Waverley Novels, Volume 2John C. Nimmo, 1898 |
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Page ix
... person the materials necessary to weave another . Now , after writing a work of imagination one feels in nearly the same exhausted state as the spider . I believe no man now alive writes more rapidly than I do ( no great recommenda ...
... person the materials necessary to weave another . Now , after writing a work of imagination one feels in nearly the same exhausted state as the spider . I believe no man now alive writes more rapidly than I do ( no great recommenda ...
Page xxvii
... person , according to old John Mac - Kinlay's account , while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway , was benighted . With difficulty he found his way to a country seat , where , with the hos- pitality of the time and country , he ...
... person , according to old John Mac - Kinlay's account , while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway , was benighted . With difficulty he found his way to a country seat , where , with the hos- pitality of the time and country , he ...
Page xxxvii
... person of this description ought , from his knowl- edge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse ...
... person of this description ought , from his knowl- edge of the thousand ways in which human eyes could be deceived , to have been less than others subject to the fantasies of superstition . Perhaps the habitual use of those abstruse ...
Page xlii
... person than he cared to risk in such society . However , being naturally a bold , lively - spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing , and sat down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry ...
... person than he cared to risk in such society . However , being naturally a bold , lively - spirited man , he entered into the humour of the thing , and sat down to the feast , which consisted of all the varieties of game , poultry ...
Page 8
... person who might be the village schoolmaster , or perhaps the minis- ter's assistant ; his appearance was too shabby ... persons that are to be found frequently in rural situations . Fielding has described one class as " feras consumere ...
... person who might be the village schoolmaster , or perhaps the minis- ter's assistant ; his appearance was too shabby ... persons that are to be found frequently in rural situations . Fielding has described one class as " feras consumere ...
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