Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceGeorge Robertson, 1898 - 484 páginas |
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... appeared " marked with the sign of the beast ! " as a subject unfit for favor or pardon . At length Colonel Whitefoord applied to the Duke of Cumberland in person . From him , also , he received a posi- tive refusal . He then limited ...
... appeared " marked with the sign of the beast ! " as a subject unfit for favor or pardon . At length Colonel Whitefoord applied to the Duke of Cumberland in person . From him , also , he received a posi- tive refusal . He then limited ...
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... appeared too long to be so placed are given at the end of the chapters to which they severally relate . * PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION To this slight attempt at a sketch of ancient Scottish man- ners the public have been more favorable ...
... appeared too long to be so placed are given at the end of the chapters to which they severally relate . * PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION To this slight attempt at a sketch of ancient Scottish man- ners the public have been more favorable ...
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... appeared to stand in the same intimate relation to both families , although their mutual intercourse was otherwise limited to formal messages and more formal visits . The education of the youth was reguiated alternately by the taste and ...
... appeared to stand in the same intimate relation to both families , although their mutual intercourse was otherwise limited to formal messages and more formal visits . The education of the youth was reguiated alternately by the taste and ...
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... appeared , indeed , in full splendor in her father's pew upon the Sunday when he attended service for the last time at the old parish church , upon which occa- sion , at the request of his uncle and Aunt Rachel , he was induced ...
... appeared , indeed , in full splendor in her father's pew upon the Sunday when he attended service for the last time at the old parish church , upon which occa- sion , at the request of his uncle and Aunt Rachel , he was induced ...
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... appearing to proceed from the rider's mere volition , rather than from the use of any external and apparent ... appeared most to deserve and obtain regard in his new pro- fession . He asked himself in vain , why his eye could ...
... appearing to proceed from the rider's mere volition , rather than from the use of any external and apparent ... appeared most to deserve and obtain regard in his new pro- fession . He asked himself in vain , why his eye could ...
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answered appeared arms attended auld Bailie Baron of Bradwardine broadsword Brown called Callum Captain Waverley castle CHAPTER character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain clan Colonel Mannering Colonel Talbot command dear deyvil Dinmont Dirk Dominie door Edinburgh Edward Ellangowan Evan eyes father favor feelings Flora followed frae gentleman Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering gypsey hand Hatteraick head heard hero Highland honor hope horse house of Stuart Jacobite Julia lady Laird letter Liddesdale look Lord Lucy Mac-Morlan Macwheeble maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning never night observed occasion party person Pinkie House Pleydell poor portmanteau Prince prisoner rendered replied Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard Sir Robert spirit Spontoon supposed tell thought tion Tully-Veolan turned Vich Ian Vohr voice Waverley-Honor Waverley's weel Whig wish Woodbourne words young Hazlewood
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Página 88 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done!
Página 94 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 321 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Página 5 - I'll have the current in this place damm'd up ; And here the smug and silver Trent shall run In a new channel, fair and evenly : It shall not wind with such a deep indent. To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
Página 124 - That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press'd leaves...
Página 173 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
Página 58 - But see, his face is black and full of blood; His eyeballs further out than when he...
Página 33 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 359 - These reveries he was permitted to enjoy, undisturbed by queries or interruption ; and it was in many a winter walk by the shores of Ulswater, that he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by adversity, than his former experience had given him ; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced.
Página 190 - Waverley could ask particulars, a strong, largeboned, hard-featured woman, about forty, dressed as if her clothes had been flung on with a pitchfork, her cheeks flushed with a scarlet red where they were not smutted with soot and lampblack, jostled through the crowd, and, brandishing high a child of two years old, which she danced in her arms, without regard to its screams of terror, sang forth, with all her might — " Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling, Charlie is my darling, The young...