Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceAdam & Charles Black, 1890 - 191 páginas |
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... 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 . The General Preface to the new Edition , and the Introductory ...
... 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 . The General Preface to the new Edition , and the Introductory ...
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... short I may have fallen of it in practice . But it was not only the triumphs of Miss Edgeworth which worked in me emulation , and disturbed my indolence . I chanced actually to engage in a work which formed a sort of essay piece , and ...
... short I may have fallen of it in practice . But it was not only the triumphs of Miss Edgeworth which worked in me emulation , and disturbed my indolence . I chanced actually to engage in a work which formed a sort of essay piece , and ...
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... short , the Author believes his brother would have made himself distinguished in that striking field , in which , since that period , Mr. Cooper has achieved so many triumphs . But Mr. T. Scott was already affected by bad health , which ...
... short , the Author believes his brother would have made himself distinguished in that striking field , in which , since that period , Mr. Cooper has achieved so many triumphs . But Mr. T. Scott was already affected by bad health , which ...
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... short as it is , may be held as pledging the author to some special mode of laying his scene , drawing his characters , and managing his adventures . Had I , for example , announced in my frontispiece , ' Waverley , a Tale of other Days ...
... short as it is , may be held as pledging the author to some special mode of laying his scene , drawing his characters , and managing his adventures . Had I , for example , announced in my frontispiece , ' Waverley , a Tale of other Days ...
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... short these will fall of their aim , if I shall be found unable to mix them with amusement , - -a task not quite so easy in this critical generation as it was ' Sixty Years since . ' CHAPTER II . WAVERLEY - HONOUR .-- A RETROSPECT ...
... short these will fall of their aim , if I shall be found unable to mix them with amusement , - -a task not quite so easy in this critical generation as it was ' Sixty Years since . ' CHAPTER II . WAVERLEY - HONOUR .-- A RETROSPECT ...
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