Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry's Foreign Library, 1831 - 632 páginas |
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... events , would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the * See Appendix , No. II . tale which I had actually commenced ; and accident at 14 GENERAL PREFACE .
... events , would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , returned more than once to the * See Appendix , No. II . tale which I had actually commenced ; and accident at 14 GENERAL PREFACE .
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... returning from a pleasure voyage , I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity , and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the author . The knowledge that I had the public appro- bation , was like having the property of a ...
... returning from a pleasure voyage , I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity , and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the author . The knowledge that I had the public appro- bation , was like having the property of a ...
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... returned an equivoca- ting answer , —or , finally , must have stoutly and boldly denied the fact . The first was a sacrifice which I conceive no one had a right to force from me , since I The alternative of alone was concerned in the ...
... returned an equivoca- ting answer , —or , finally , must have stoutly and boldly denied the fact . The first was a sacrifice which I conceive no one had a right to force from me , since I The alternative of alone was concerned in the ...
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... returned . " The knight endeavoured to expostulate with the fugitives , who were chiefly aged men , women , and children ; but their dread of the English name accelerated their flight , and in a few minutes , excepting the knight and ...
... returned . " The knight endeavoured to expostulate with the fugitives , who were chiefly aged men , women , and children ; but their dread of the English name accelerated their flight , and in a few minutes , excepting the knight and ...
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... returned to the castle . The distance was , however , considerable , and , before reaching it , they had another alarm . The prickers , who rode foremost in the troop , halted , and announced to the Lord Boteler , that they perceived ...
... returned to the castle . The distance was , however , considerable , and , before reaching it , they had another alarm . The prickers , who rode foremost in the troop , halted , and announced to the Lord Boteler , that they perceived ...
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