Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ...E.T. Scott, 1821 |
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... perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading , especially un- der such opportunities of gratifying it . I believe one reason why such numerous instances of erudition oc- cur among the lower ranks is , that with ...
... perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading , especially un- der such opportunities of gratifying it . I believe one reason why such numerous instances of erudition oc- cur among the lower ranks is , that with ...
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... perhaps even guilt itself does not impose upon some minds so keen a sense of shame and remorse as a modest , sensitive , and inexperienced youth feels from the consciousness of having neglected etiquette , or excited ridicule . Where we ...
... perhaps even guilt itself does not impose upon some minds so keen a sense of shame and remorse as a modest , sensitive , and inexperienced youth feels from the consciousness of having neglected etiquette , or excited ridicule . Where we ...
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... perhaps served as an apology to himself , he used to pursue one of these long avenues , which after an as- cending sweep of four miles , gradually narrowed into a rude and contracted path through the cliffy and wooded pass called ...
... perhaps served as an apology to himself , he used to pursue one of these long avenues , which after an as- cending sweep of four miles , gradually narrowed into a rude and contracted path through the cliffy and wooded pass called ...
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... perhaps these verses intimate less decidedly , the transient idea of Miss Cecelia Stubbs passed from Captain Waverley's heart amid the tur- moils which his new destinies excited . She appeared indeed in full splendour in her father's ...
... perhaps these verses intimate less decidedly , the transient idea of Miss Cecelia Stubbs passed from Captain Waverley's heart amid the tur- moils which his new destinies excited . She appeared indeed in full splendour in her father's ...
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... perhaps some others . of the party . He was , besides , a special admirer of the old Patavinian , and though probably his own zeal might not have carried him such extravagant lengths , even to recover the edition of Sweynheim and Pan ...
... perhaps some others . of the party . He was , besides , a special admirer of the old Patavinian , and though probably his own zeal might not have carried him such extravagant lengths , even to recover the edition of Sweynheim and Pan ...
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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.