Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 632 páginas |
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... dangerous . For several weeks I was confined strictly to my bed , during which time I was not allowed to speak above a whisper , to eat more than a spoonful or two of boiled rice , or to have more covering than one thin counterpane ...
... dangerous . For several weeks I was confined strictly to my bed , during which time I was not allowed to speak above a whisper , to eat more than a spoonful or two of boiled rice , or to have more covering than one thin counterpane ...
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... dangerous intercourse for an author to be dwelling continually among those who make his writings a frequent and familiar subject of conversation , but who must necessarily be partial judges of works composed in their own society . The ...
... dangerous intercourse for an author to be dwelling continually among those who make his writings a frequent and familiar subject of conversation , but who must necessarily be partial judges of works composed in their own society . The ...
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... dangers and hardships of the New World , with the same dauntless spirit which he had displayed when a boy in his native country . Mr Scott would probably have been highly successful , being familiarly acquainted with the manners of the ...
... dangers and hardships of the New World , with the same dauntless spirit which he had displayed when a boy in his native country . Mr Scott would probably have been highly successful , being familiarly acquainted with the manners of the ...
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Walter Scott. versed all around , as if they ever sought some danger to oppose , some plunder to seize , or some insult to revenge . The latter seemed to be his present object , for , regardless of the dignified presence of Lord Lacy ...
Walter Scott. versed all around , as if they ever sought some danger to oppose , some plunder to seize , or some insult to revenge . The latter seemed to be his present object , for , regardless of the dignified presence of Lord Lacy ...
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... danger before we have arms in our hands to resist it . Although admitting of much poetical ornament , it is clear that this legend would have formed but an unhappy foundation for a prose story , and must have degenerated into a mere ...
... danger before we have arms in our hands to resist it . Although admitting of much poetical ornament , it is clear that this legend would have formed but an unhappy foundation for a prose story , and must have degenerated into a mere ...
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