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. |
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... thought, too, that the ideal edition of Scott's works would not be complete without an adequate portrayal of his more memorable characters. This has been accomplished in a series of frontispieces specially painted for this edition by ...
... thought, too, that the ideal edition of Scott's works would not be complete without an adequate portrayal of his more memorable characters. This has been accomplished in a series of frontispieces specially painted for this edition by ...
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... thought of attempting a work of imagination in prose, although one or two of my poetical attempts did not differ from romances otherwise than by being written in verse. But yet I may observe, that about this time (now, alas! thirty ...
... thought of attempting a work of imagination in prose, although one or two of my poetical attempts did not differ from romances otherwise than by being written in verse. But yet I may observe, that about this time (now, alas! thirty ...
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... thoughts to the continuation of the romance which I had commenced, yet, as I could not find what I had already written, after searching such repositories as were ... thought also, that much of what I wanted in talent might be made up by.
... thoughts to the continuation of the romance which I had commenced, yet, as I could not find what I had already written, after searching such repositories as were ... thought also, that much of what I wanted in talent might be made up by.
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... thought I was aware of the reason, and supposed that, by rendering his language too ancient, and displaying his ... thoughts, therefore, returned more than once to the tale which I had actually commenced, and accident at length threw the ...
... thought I was aware of the reason, and supposed that, by rendering his language too ancient, and displaying his ... thoughts, therefore, returned more than once to the tale which I had actually commenced, and accident at length threw the ...
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... thought guilty of affectation, should I allege as one reason of my silence a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours. It is in every case a dangerous intercourse for an author to be dwelling ...
... thought guilty of affectation, should I allege as one reason of my silence a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours. It is in every case a dangerous intercourse for an author to be dwelling ...
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