Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy ManneringR. Cadell, 1842 |
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... asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed , I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ; namely , that the mental organization of the Novelist must be characterised , to ...
... asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed , I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ; namely , that the mental organization of the Novelist must be characterised , to ...
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... asked for to accomplish a discovery of what I desired to conceal . The real truth is , that I never expected or hoped to disguise my connexion with these Novels from any one who lived on terms of intimacy with me . The number of coin ...
... asked for to accomplish a discovery of what I desired to conceal . The real truth is , that I never expected or hoped to disguise my connexion with these Novels from any one who lived on terms of intimacy with me . The number of coin ...
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... asked the price of his horses , and began to chaffer with him on the subject . To Canobie Dick , for so shall we call our Border dealer , a chap was a chap , and he would have sold a horse to the devil himself , without minding his ...
... asked the price of his horses , and began to chaffer with him on the subject . To Canobie Dick , for so shall we call our Border dealer , a chap was a chap , and he would have sold a horse to the devil himself , without minding his ...
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... asked father Adam , as they journeyed to Camelot , an high , great , and doubtful question , Adam , Adam , why eatedst thou the apple without paring ? ' " * " * This tirade of gibberish is literally taken or selected from a mock ...
... asked father Adam , as they journeyed to Camelot , an high , great , and doubtful question , Adam , Adam , why eatedst thou the apple without paring ? ' " * " * This tirade of gibberish is literally taken or selected from a mock ...
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... asked permission to retire from the service of a sovereign who did not know how to spare a vanquished enemy . The Duke was struck , and even affected . He bade the Colonel take up his commission , and granted the protection he required ...
... asked permission to retire from the service of a sovereign who did not know how to spare a vanquished enemy . The Duke was struck , and even affected . He bade the Colonel take up his commission , and granted the protection he required ...
Términos y frases comunes
answered appearance arms attended auld Bailie Baron of Bradwardine broadsword Brown called Callum Captain Waverley castle Chapter character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Mannering Colonel Talbot command dear deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door Edinburgh Edward Ellangowan Evan eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora followed frae gentleman gipsy Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart Jacobite Julia lady Laird letter Liddesdale look Lord Lucy Mac-Morlan Macwheeble maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning never night observed occasion party person Pleydell poor portmanteau Prince prisoner received recollection regiment rendered replied Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard Sir Robert Spontoon stranger supposed thought Tully-Veolan turned voice Waverley-Honour Waverley's weel Whig wish Woodbourne young Hazlewood younker
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Página 398 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Página 511 - As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet...
Página 29 - Springlets in the dawn are steaming, 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 182 - ... pitchfork, her cheeks flushed with a scarlet red where they were not smutted with soot and lampblack, jostled through the crowd, and brandishing high a child of two years old, which she danced in her arms, without regard to its screams of terror, sang forth, with all her might " Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling, Charlie is my darling, The young Chevalier." " D'ye hear what's come ower ye now...
Página 170 - 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 55 - With a desire of amusement therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge, young Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder. Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. I believe one reason why such numerous instances of erudition occur among the lower...
Página 10 - I had a distinguished character for that talent, at a time when the applause of my companions was iny recompense for the disgraces and punishments which the future romance-writer incurred for being idle himself, and keeping others idle, during hours that should have been employed on our tasks. The chief enjoyment of my holidays was to escape with a chosen friend, who had the same taste with myself, and alternately to recite to each other such wild adventures as we were able to devise.
Página 505 - Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door. Nor kind mate, bound, by holy vow, To bless a good man's store. Noon lulls us in a gloomy den, And night is grown our day; Uprouse ye, then, my merry men! And use it as ye may.
Página 146 - 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.
Página 289 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.