Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ...E.T. Scott, 1821 |
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... answer was returned , though the peal resounded through a number of apartments , and was echoed from the court - yard walls without the house , startling the pigeons from the venerable rotunda which they occupied , and alarming anew ...
... answer was returned , though the peal resounded through a number of apartments , and was echoed from the court - yard walls without the house , startling the pigeons from the venerable rotunda which they occupied , and alarming anew ...
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... answer to any constant question , requested to know whether Mr. Bradwardine were at home , or where he could find any of the domestics . The questioned party replied , and like the witch of Thalaba , " still his speech was song- " The ...
... answer to any constant question , requested to know whether Mr. Bradwardine were at home , or where he could find any of the domestics . The questioned party replied , and like the witch of Thalaba , " still his speech was song- " The ...
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Walter Scott. ing his queries , received a rapid answer , in which , from the haste and the peculiarity of the dialect , the word " butler " was alone intelligible . Waverley then requested to see the butler ; upon which the fellow ...
Walter Scott. ing his queries , received a rapid answer , in which , from the haste and the peculiarity of the dialect , the word " butler " was alone intelligible . Waverley then requested to see the butler ; upon which the fellow ...
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... answered with a long pinch of snuff and a glance of infinite con- tempt . But those noble allies , the bear and the hen , had emancipated the young laird from the habitual re- verence in which he held Bradwardine at other times . He ...
... answered with a long pinch of snuff and a glance of infinite con- tempt . But those noble allies , the bear and the hen , had emancipated the young laird from the habitual re- verence in which he held Bradwardine at other times . He ...
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... answered at random one or two observations which she ventured to make upon ordinary topics ; so that feeling herself almost re- pulsed in her efforts at entertaining him , and secretly wondering that a scarlet coat should cover no ...
... answered at random one or two observations which she ventured to make upon ordinary topics ; so that feeling herself almost re- pulsed in her efforts at entertaining him , and secretly wondering that a scarlet coat should cover no ...
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amusement ancient answered appeared arms attended Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine brother Cairnvreckan called Captain Waverley castle cause CHAPTER character chief chieftain clan command curiosity dear distance Donald Bean Lean dress Edward Waverley English Erastian Evan Dhu expressed father favourable feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora frae Gaelic gentleman Gilfillan glen Glennaquoich guest hand head heard heart hero Highland honour horse house of Stuart Ivor Jacobites king lady laird letter Little Britain look louis-d'or low country Lowland Major Melville manner military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning Morton natural never observed occasion officer party passed person plaid political portmanteau present racter received regiment replied Richard Waverley romantic Rose Roundheads Scotland Scottish seemed sion Sir Everard sister soldier song Stirling Stirling Castle sword thought tion Tully-Veolan verley Vich Ian Vohr village Waver Waverley-Honour Waverley's whig wild wish young youth
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Página 210 - 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 168 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake ! 'Tis the bugle — but not for the chase is the call ; Tis the pibroch's shrill summons — but not to the hall. 'Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death, When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath ; They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe, To the march and the muster, the...
Página 6 - ... those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the...
Página 154 - And just began to bloom his yellow beard. "Whene'er he spoke, his voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet, with a silver sound : A laurel wreath'd his temples, fresh and green ; And myrtle sprigs, the marks of love, were mix'd between.
Página 38 - ... a flying chariot drawn by hippogriffs, or moved by enchantment. Mine is a humble English post-chaise, drawn upon four wheels, and keeping his Majesty's highway. Such as dislike the vehicle may leave it at the next halt, and wait for the conveyance of Prince Hussein's tapestry, or Malek the Weaver's flying sentry-box.
Página 4 - Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and darklanterns? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a 'Sentimental Tale...
Página 165 - Highland song would suffer still more from my imperfect translation, were 1 to introduce it without its own wild and appropriate accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language of my country, the seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. He who woos her must love the barren rock more than the fertile valley, and the solitude of the desert better than the festivity of the hall.
Página 175 - Mongst craggy cliffs and thunder-battered hills, Hares, hinds, bucks, roes, are chased by men and dogs, Where two hours' hunting fourscore fat deer kills. Lowland, your sports are low as is your seat ; The Highland games and minds are high and great.