Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceWaverley book Company, 1898 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 78
Página xxviii
... door , Take cocks , hens , sheep , and hogs , And pay naught for . I saw a Highlander , ' twas right drole , With a string of puddings hung on a pole , Whip'd o'er his shoulder , skipped like a fole , Caus'd Maggy bann , Lap o'er the ...
... door , Take cocks , hens , sheep , and hogs , And pay naught for . I saw a Highlander , ' twas right drole , With a string of puddings hung on a pole , Whip'd o'er his shoulder , skipped like a fole , Caus'd Maggy bann , Lap o'er the ...
Página 7
... door of Richard ) , and if it had , the marriage of the proprietor might have been fatal to a collateral heir . These various ideas floated through the brain of Sir Everard without , however , producing any determined conclusion . He ...
... door of Richard ) , and if it had , the marriage of the proprietor might have been fatal to a collateral heir . These various ideas floated through the brain of Sir Everard without , however , producing any determined conclusion . He ...
Página 11
... door of reconciliation with his elder brother . Their intercourse , however , though thus renewed , con- tinued to be rather formal and civil than partaking of broth- erly cordiality ; yet it was sufficient to the wishes of both parties ...
... door of reconciliation with his elder brother . Their intercourse , however , though thus renewed , con- tinued to be rather formal and civil than partaking of broth- erly cordiality ; yet it was sufficient to the wishes of both parties ...
Página 19
... door along the little gallery , and up to the saloon , where they laid him down to die at his mother's feet . But there was comfort exchanged between them ; for he knew , from the glance of his mother's eye , that the pur- pose of his ...
... door along the little gallery , and up to the saloon , where they laid him down to die at his mother's feet . But there was comfort exchanged between them ; for he knew , from the glance of his mother's eye , that the pur- pose of his ...
Página 42
... door , while on the other the family dunghill ascended in noble emulation . About a bowshot from the end of the village appeared the inclosures proudly denominated the Parks of Tully - Veolan , being certain square fields , surrounded ...
... door , while on the other the family dunghill ascended in noble emulation . About a bowshot from the end of the village appeared the inclosures proudly denominated the Parks of Tully - Veolan , being certain square fields , surrounded ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Classic Reprint) Walter Scott No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Classic Reprint) Walter Scott No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
answered appeared arms attended auld Bailie Baron Bradwardine 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 Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora followed frae gentleman Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering gypsey hand Hatteraick head heard hero Highland honor hope horse house of Stuart Jacobites Julia lady Laird letter Liddesdale look Lucy Mac-Morlan Macwheeble maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning never night observed occasion party person Pleydell poor portmanteau prisoner rendered replied returned Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard Sir Robert Spontoon stranger supposed tell there's thought tion Tully-Veolan turned Vich Ian Vohr voice wardine Waverley-Honor Waverley's weel Whig wish Woodbourne young Hazlewood
Pasajes populares
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 19 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
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 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 431 - The gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce, have since united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings as different from their grandfathers, as the existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time.
Página 39 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
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?
Página 22 - ... that more common aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring.
Página 432 - Gaelic) to reside, during my childhood and youth, among persons of the above description ; and now, for the purpose of preserving some idea of the ancient manners of which I have witnessed the almost total extinction, I have embodied in imaginary scenes, and ascribed to fictitious characters, a part of the incidents which I then received from those who were actors in them. Indeed, the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact.
Página 108 - there is nothing in Perthshire that she need want, if she ask her father to fetch it,, unless it be too hot or too heavy." " But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer — a common thief!" " Common thief I — no such thing : Donald Bean Lean never lifted less than a drove in his life.