Waverley Or The Sixty Years SinceAdam and Charles Black, 1862 - 332 páginas |
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Página iv
... less forcible for more appropriate epithets - slight alterations , in short , like the last touches of an artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist ...
... less forcible for more appropriate epithets - slight alterations , in short , like the last touches of an artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist ...
Página v
... less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector . I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out my first achievements ...
... less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector . I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out my first achievements ...
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... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ramsay , which , besides containing a most ...
... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ramsay , which , besides containing a most ...
Página vii
... less accessible , and much less visited , than they have been of late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were , like most veterans , easily induced to fight their battles over again , for the benefit ...
... less accessible , and much less visited , than they have been of late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were , like most veterans , easily induced to fight their battles over again , for the benefit ...
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... less feel gratitude for the public favour , although I did not proclaim it , -as the lover who wears his mistress's favour in his bosom , is as proud , though not so vain of possessing it , as another who displays the token of her grace ...
... less feel gratitude for the public favour , although I did not proclaim it , -as the lover who wears his mistress's favour in his bosom , is as proud , though not so vain of possessing it , as another who displays the token of her grace ...
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