Waverley Novels: From the Last Rev. Ed., Containing the Author's Final Corrections, Notes, &c, Volumen 12S.H. Parker and B.B. Mussey, 1852 |
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... wish to have avoided that hackneyed simile of an angel , we cannot avoid saying there was something in the serious beauty of her aspect , in the measured , yet graceful ease of her motions , in the music of her voice , and the serene ...
... wish to have avoided that hackneyed simile of an angel , we cannot avoid saying there was something in the serious beauty of her aspect , in the measured , yet graceful ease of her motions , in the music of her voice , and the serene ...
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... wish to be interested and pleased with what was going forward , but was rather placidly carri- ed along with the stream of mirth and pleasure , than dis- posed to aid its progress by any efforts of her own . She endured mirth , rather ...
... wish to be interested and pleased with what was going forward , but was rather placidly carri- ed along with the stream of mirth and pleasure , than dis- posed to aid its progress by any efforts of her own . She endured mirth , rather ...
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... wish they were peculiar to himself , ) of cultivating the glebe six days in the week , preaching on the seventh with due regularity , and dining with some fat franklin or country laird , with whom he could smoke a pipe and drink a ...
... wish they were peculiar to himself , ) of cultivating the glebe six days in the week , preaching on the seventh with due regularity , and dining with some fat franklin or country laird , with whom he could smoke a pipe and drink a ...
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... wish you would speak sense , or be the silent wo- man , " said Triptolemus . " The upshot of it all is , then , that this lad is the rich stranger's son , and that you are giving him the goose you were to keep till Michaelmas ...
... wish you would speak sense , or be the silent wo- man , " said Triptolemus . " The upshot of it all is , then , that this lad is the rich stranger's son , and that you are giving him the goose you were to keep till Michaelmas ...
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... wish to reassume his wet garments , and pressed him ( at the risk of an expensive supper being added to the charges of the day ) to tarry with them till the next morning . But what Norna had said excited the youth's wish to reach home ...
... wish to reassume his wet garments , and pressed him ( at the risk of an expensive supper being added to the charges of the day ) to tarry with them till the next morning . But what Norna had said excited the youth's wish to reach home ...
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amongst ancient answered arms ashore Baby betwixt boat boatswain Brenda Bryce Snailsfoot Bunce Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro Cleve command crew dance dark daughters Dick Fletcher eyes fair father favour fear Fitful-head gentlemen of fortune glorious John Goffe guests hand hear heard heart Heaven honest honour islands isles jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall land look Magnus Troil maiden manner matter mind Minna Troil Mistress Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse occasion Odin old Norse once Orcadian Orkney pedlar pirate poor provost ranzelman replied Mordaunt rock sail Saint Magnus Saint Ninian scarce Scotland seemed shore sister sloop song speak spirit spoke stood stranger Swertha tell thee thing thou thought tion tone Triptolemus Yellowley turn Udaller vessel voice waves weel wild wind woman word young youth Zetland
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Página 187 - Goes on to sea, and knows not to retire. With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, Whose low-laid mouths each mounting billow laves : Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length, She seems a sea-wasp flying on the waves.
Página 119 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 235 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Página 194 - I fear, too early : for my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels...
Página 31 - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyes, Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 60 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history...
Página 162 - Portugal I sung, Was but the prelude to that glorious day, When thou on silver Thames didst cut thy way, With...