Waverley; or 'Tis sixty years since, Volumen313Ward, Lock, & Company, 1882 - 418 páginas |
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... gave me hope that I might in time become free of the craft of Romance- writing , and be esteemed a tolerable workman . In the year 1807-8 , I undertook , at the request of John Murray , Esq . , of Albemarle Street , to arrange for ...
... gave me hope that I might in time become free of the craft of Romance- writing , and be esteemed a tolerable workman . In the year 1807-8 , I undertook , at the request of John Murray , Esq . , of Albemarle Street , to arrange for ...
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... gave an interest which the powers of the author might have otherwise failed to attain for them . And though I have been in other instances a sinner in this sort , I do not recollect any of these novels , in which I have transgressed so ...
... gave an interest which the powers of the author might have otherwise failed to attain for them . And though I have been in other instances a sinner in this sort , I do not recollect any of these novels , in which I have transgressed so ...
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... gave a colour to the general report of my brother being interested in these works ; and in particular that it might derive strength from my having occasion to remit to him , in consequence of certain family transactions , some ...
... gave a colour to the general report of my brother being interested in these works ; and in particular that it might derive strength from my having occasion to remit to him , in consequence of certain family transactions , some ...
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... gave to his customer . By the command of so good a merchant , he brought horses to the same spot more than once ; the purchaser only stipu- lating that he should always come by night , and alone . I do not know whether it was from mere ...
... gave to his customer . By the command of so good a merchant , he brought horses to the same spot more than once ; the purchaser only stipu- lating that he should always come by night , and alone . I do not know whether it was from mere ...
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... gave them to be led by the jester , and we wandered in quest of our company , whom it would seem the sport had led in a different direction . At length , passing through the thicket where you found us , I was surprised by a crossbow ...
... gave them to be led by the jester , and we wandered in quest of our company , whom it would seem the sport had led in a different direction . At length , passing through the thicket where you found us , I was surprised by a crossbow ...
Términos y frases comunes
A. B. FROST ancient answered appeared arms army attended Author Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine Beeton's BRET HARTE broadsword brother caliga called Captain Waverley Castle CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan cloth gilt Colonel Talbot command dear Ditto Donald Bean Lean dress Edinburgh Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich guest hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stewart Jacobites Lady Laird letter look Lord 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 portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned romance Salisbury Square Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard sister soldiers spirit Spontoon sword thought tion Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig words young
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Página 32 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming; And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay 'Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 401 - Thf re is no European nation, which, within the course of half a century, or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons,— the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs, long continued to pride themselves...
Página 7 - 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...
Página 66 - ... read, and stored in a memory of uncommon tenacity, much curious, though ill-arranged and miscellaneous information. In English literature he was master of Shakespeare and Milton ; of our earlier dramatic authors ; of many picturesque and interesting passages from our old historical chronicles ; and was particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction...
Página 171 - He observed great ceremony in approaching Edward ; and though our hero was writhing with pain, would not proceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun.
Página 32 - WAKEN, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day, All the jolly chase is here, With hawk, and horse, and hunting-spear ! Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they,
Página 5 - I was, in kindness and pity, which was perhaps erroneous, hewever natural, permitted to select my subjects of study at my own pleasure, upon the same principle that the humours of children are indulged to keep them out of mischief. As my taste and appetite were gratified in nothing else, I indemnified myself by becoming a glutton of books. Accordingly, I believe I read almost all the romances, old plays, and epic poetry, in that formidable collection...
Página 126 - It seemed like a dream to Waverley that these deeds of violence should be familiar to men's minds, and currently talked of, as falling within the common order of things, and happening daily in the immediate vicinity, without his having crossed the seas, and while he was yet in the otherwise well-ordered island of Great Britain...