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... Highland scenery and customs made so favourable an impression in the poem called the Lady of the Lake , that I was induced to think of attempting some- thing of the same kind in prose . I had been a good deal in the Highlands at a time ...
... Highland scenery and customs made so favourable an impression in the poem called the Lady of the Lake , that I was induced to think of attempting some- thing of the same kind in prose . I had been a good deal in the Highlands at a time ...
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... Highland and Lowland , having been familiar with the elder as well as more modern race , and having had from my infancy free and unrestrained communication with all ranks of my countrymen , from the Scottish peer to the Scottish ...
... Highland and Lowland , having been familiar with the elder as well as more modern race , and having had from my infancy free and unrestrained communication with all ranks of my countrymen , from the Scottish peer to the Scottish ...
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... Highland story and more modern events would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the tale which I had actually commenced , and accident at length threw the ...
... Highland story and more modern events would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the tale which I had actually commenced , and accident at length threw the ...
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... Highland army were executed without mercy , Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit , as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits , on which occasion he spent a day or two in Ayrshire among Colonel ...
... Highland army were executed without mercy , Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit , as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits , on which occasion he spent a day or two in Ayrshire among Colonel ...
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... Highland hands . A steady and powerful west wind settled the matter by sweeping Paul Jones and his vessels out of the Firth . If there is something degrading in this recollection , it is not unpleasant to compare it with those of the ...
... Highland hands . A steady and powerful west wind settled the matter by sweeping Paul Jones and his vessels out of the Firth . If there is something degrading in this recollection , it is not unpleasant to compare it with those of the ...
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