...reality. "My intention," Scott tells us, "is not to follow the steps of that inimitable author [Cervantes] in describing such total perversion of intellect as...communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring" (chap. 5). Thus Waverley, rather superficially, looks on his ill-considered journey into...

...these unavoidably communicated to his imagination," the narrator says his hero's story will illustrate "that more common aberration from sound judgment,...communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and coloring."59 Later, the narrator further describes Waverley's favorite state of mind as that "in which...

...windmills, Edward has developed what Scott terms 'that more common aberration from sound judgement, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their reality,...communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring' (18). Scott, who wrote in his Memoirs of 1808 that 'I really believe I have read as much...

...culture of the moment? In explaining why he is not about to write another Don Quixote, which shows "such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses," Scott specifies his own focus on "that more common aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends...

...might given the introductory chapters on Waverley's education, that this novel will imitate Cervantes: "My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable...communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring" (18). If the protagonist in this alternate tale of other days "apprehends occurrences indeed...

...may perhaps anticipate, in the following tale, an imitation of the romance of Cervantes. But he will do my prudence injustice in the supposition. My intention...senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgement, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their reality, but communicates to them a tincture...