Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy ManneringR. Cadell, 1842 |
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... carried back the story nearer to the time of the Revolution - Scott , entirely off his guard , replied , Ay , I might have done so ; but there he stopped . It was in vain to attempt to correct himself ; he looked con- fused , and ...
... carried back the story nearer to the time of the Revolution - Scott , entirely off his guard , replied , Ay , I might have done so ; but there he stopped . It was in vain to attempt to correct himself ; he looked con- fused , and ...
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... carried his helmet and lance , and led his battle - horse , a noble steed , richly caparisoned . A page and four yeomen , bearing bows and quivers , short swords , and targets of a span breadth , completed his equipage , which , though ...
... carried his helmet and lance , and led his battle - horse , a noble steed , richly caparisoned . A page and four yeomen , bearing bows and quivers , short swords , and targets of a span breadth , completed his equipage , which , though ...
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... carried him on board the frigate . Perhaps you will blame me for men- tioning this circumstance ; but consider , my dear cousin , this man saved my life , and his fate , even when my own and my father's were in the balance , could not ...
... carried him on board the frigate . Perhaps you will blame me for men- tioning this circumstance ; but consider , my dear cousin , this man saved my life , and his fate , even when my own and my father's were in the balance , could not ...
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... carrying a bride at home to dwell ? And away to Tewin , away , away ! The quintain was set , and the garlands were made ; — ' Tis pity old customs should ever decay ; And wo be to him that was horsed on a jade , For he carried no credit ...
... carrying a bride at home to dwell ? And away to Tewin , away , away ! The quintain was set , and the garlands were made ; — ' Tis pity old customs should ever decay ; And wo be to him that was horsed on a jade , For he carried no credit ...
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... carry to Canada , and involve in adventures with the natives and colonists of that country . Perhaps the youthful gene- rosity of the lad will not seem so great in the eyes of others , as to those whom it was the means of screening from ...
... carry to Canada , and involve in adventures with the natives and colonists of that country . Perhaps the youthful gene- rosity of the lad will not seem so great in the eyes of others , as to those whom it was the means of screening from ...
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
Pasajes populares
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.