Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceJ. & B. Williams, 1831 - 455 páginas |
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... to be in the style of the Castle of Otranto , with plenty of Border characters , and supernatural incident . Having found unexpectedly a chapter of this in- tended work among some old papers , I have subjoined GENERAL PREFACE .
... to be in the style of the Castle of Otranto , with plenty of Border characters , and supernatural incident . Having found unexpectedly a chapter of this in- tended work among some old papers , I have subjoined GENERAL PREFACE .
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... Chapter , I showed my work to a critical friend , whose opinion was unfavourable ; and having then some poetical reputation , I was unwilling to risk the loss of it by attempting a new style of composition . I there- fore threw aside ...
... Chapter , I showed my work to a critical friend , whose opinion was unfavourable ; and having then some poetical reputation , I was unwilling to risk the loss of it by attempting a new style of composition . I there- fore threw aside ...
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... chapter * is also added to the present Introduction , for the reason already mention- ed regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step in my advance towards romantic composition ; and to preserve the . traces of these is in a great ...
... chapter * is also added to the present Introduction , for the reason already mention- ed regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step in my advance towards romantic composition ; and to preserve the . traces of these is in a great ...
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... CHAPTER I. THE sun was nearly set behind the distant mountains of Liddesdale , when a few of the scattered and terrified inhab- itants of the village of Hersildoun , which had four days before been burned by a predatory band of English ...
... CHAPTER I. THE sun was nearly set behind the distant mountains of Liddesdale , when a few of the scattered and terrified inhab- itants of the village of Hersildoun , which had four days before been burned by a predatory band of English ...
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... CHAPTER IV . A HUNTING PARTY.AN ADVENTURE .-- A DELIVERANCE . THE next morning the bugles were sounded by day - break in the court of Lord Boteler's mansion , to call the inhab- itants from their slumbers , to assist in a splendid chase ...
... CHAPTER IV . A HUNTING PARTY.AN ADVENTURE .-- A DELIVERANCE . THE next morning the bugles were sounded by day - break in the court of Lord Boteler's mansion , to call the inhab- itants from their slumbers , to assist in a splendid chase ...
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