Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 632 páginas |
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... disposition to keep his word , that having in- troduced himself in the third person singular , he pro- ceeds in the second paragraph to make use of the first . But it appears to him that the seeming modesty , GENERAL PREFACE. ...
... disposition to keep his word , that having in- troduced himself in the third person singular , he pro- ceeds in the second paragraph to make use of the first . But it appears to him that the seeming modesty , GENERAL PREFACE. ...
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... person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the Cor- rector . I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out iny first achievements as a tale - teller - but I believe some of ...
... person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the Cor- rector . I must refer to a very early period of my life , were I to point out iny first achievements as a tale - teller - but I believe some of ...
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... person also , as a successful author in another department of literature , I might have been charged with too frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as impassible to the critic as the ...
... person also , as a successful author in another department of literature , I might have been charged with too frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as impassible to the critic as the ...
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... person put upon trial , to refuse giving my own evidence to my own conviction , and flatly to deny all that could not be proved against me . At the same time , I usually qualified my denial by stating , that , had I been the author of ...
... person put upon trial , to refuse giving my own evidence to my own conviction , and flatly to deny all that could not be proved against me . At the same time , I usually qualified my denial by stating , that , had I been the author of ...
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... persons , who might perhaps imagine , that the readiest mode of forcing the author to disclose himself , was ... person whom it principally regarded ; as , among all the rumours that were current , there was only one , and that ...
... persons , who might perhaps imagine , that the readiest mode of forcing the author to disclose himself , was ... person whom it principally regarded ; as , among all the rumours that were current , there was only one , and that ...
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ancient answered appeared arms army attended Bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother called Callum Beg Captain Waverley Castle CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Talbot command danger dear Donald Bean Lean Edinburgh Emma Darcy English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flora Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stewart Jacobites Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Maccombich Macwheeble Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never Nicholas Amhurst night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid poor portmanteau present Prince prisoner racter received regiment rendered replied romance Rose Bradwardine scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon sword thought tion Tully-Veolan verley Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig young