Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since: In Three Volumes..James Ballantyne and Company, 1814 - 371 páginas |
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... Lady Emily Blandeville ; but I thought Colonel Talbot had been abroad . " " I am just returned ; and being in Scot- land , thought it my duty to act , where my services promised to be useful . Yes , Mr Waverley , I am that Colonel ...
... Lady Emily Blandeville ; but I thought Colonel Talbot had been abroad . " " I am just returned ; and being in Scot- land , thought it my duty to act , where my services promised to be useful . Yes , Mr Waverley , I am that Colonel ...
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... lady you have named ; and I am proud to acknowledge , that I owe alike my professional rank and my domes- tic happiness to your generous and noble- minded relative . Good God ! that I should find his nephew in such a dress , and en ...
... lady you have named ; and I am proud to acknowledge , that I owe alike my professional rank and my domes- tic happiness to your generous and noble- minded relative . Good God ! that I should find his nephew in such a dress , and en ...
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... is so particularly connect- ed with our worthy and excellent friend , Sir Edward Waverley , and since his lady is of the house of Blandeville , whose devo- tion B 2 WAVERLEY . 33 ved, if they did not correspond with his ...
... is so particularly connect- ed with our worthy and excellent friend , Sir Edward Waverley , and since his lady is of the house of Blandeville , whose devo- tion B 2 WAVERLEY . 33 ved, if they did not correspond with his ...
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... lady's temple as she wa- ved her handkerchief from a balcony . Fergus , who beheld the accident , was at her side in an instant ; and , on beholding the wound was trifling , he drew his broad- sword , with the purpose of rushing down ...
... lady's temple as she wa- ved her handkerchief from a balcony . Fergus , who beheld the accident , was at her side in an instant ; and , on beholding the wound was trifling , he drew his broad- sword , with the purpose of rushing down ...
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... ladies of the party did not escape his censure . He allowed that Flora Mac- Ivor was a fine woman , and Rose Brad- wardine a pretty girl . But he alleged that the former destroyed the effect of her beauty by an affectation of the grand ...
... ladies of the party did not escape his censure . He allowed that Flora Mac- Ivor was a fine woman , and Rose Brad- wardine a pretty girl . But he alleged that the former destroyed the effect of her beauty by an affectation of the grand ...
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Alick answered arms auld Baillie Baron of Bradwardine battle of Preston Bodach Bradwar caliga called Captain Butler Carlisle Carlisle Castle castle CHAPTER Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot Common Moor court Davie dear Donald dragoons Duchran Duke of Cumberland Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora gentleman Glennaquoich hand happy heard Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart inclosures Ivor Jacobites Janet Lady Emily laird leave letter look Maccombich Macwheeble ment military mind Miss Bradwardine morning never night Nosebag party pass person poor Prince prisoner puir quarrel reader regiment Rose Bradwardine Royal Highness Scotland seemed shewed sion Sir Everard soldiers soon spirit Spontoon Stanley stood suppose tell thing thought tion troop Tully-Veolan turn verley Vich Ian Vohr ward wardine Waver Waverley-Honour Waverley's whilk wish words young
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Página 363 - This race has now almost entirely vanished from the land, and with it, doubtless, much absurd political prejudice ; but also, many living examples of singular and disinterested attachment to the principles of loyalty which they received from their fathers, and of old Scottish faith, hospitality, worth, and honour.
Página 280 - So choosing solitary to abide Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds, And hellish arts, from people she might hide, And hurt far off, unknown, whomsoever she espied.
Página 298 - Saxon gentlemen are laughing," he said, "because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they may be very right ; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my word, and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a Hielandman, nor the honour of a gentleman.
Página 361 - The effects of the insurrection of 1 745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, — the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs...