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... kind . The Author has also ventured to make some emenda- tions of a different character , which , without being such apparent deviations from the original stories as to disturb the reader's old associations , will , he thinks , add ...
... kind . The Author has also ventured to make some emenda- tions of a different character , which , without being such apparent deviations from the original stories as to disturb the reader's old associations , will , he thinks , add ...
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... kind , from the romances of chi- valry , and the ponderous folios of Cyrus and Cassandra , down to the most approved works of later times . I was plunged into this great ocean of reading without compass or pilot ; and unless when some ...
... kind , from the romances of chi- valry , and the ponderous folios of Cyrus and Cassandra , down to the most approved works of later times . I was plunged into this great ocean of reading without compass or pilot ; and unless when some ...
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... kind in prose . I had been a good deal in the Highlands at a time when they were much less accessible , and much less visited , than they have been of late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were ...
... kind in prose . I had been a good deal in the Highlands at a time when they were much less accessible , and much less visited , than they have been of late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were ...
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... kind - hearted neighbours of Ireland , that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union , than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been fol- lowed up . Without being so presumptuous as to hope ...
... kind - hearted neighbours of Ireland , that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union , than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been fol- lowed up . Without being so presumptuous as to hope ...
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... kind ; for , from the instant I perceived the extreme curiosity manifested on the subject , I felt a secret satisfaction in baffling it , for which , when its unimportance is considered , I do not well know how to account . My desire to ...
... kind ; for , from the instant I perceived the extreme curiosity manifested on the subject , I felt a secret satisfaction in baffling it , for which , when its unimportance is considered , I do not well know how to account . My desire to ...
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Página 93 - Amen, amen ! but come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight: Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine.
Página 66 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall on the book while he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were, suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory ; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect, (for he was...
Página lvii - 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, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 114 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it: Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. " Do the verses he sings," asked Waverley, " belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine ? " " I believe not,
Página lviii - You shall see him brought to bay; ' Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay! Tell them youth and mirth and glee Run a course as well as we; Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk, Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk; Think of this, and rise with day Gentle lords and ladies gay!
Página 31 - ... he had read, and stored in a memory of uncommon tenacity, much curious, though ill-arranged and miscellaneous information. In English literature he was master of Shakspeare 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 38 - was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess [those sitting above the salt-vat], instead of porridge, had a pullet with some prunes in the broth.