Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceGeorge Robertson, 1898 - 484 páginas |
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... head . So many to curse , so few to pray , And some aloud huzza did cry ; They cursed the rebel Scots that day , As they'd been nowt Brought up for slaughter , as that way Too many rowt . Therefore , alas ! dear countrymen , O never do ...
... head . So many to curse , so few to pray , And some aloud huzza did cry ; They cursed the rebel Scots that day , As they'd been nowt Brought up for slaughter , as that way Too many rowt . Therefore , alas ! dear countrymen , O never do ...
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... head to bring them into action . Our hero was liable to fits of absence , in which his blunders excited some mirth , and called down some reproof . This circumstance impressed him with a painful sense of inferiority in those qualities ...
... head to bring them into action . Our hero was liable to fits of absence , in which his blunders excited some mirth , and called down some reproof . This circumstance impressed him with a painful sense of inferiority in those qualities ...
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... heads , formed more pleasing objects , and , with their thin short gowns and single petticoats , bare arms , legs , and feet ... head and complexion shrouded from the sun , or perhaps might even have thought the whole person and dress ...
... heads , formed more pleasing objects , and , with their thin short gowns and single petticoats , bare arms , legs , and feet ... head and complexion shrouded from the sun , or perhaps might even have thought the whole person and dress ...
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... head and fore - paws a sun - dial of large circumference , inscribed with more diagrams than Edward's mathematics enabled him to decipher . The garden , which seemed to be kept with great accuracy , abounded in fruit - trees , and ...
... head and fore - paws a sun - dial of large circumference , inscribed with more diagrams than Edward's mathematics enabled him to decipher . The garden , which seemed to be kept with great accuracy , abounded in fruit - trees , and ...
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... head of the avenue ; for an old man , who acted as porter upon gala days , had caught the alarm given by Waverley's arrival , and , repairing to his post , announced the arrival of other guests . These , as the Baron assured his young ...
... head of the avenue ; for an old man , who acted as porter upon gala days , had caught the alarm given by Waverley's arrival , and , repairing to his post , announced the arrival of other guests . These , as the Baron assured his young ...
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answered appeared arms attended auld Bailie Bradwardine broadsword Brown called Callum Captain Waverley castle CHAPTER character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain circumstances 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 supposed tell thought tion Tully-Veolan turned Vich Ian Vohr voice wardine Waverley-Honor Waverley's weel Whig wish Woodbourne words young Hazlewood وو
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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 323 - 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 126 - 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...