Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ...E.T. Scott, 1821 |
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... Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this part of my subject , I must be understood to have re- solved to avoid them as much as possible , by throw- ing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ...
... Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this part of my subject , I must be understood to have re- solved to avoid them as much as possible , by throw- ing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ...
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... considering what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey . With a desire of amusement , there- fore , which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge , young Waverley drove through the sea of books ...
... considering what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey . With a desire of amusement , there- fore , which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge , young Waverley drove through the sea of books ...
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... sons ; these were points for Mr. Waverley to consider . This he could himself say , that he knew his majesty had such a just sense of Mr. Richard Waverley's merits that if his son adopted the army for a few WAVERLEY . 31.
... sons ; these were points for Mr. Waverley to consider . This he could himself say , that he knew his majesty had such a just sense of Mr. Richard Waverley's merits that if his son adopted the army for a few WAVERLEY . 31.
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... considering his youth and the profession of arms which he had just adopted , was capable of being represented much to his prejudice . The baron justified himself at greater length than I choose to report . He urged that the quarrel was ...
... considering his youth and the profession of arms which he had just adopted , was capable of being represented much to his prejudice . The baron justified himself at greater length than I choose to report . He urged that the quarrel was ...
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... consider master as a sort of affront , only that you are an En- But the Lowlanders glishman , and know no better . call him , like other gentlemen , by the name of his estate , Glennaquoich ; and the Highlanders call him Vich Ian Vohr ...
... consider master as a sort of affront , only that you are an En- But the Lowlanders glishman , and know no better . call him , like other gentlemen , by the name of his estate , Glennaquoich ; and the Highlanders call him Vich Ian Vohr ...
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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.