Waverley Novels, Volume 2John C. Nimmo, 1898 |
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... , MARY , MICHAEL , ALICE , MALCOLM , MARGARET , AND HERBERT , GREAT - GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT - GREAT - GRANDCHILDREN OF THE AUTHOR TO The king's Most Gracious Majesty . SIRE , The THIS EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, ...
... , MARY , MICHAEL , ALICE , MALCOLM , MARGARET , AND HERBERT , GREAT - GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT - GREAT - GRANDCHILDREN OF THE AUTHOR TO The king's Most Gracious Majesty . SIRE , The THIS EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, ...
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Walter Scott. TO The king's Most Gracious Majesty . SIRE , The Author of this Collection of Works of Fiction would not have presumed to solicit for them your Majesty's august patron- age , were it not that the perusal has been supposed ...
Walter Scott. TO The king's Most Gracious Majesty . SIRE , The Author of this Collection of Works of Fiction would not have presumed to solicit for them your Majesty's august patron- age , were it not that the perusal has been supposed ...
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... author who has tri- umphed in his first romance is a doubtful and perilous adventure . The writer is apt to become self - conscious , to remember the advice of his critics , a fatal error , - and to tremble before the shadow of his own ...
... author who has tri- umphed in his first romance is a doubtful and perilous adventure . The writer is apt to become self - conscious , to remember the advice of his critics , a fatal error , - and to tremble before the shadow of his own ...
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... Author often did not see his own way out of the wood . But there is little harm in that . " If I do not know what is coming next , " a modern novelist has remarked , " how can the public know ? " Curiosity , at least , is likely to be ...
... Author often did not see his own way out of the wood . But there is little harm in that . " If I do not know what is coming next , " a modern novelist has remarked , " how can the public know ? " Curiosity , at least , is likely to be ...
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... author of a cant- ing " Letter to the Author of ' Waverley ' " ( Hatchards , London , 1820 ) . 3 In Lady Napier's collection of letters . ried a Mr. Routledge , the son of a yeoman GUY MANNERING . xiii.
... author of a cant- ing " Letter to the Author of ' Waverley ' " ( Hatchards , London , 1820 ) . 3 In Lady Napier's collection of letters . ried a Mr. Routledge , the son of a yeoman GUY MANNERING . xiii.
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