Waverley; Or 'Tis Sixty Years Sinceanboco, 25 ago 2016 - 500 páginas It is the time of the Jacobite uprising of 1745 which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart, known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie". A young English dreamer and soldier, Edward Waverley, is sent to Scotland that year. He journeys north from his aristocratic family home, Waverley-Honour, in the south of England, first to the Scottish Lowlands and the home of family friend Baron Bradwardine, then into the Highlands and the heart of the rebellion and its aftermath. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 87
Página
... ENGLISH PRISONER CHAPTER L RATHER UNIMPORTANT CHAPTER LI INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS 'H. H. CHAPTER LII INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE CHAPTER LIII FERGUS A SUITOR CHAPTER LIV 'TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER' CHAPTER LV A BRAVE MAN IN ...
... ENGLISH PRISONER CHAPTER L RATHER UNIMPORTANT CHAPTER LI INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS 'H. H. CHAPTER LII INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE CHAPTER LIII FERGUS A SUITOR CHAPTER LIV 'TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER' CHAPTER LV A BRAVE MAN IN ...
Página
... English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been followed ...
... English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been followed ...
Página
... English sentinels that he could hear their muster-roll called. His food was brought to him by one of his daughters, a child of eight years old, whom Mrs. Stewart was under the necessity of entrusting with this commission; for her own ...
... English sentinels that he could hear their muster-roll called. His food was brought to him by one of his daughters, a child of eight years old, whom Mrs. Stewart was under the necessity of entrusting with this commission; for her own ...
Página
... English of the present day. As for the plunder supposed to have been picked up by some of the insurgents in 1745, it must be remembered that, although the way of that unfortunate little army was neither marked by devastation nor ...
... English of the present day. As for the plunder supposed to have been picked up by some of the insurgents in 1745, it must be remembered that, although the way of that unfortunate little army was neither marked by devastation nor ...
Página
... English e'en borrow and len', Let anger fa'. Their boasts and bullying, not worth a louse, As our King's the best about the house. 'T is ay good to be sober and douce, To live in peace; For many, I see, for being o'er crouse, Gets ...
... English e'en borrow and len', Let anger fa'. Their boasts and bullying, not worth a louse, As our King's the best about the house. 'T is ay good to be sober and douce, To live in peace; For many, I see, for being o'er crouse, Gets ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered appeared arms army attended auld Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother caligae 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 followed Footnote frae Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart Jacobite Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Maccombich 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 romantic Rose Bradwardine scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon supposed sword thought Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig young