Waverley Or The Sixty Years SinceAdam and Charles Black, 1862 - 332 páginas |
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... Highland scenery and customs made so favourable an impression in the poem called the Lady of the Lake , that 1 was induced to think of attempting something of the same kind in prose . I had been a good deal in the Highlands at a time ...
... Highland scenery and customs made so favourable an impression in the poem called the Lady of the Lake , that 1 was induced to think of attempting something of the same kind in prose . I had been a good deal in the Highlands at a time ...
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... Highland and Lowland ; having been familiar with the elder , as well as more modern race ; and having had from my infancy free and unrestrained communication with all ranks of my countrymen , from the Scottish peer to the Scottish ...
... Highland and Lowland ; having been familiar with the elder , as well as more modern race ; and having had from my infancy free and unrestrained communication with all ranks of my countrymen , from the Scottish peer to the Scottish ...
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... Highland story , and more modern events , would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the tale which I had actually com- menced , and accident at length threw ...
... Highland story , and more modern events , would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the tale which I had actually com- menced , and accident at length threw ...
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... Highlands , sometimes in the deep coal - mines of Northumberland and Cumberland , which run so far beneath the ocean . It is also to be found in Reginald Scott's book on Witchcraft , which was written in the sixteenth century . It would ...
... Highlands , sometimes in the deep coal - mines of Northumberland and Cumberland , which run so far beneath the ocean . It is also to be found in Reginald Scott's book on Witchcraft , which was written in the sixteenth century . It would ...
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... Highland army were executed without mercy , Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit , as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits , on which occasion he spent a day or two in Ayrshire among Colonel White ...
... Highland army were executed without mercy , Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit , as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits , on which occasion he spent a day or two in Ayrshire among Colonel White ...
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ancient answered appeared arms army attend Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley castle CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command danger dear Donald Bean Lean dress Edinburgh Emma Darcy English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora frae Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stewart Jacobite Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid poor portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned romantic scene Scotland Scottish seemed shewed Sir Everard sister soldiers spirit Spontoon sword thought tion Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig wish young