Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceAdam & Charles Black, 1890 - 191 páginas |
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... tion arose , in part at least , from my having broken a blood - vessel ; and motion and speech were for a long time pronounced positively dangerous . For several weeks I was confined strictly to my bed , during which time I was not ...
... tion arose , in part at least , from my having broken a blood - vessel ; and motion and speech were for a long time pronounced positively dangerous . For several weeks I was confined strictly to my bed , during which time I was not ...
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... tion of romances and novels of various descrip- tions ; but it is enough , and I scorn to tyrannize longer over the impatience of my reader , who is doubtless already anxious to know the choice made by an author so profoundly versed in ...
... tion of romances and novels of various descrip- tions ; but it is enough , and I scorn to tyrannize longer over the impatience of my reader , who is doubtless already anxious to know the choice made by an author so profoundly versed in ...
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... coffee - houses , and often pleaded for an additional gratuity , in considera- tion of the extra expense attached to frequenting such places of fashionable resort . Honour , with all its dependencies . But an hour WAVERLEY 11.
... coffee - houses , and often pleaded for an additional gratuity , in considera- tion of the extra expense attached to frequenting such places of fashionable resort . Honour , with all its dependencies . But an hour WAVERLEY 11.
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... tion , hitherto exacted from the well - governed childhood of this realm . It may , in the mean- time , be subject of serious consideration , whether those who are accustomed only to acquire instruction through the medium of amusement ...
... tion , hitherto exacted from the well - governed childhood of this realm . It may , in the mean- time , be subject of serious consideration , whether those who are accustomed only to acquire instruction through the medium of amusement ...
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... tion , the reader may perhaps anticipate , in the following tale , an imitation of the romance of Cervantes . But he will do my prudence in- justice in the supposition . My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable author ...
... tion , the reader may perhaps anticipate , in the following tale , an imitation of the romance of Cervantes . But he will do my prudence in- justice in the supposition . My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable author ...
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