Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy ManneringR. Cadell, 1842 |
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... late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were , like most veterans , easily induced to fight their battles over again , for the benefit of a willing listener like myself . It naturally occurred to me ...
... late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were , like most veterans , easily induced to fight their battles over again , for the benefit of a willing listener like myself . It naturally occurred to me ...
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... late Mr. Joseph Strutt , distinguished as an artist and an antiquary , amongst which was an unfinished romance , entitled " Queen - Hoo - Hall . " The scene of the tale was laid in the reign of Henry VI . , and the work was written to ...
... late Mr. Joseph Strutt , distinguished as an artist and an antiquary , amongst which was an unfinished romance , entitled " Queen - Hoo - Hall . " The scene of the tale was laid in the reign of Henry VI . , and the work was written to ...
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... late Thomas Scott , Esq . , of the 70th Regiment , then stationed in Canada . Those who remember that gentleman will readily grant , that , with general talents at least equal to those of his elder brother , he added a power of social ...
... late Thomas Scott , Esq . , of the 70th Regiment , then stationed in Canada . Those who remember that gentleman will readily grant , that , with general talents at least equal to those of his elder brother , he added a power of social ...
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... late general fast ? -did you not encourage us to hope that the Lord of Hosts would go forth with our armies , and that our enemies , who blasphemed him , should be put to shame ? " " It may please a kind father to chasten even his ...
... late general fast ? -did you not encourage us to hope that the Lord of Hosts would go forth with our armies , and that our enemies , who blasphemed him , should be put to shame ? " " It may please a kind father to chasten even his ...
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... late dear wife's sister , the collection of which is the object of my voyage . 8th November - wind still stormy and adverse — a horrid disaster nearly happened - my dear child washed overboard as the vessel lurched to leeward ...
... late dear wife's sister , the collection of which is the object of my voyage . 8th November - wind still stormy and adverse — a horrid disaster nearly happened - my dear child washed overboard as the vessel lurched to leeward ...
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.