Waverley; Or, 'T is Sixty Years Since. Copyright Ed. With the Portraits of the AuthorTauchnitz, 1845 - 483 páginas |
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... , not worth a louse , As our King's the best about the house . ' Tis ay good to be sober and douce , To live in peace ; For many , I see , for being o'er crouse , Gets broken face . WAVERLEY . CHAPTER I. Introductory . THE title of this 8.
... , not worth a louse , As our King's the best about the house . ' Tis ay good to be sober and douce , To live in peace ; For many , I see , for being o'er crouse , Gets broken face . WAVERLEY . CHAPTER I. Introductory . THE title of this 8.
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... chapter to the public . Some favourable opportunities of contrast have been afforded me , by the state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history , and may serve at once to vary and to illustrate the moral ...
... chapter to the public . Some favourable opportunities of contrast have been afforded me , by the state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history , and may serve at once to vary and to illustrate the moral ...
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... chapter . CHAPTER III . Education . THE education of our hero , Edward Waverley , was of a nature somewhat desultory . In infancy , his health suffered , or was supposed to suffer , ( which is quite the same thing , ) by the air of ...
... chapter . CHAPTER III . Education . THE education of our hero , Edward Waverley , was of a nature somewhat desultory . In infancy , his health suffered , or was supposed to suffer , ( which is quite the same thing , ) by the air of ...
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... CHAPTER IV . Castle - Building . I HAVE already hinted , that the dainty , squeamish , and fasti- dious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading , had not only ren- dered our hero unfit for serious and sober study , but had even ...
... CHAPTER IV . Castle - Building . I HAVE already hinted , that the dainty , squeamish , and fasti- dious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading , had not only ren- dered our hero unfit for serious and sober study , but had even ...
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... chapter . CHAPTER V. Choice of a Profession . FROM the minuteness with which I have traced Waverley's pursuits , and the bias which these unavoidably communicated to his imagination , the reader may perhaps anticipate , in the follow ...
... chapter . CHAPTER V. Choice of a Profession . FROM the minuteness with which I have traced Waverley's pursuits , and the bias which these unavoidably communicated to his imagination , the reader may perhaps anticipate , in the follow ...
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ancient answered appeared arms army attended auld Bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword Cairnvreckan caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley Castle Caterans CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean dragoons Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora frae Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stewart Jacobite lady Laird letter look Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Maccombich Macwheeble Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never Nicholas Amhurst night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid poor portmanteau Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned Rose Bradwardine Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers Spontoon sword tartan thought tion Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig wish words young