Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceWaverley book Company, 1898 |
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... heart and pen , ' Tis needless now for to conten ' Or yet controule , For there's not a word o't I can men ' ; So ye must thole . For on both sides some were not good ; I saw them murd`ring in cold blood , Not the gentlemen , but wild ...
... heart and pen , ' Tis needless now for to conten ' Or yet controule , For there's not a word o't I can men ' ; So ye must thole . For on both sides some were not good ; I saw them murd`ring in cold blood , Not the gentlemen , but wild ...
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... heart , whether it throbbed under the steel corselet of the fifteenth century , the brocaded coat of the eighteenth , or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day . Upon these passions it is no doubt true that the ...
... heart , whether it throbbed under the steel corselet of the fifteenth century , the brocaded coat of the eighteenth , or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day . Upon these passions it is no doubt true that the ...
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... heart an early disappointment , would have remained a bachelor at seventy- two . The prospect of succession , however remote , might in that case have led him to endure dragging through the greater part of his life as " Master Richard ...
... heart an early disappointment , would have remained a bachelor at seventy- two . The prospect of succession , however remote , might in that case have led him to endure dragging through the greater part of his life as " Master Richard ...
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... heart - stirring and eye- dazzling descriptions of war and of tournaments , were among his chief favorites ; and from those of Brantôme and De la Noue he learned to compare the wild and loose , yet supersti- tious , character of the ...
... heart - stirring and eye- dazzling descriptions of war and of tournaments , were among his chief favorites ; and from those of Brantôme and De la Noue he learned to compare the wild and loose , yet supersti- tious , character of the ...
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... heart the jargon of heraldry , its griffins , its moldwarps , its wyverns , and its dragons , with all the bitterness of Hotspur himself , there were moments when these communications interested his fancy and rewarded his attention ...
... heart the jargon of heraldry , its griffins , its moldwarps , its wyverns , and its dragons , with all the bitterness of Hotspur himself , there were moments when these communications interested his fancy and rewarded his attention ...
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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
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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.