Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years SinceCassell, 1907 - 450 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered appeared arms army attended Bailie Macwheeble Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother called Callum Beg Captain Waverley castle CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan claymore Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean dress Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora Gaelic Gellatley gentleman glen Glennaquoich guest hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart Ivor Jacobites King Kingdom of Scotland lady Laird letter look Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid political portmanteau present Prince received regiment rendered replied returned Richard Waverley romantic Rose Bradwardine Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard sister soldiers Spontoon supposed thought Tully-Veolan Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig wild young
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Página 17 - The first was the extended and well-merited fame of Miss Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kindhearted neighbours of Ireland...
Página 177 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Página 17 - I felt that something might be attempted for my own country of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for Ireland — something which might introduce her natives to those of the sister kingdom in a more favourable light than they had been placed hitherto, and tend to procure sympathy for their virtues and indulgence for their foibles.
Página 98 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it ; Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. "Do the verses he sings...
Página 17 - Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been followed up.
Página 38 - ... less than that of Udolpho, of which the eastern wing had long been uninhabited, and the keys either lost, or consigned to the care of some aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle of the second volume, were doomed to guide the hero, or heroine, to the ruinous precincts? Would not the owl have shrieked and the cricket cried in my very title-page?
Página 421 - Myself was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half, furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat, and when the table was served the servants sat down with us; but the upper mess instead of porridge had a pullet, with some prunes in the broth...
Página 23 - Scott as much as owned himself the Author of Waverley to me in Murray's shop. I was talking to him about that novel, and lamented that its author had not carried back the story nearer to the time of the Revolution - Scott, entirely off his guard, replied, "Ay, I might have done so; but -
Página 16 - ... who were, like most veterans, easily induced to fight their battles over again, for the ^benefit of a willing listener like myself. It naturally occurred to me, that the ancient traditions and high spirit of a people, who, living in a rivilised age and country, retained so strong a tincture of manners belonging to an early period of society, must afford a subject favourable for romance, if it should not prove a curious tale marred in the telling.
Página 383 - In which a witch did dwell, in loathly weeds, And wilful want, all careless of her needs ; So choosing solitary to abide, Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds And hellish arts from people she might hide, And hurt far off, unknown whome'er she envied.