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... too liberally , the ingenious author had raised up an obstacle to his own success . Every work designed * See Appendix No. II . for mere amusement must be expressed in language easily comprehended THE WAVERLEY NOVELS xiii.
... too liberally , the ingenious author had raised up an obstacle to his own success . Every work designed * See Appendix No. II . for mere amusement must be expressed in language easily comprehended THE WAVERLEY NOVELS xiii.
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Walter Scott. for mere amusement must be expressed in language easily comprehended ; and when , as is sometimes the case in Queen- hoo Hall , the author addresses himself exclusively to the antiquary , he must be content to be dismissed ...
Walter Scott. for mere amusement must be expressed in language easily comprehended ; and when , as is sometimes the case in Queen- hoo Hall , the author addresses himself exclusively to the antiquary , he must be content to be dismissed ...
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... expressed to learn the name of the au- thor , but on this no authentic information could be attained . My original motive for publishing the work anonymously was the consciousness that it was an experiment on the public taste which ...
... expressed to learn the name of the au- thor , but on this no authentic information could be attained . My original motive for publishing the work anonymously was the consciousness that it was an experiment on the public taste which ...
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... expression , and opinions broached in these Tales and such as were used by their Author in the intercourse of private life must have been far too great to permit any of my familiar acquaintances to doubt the identity betwixt their ...
... expression , and opinions broached in these Tales and such as were used by their Author in the intercourse of private life must have been far too great to permit any of my familiar acquaintances to doubt the identity betwixt their ...
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... expressed himself , I knew his opinion was entirely formed , and that any disclamations of mine would only have savored of affectation . I do not mean to insinuate that the incident did not happen , but only that it could hardly have ...
... expressed himself , I knew his opinion was entirely formed , and that any disclamations of mine would only have savored of affectation . I do not mean to insinuate that the incident did not happen , but only that it could hardly have ...
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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.