil excepting what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it.
Página 454 - 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 70 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it : Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. 118 'Do the verses he sings/ asked Waverley, 'belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine ? '
Página xvi - My original motive for publishing the work anonymously, was, the consciousness that it was an experiment on the public taste, which might very probably fail, and therefore there was no occasion to take on myself the personal risk of discomfiture.
Página 343 - 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 438 - Chiefs do all but walk out of the canvas) could not have done more justice to the subject ; and the ardent, fiery, and impetuous character of the unfortunate Chief of Glennaquoich was finely contrasted with the contemplative, fanciful, and enthusiastic expression of his happier friend. Beside this painting hung the arms which Waverley had borne in the unfortunate civil war.
Página 454 - Waken, lords and ladies gay ! Waken, lords and ladies gay ! To the green-wood haste away : We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot, and tall of size ; We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed. You shall see him brought to bay ; Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Página 473 - Events of this kind pass in less time than the description of them can be written, or than it can be read . The Colonel was for a few moments supported by his men, and particularly by that worthy person...
Página 415 - 1 was only ganging to say, my lord,' said Evan, in what he meant to be an insinuating manner, 'that if your excellent honour and the honourable Court would let Vich Ian Vohr go free just this once, and let him gae back to France, and no to trouble King George's government again, that ony six o...