Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since, Volumen1Wells and Lilly, and Bradford and Read [Wells and Lilly, printers], 1815 |
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... Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this part of my subject , I must be understood to have resolved to avoid them as much as possible , by throwing 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 resolved to avoid them as much as possible , by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ...
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... consider as the most important part of my plan , although I am sensible how short these will fall of their aim , if I shall be found unable to mix them with amusement , -a task not quite so easy in this critical generation as it was ...
... consider as the most important part of my plan , although I am sensible how short these will fall of their aim , if I shall be found unable to mix them with amusement , -a task not quite so easy in this critical generation as it was ...
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... 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 adopt- ed the army for a few years , a troop , he believed , might be reckoned upon in one of the ...
... 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 adopt- ed the army for a few years , a troop , he believed , might be reckoned upon in one of the ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... considering the friendship and alliances that have been between your houses and forbears of old ; and he prays you that the cloud may pass away , and that things may be as they have been heretofore between the clan Ivor and the house of ...
... considering the friendship and alliances that have been between your houses and forbears of old ; and he prays you that the cloud may pass away , and that things may be as they have been heretofore between the clan Ivor and the house of ...
Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered appeared arms attended Baillie Macwheeble Balma Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine brother called Captain Waverley cause CHAPTER character chief Chieftain clan command dear Donald Bean Lean dress Edward Waverley English Evan Dhu expressed extempo eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora Gaelic Gellatly gentleman glen Glennaquoich guest hand heard heraldry hero Highland honour horse house of Stuart Ivor Jacobites Killancureit King lady Laird letter Little Britain louis-d'or low country Lowland Mac-Murrough Major Melville manner ment mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning Morton natural never observed occasion party passed person Perthshire plaid political Rachael racter rard received regiment replied respect Richard Waverley romantic Rose Scotland Scottish seemed shewed sion Sir Eve Sir Everard sister song sword thought tion Tully-Veolan Ursa Major verley Vich Ian Vohr Waver Waverley-Honour Waverley's whig wild wish young youth
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Página 244 - 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 7 - Upon these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws casts a necessary colouring ; but the bearings, to use the language of heraldry, remain the same, though the tincture may be not only different, but opposed in strong contradistinction.
Página 190 - The borders of this romantic reservoir corresponded in beauty ; but it was beauty of a stern and commanding cast, as if in the act of expanding into grandeur. Mossy banks of turf were broken and interrupted by huge fragments of rock, and decorated with trees and shrubs, some of which had been planted under the direction of Flora, but so cautiously, that they added to the grace, without diminishing the romantic wildness of the scene.
Página 7 - ... 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 195 - 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 line and the charge.
Página 203 - 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.
Página 42 - 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 7 - But the deep-ruling impulse is the same in both cases ; and the proud peer who can now only ruin his neighbour according to law, by protracted suits, is the genuine descendant of the baron who wrapped the castle of his competitor in flames, and knocked him on the head as he endeavoured to escape from the conflagration. It is from the great book of Nature, the same through a thousand editions, whether of black-letter, or wire-wove and hot-pressed, that I have venturously essayed to read a chapter...
Página 42 - I do not invite my fair readers, whose sex and impatience give them the greatest right to complain of these circumstances, into 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.
Página 253 - Distance, in truth, produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective. Objects are softened, and rounded, and rendered doubly graceful; the harsher and more ordinary points of character are mellowed down, and those by which it is remembered are the more striking outlines that mark sublimity, grace, or beauty.