Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since: In Three Volumes..James Ballantyne and Company, 1814 - 371 páginas |
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... lived , cannot have been so much affected by my supposed death as to hasten his own ; no , I will not believe it , -it were distraction to entertain for a moment such a horrible idea . But it were , if possible , worse than parricide to ...
... lived , cannot have been so much affected by my supposed death as to hasten his own ; no , I will not believe it , -it were distraction to entertain for a moment such a horrible idea . But it were , if possible , worse than parricide to ...
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... lived chiefly with his friends or with the army , yet he found , that after settling with his kind landlord , he would be too poor to encounter the expence of travel- ling post , The best course , therefore , seemed WAVERLEY . ' 185.
... lived chiefly with his friends or with the army , yet he found , that after settling with his kind landlord , he would be too poor to encounter the expence of travel- ling post , The best course , therefore , seemed WAVERLEY . ' 185.
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... lived in what is called great style.be When Waverley knocked at his door , he found it at first difficult to procure ad- mittance , but at length was shewn into an apartment where the Colonel was at table . Lady Emily , whose very ...
... lived in what is called great style.be When Waverley knocked at his door , he found it at first difficult to procure ad- mittance , but at length was shewn into an apartment where the Colonel was at table . Lady Emily , whose very ...
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... lived , and as weel - fa'rd too . Oh , d'ye ken , sir , whan he is to suf- fer ? " " Suffer ! why , where is he ? " " Eh , Lord's sake ! d'ye no ken ? The poor Hieland body , Dugald Mahony , cam , here a while since wi ' ane o ' his ...
... lived , and as weel - fa'rd too . Oh , d'ye ken , sir , whan he is to suf- fer ? " " Suffer ! why , where is he ? " " Eh , Lord's sake ! d'ye no ken ? The poor Hieland body , Dugald Mahony , cam , here a while since wi ' ane o ' his ...
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... lived on his ground this twa hundred years ; and when he keeped my puir Jamie at school and college , and even at the Ha ' - house , till he gaed to a better place ; and when he saved me frae being ta'en to Perth as a witch - Lord ...
... lived on his ground this twa hundred years ; and when he keeped my puir Jamie at school and college , and even at the Ha ' - house , till he gaed to a better place ; and when he saved me frae being ta'en to Perth as a witch - Lord ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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...