Waverley, Or, 'tis Sixty Years Since: In Three Volumes, Volumen 2Galignani, 1830 - 265 páginas |
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... character to fascinate a youth of romantic imagination . Her manners , her lan- guage , her talents for poetry and music , gave additional and varied influence to her eminent personal charms . Even in her hours of gaiety , she was in ...
... character to fascinate a youth of romantic imagination . Her manners , her lan- guage , her talents for poetry and music , gave additional and varied influence to her eminent personal charms . Even in her hours of gaiety , she was in ...
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... characters of a leach and a conjuror . He was an old smoke - dried Highlander , wearing a venerable grey beard , and having for his sole garment a tartan frock , the skirts of which descended to the knee , and , being undivided in front ...
... characters of a leach and a conjuror . He was an old smoke - dried Highlander , wearing a venerable grey beard , and having for his sole garment a tartan frock , the skirts of which descended to the knee , and , being undivided in front ...
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... character of a profound politician ; none of your shining orators , indeed , whose talents evaporate in tropes of rhetoric and flashes of wit , but one possessed of steady parts for bu- siness , which would wear well , as the ladies say ...
... character of a profound politician ; none of your shining orators , indeed , whose talents evaporate in tropes of rhetoric and flashes of wit , but one possessed of steady parts for bu- siness , which would wear well , as the ladies say ...
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... character , credit , and , -what he at least equally deplored , -emolument . Richard Waverley's letter to his son upon this occasion was a masterpiece of its kind . Aristides himself could not have made out a harder case . An unjust ...
... character , credit , and , -what he at least equally deplored , -emolument . Richard Waverley's letter to his son upon this occasion was a masterpiece of its kind . Aristides himself could not have made out a harder case . An unjust ...
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... character , should have proceeded in so harsh and unusual a manner , was a mystery which he could not penetrate . He soothed our hero , however , to the best of his power , and began to turn his thoughts on revenge for his insulted ...
... character , should have proceeded in so harsh and unusual a manner , was a mystery which he could not penetrate . He soothed our hero , however , to the best of his power , and began to turn his thoughts on revenge for his insulted ...
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