Waverley Or The Sixty Years SinceAdam and Charles Black, 1862 - 332 páginas |
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Página iii
... spirit of the dialogue . There is no doubt ample room for emendation in all these points , -- but where the tree falls it must lie . Any attempt to obviate criticism , however just , by altering a work already in the hands of the public ...
... spirit of the dialogue . There is no doubt ample room for emendation in all these points , -- but where the tree falls it must lie . Any attempt to obviate criticism , however just , by altering a work already in the hands of the public ...
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... spirit of the dialogue , narrative , or description . These consist in occasional pruning where the language is redundant , compression where the style is loose , infusion of vigour where it is languid , the ex- change of less forcible ...
... spirit of the dialogue , narrative , or description . These consist in occasional pruning where the language is redundant , compression where the style is loose , infusion of vigour where it is languid , the ex- change of less forcible ...
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... spirits , appetite , and impatience of fifteen , and suffered , of course , greatly under this severe regimen , which the repeated return of my disorder rendered indispensable , he will not be surprised that I was abandoned to my own ...
... spirits , appetite , and impatience of fifteen , and suffered , of course , greatly under this severe regimen , which the repeated return of my disorder rendered indispensable , he will not be surprised that I was abandoned to my own ...
Página vii
... spirit of a people , who , living in a civilised age and country , retained so strong a tincture of manners belonging to an early period of society , must afford a subject favourable for romance , if it should not prove a curious tale ...
... spirit of a people , who , living in a civilised age and country , retained so strong a tincture of manners belonging to an early period of society , must afford a subject favourable for romance , if it should not prove a curious tale ...
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... spirit which he had displayed when a boy in his native country . Mr Scott would probably have been highly successful , being familiarly acquainted with the manners of the native Indians , of the old French settlers in Canada , and of ...
... spirit which he had displayed when a boy in his native country . Mr Scott would probably have been highly successful , being familiarly acquainted with the manners of the native Indians , of the old French settlers in Canada , and of ...
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