Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 632 páginas |
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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 commenced ; and accident at. * See Appendix ...
... 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 commenced ; and accident at. * See Appendix ...
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... Highland cateran Bean Lean , are managed without much skill . It suited best , however , the road I wanted to travel , and permitted me to introduce some descriptions of scenery and manners , to which the reality gave an interest which ...
... Highland cateran Bean Lean , are managed without much skill . It suited best , however , the road I wanted to travel , and permitted me to introduce some descriptions of scenery and manners , to which the reality gave an interest which ...
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... Highlands , published about 1726 , will find instances of such atro- cious characters which fell under the writer's own ob- servation , though it would be most unjust to consider such villains as representatives of the Highlanders of ...
... Highlands , published about 1726 , will find instances of such atro- cious characters which fell under the writer's own ob- servation , though it would be most unjust to consider such villains as representatives of the Highlanders of ...
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... Highland insurgents ; for which many traditions , and particularly one respecting the Knight of the Mirror , may be quoted as good evidence . * A woe be to such hot zeal , To smite. * A homely metrical narrative of the events of the ...
... Highland insurgents ; for which many traditions , and particularly one respecting the Knight of the Mirror , may be quoted as good evidence . * A woe be to such hot zeal , To smite. * A homely metrical narrative of the events of the ...
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... Highland Rogues , With Lowland men make shangs a brogs , Sup kail and brose , and fling the cogs Out at the door ... Highlands they were so rude , As leave them neither clothes nor food , Then burnt their houses to conclude ...
... Highland Rogues , With Lowland men make shangs a brogs , Sup kail and brose , and fling the cogs Out at the door ... Highlands they were so rude , As leave them neither clothes nor food , Then burnt their houses to conclude ...
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