Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 632 páginas |
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... respects abuse the license permitted me . Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of fiction brought with it some degree of satiety , and I began , by degrees , to seek in histories , memoirs , voyages and travels , and the ...
... respects abuse the license permitted me . Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of fiction brought with it some degree of satiety , and I began , by degrees , to seek in histories , memoirs , voyages and travels , and the ...
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... frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as impassible to the critic as the Ghost of Hamlet to the partisan of Marcellus . Perhaps the curiosity of the public 18 GENERAL PREFACE .
... frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as impassible to the critic as the Ghost of Hamlet to the partisan of Marcellus . Perhaps the curiosity of the public 18 GENERAL PREFACE .
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... respect rank lower than its predecessors . I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege , as one reason of my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours . It is in ...
... respect rank lower than its predecessors . I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation , should I allege , as one reason of my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours . It is in ...
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... respecting the Edition is the business of the publishers , not of the author ; and here , therefore , the latter has accomplished his task of Intro- duction and explanation . If , like a spoiled child , he has sometimes abused or ...
... respecting the Edition is the business of the publishers , not of the author ; and here , therefore , the latter has accomplished his task of Intro- duction and explanation . If , like a spoiled child , he has sometimes abused or ...
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... respecting their twelfth Imaum demonstrates . The Now , it chanced many years since , that there lived on the Borders a jolly , rattling horse - cowper , who was remarkable for a reckless and fearless temper , which made him much ...
... respecting their twelfth Imaum demonstrates . The Now , it chanced many years since , that there lived on the Borders a jolly , rattling horse - cowper , who was remarkable for a reckless and fearless temper , which made him much ...
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