The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... Walter Scott. " CONTENTS OF VOLUME IL or SCOTT'S WORKS , BEING VOL . I. OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS . WAVERLEY , GUY MANNERING , ANTIQUARY , ROB ROY , BLACK DWARF , OLD MORTALITY . 7 ORDER OF ARRANGEMENT OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS . e.
... Walter Scott. " CONTENTS OF VOLUME IL or SCOTT'S WORKS , BEING VOL . I. OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS . WAVERLEY , GUY MANNERING , ANTIQUARY , ROB ROY , BLACK DWARF , OLD MORTALITY . 7 ORDER OF ARRANGEMENT OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS . e.
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... MANNERING . ANTIQUARY . ROB ROY . BLACK DWARF . OLD MORTALITY . HEART OF MID - LOTHIAN FRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR LEGEND OF MONTROSE IVANHOE . THE MONASTERY . THE ABBOT .. KENILWORTH . THE PIRATE . VOL . II . A FORTUNES OF NIGEL . PEVERIL OF ...
... MANNERING . ANTIQUARY . ROB ROY . BLACK DWARF . OLD MORTALITY . HEART OF MID - LOTHIAN FRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR LEGEND OF MONTROSE IVANHOE . THE MONASTERY . THE ABBOT .. KENILWORTH . THE PIRATE . VOL . II . A FORTUNES OF NIGEL . PEVERIL OF ...
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... with a Dedication ; THESE VOLUMES BEING RESPECTFULLY LNSCRIBED TO OUR SCOTTISH ADDISON , HENRY MACKENZIE , BY AN UNKNOWN ADMIRER OF HIS GENIUS . END OF WAVERLEY GUY MANNERING ; VOL . JI . S OR , 44 [ CHAP . LXXII WAVERLEY .
... with a Dedication ; THESE VOLUMES BEING RESPECTFULLY LNSCRIBED TO OUR SCOTTISH ADDISON , HENRY MACKENZIE , BY AN UNKNOWN ADMIRER OF HIS GENIUS . END OF WAVERLEY GUY MANNERING ; VOL . JI . S OR , 44 [ CHAP . LXXII WAVERLEY .
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... that words and signs have power O'er sprites in planetary hour ; But scarce I praise their venturous part , Who tamper with such dangerous art . Lay of the Last Minstrel 15 1 INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING . " Your knowledge ,
... that words and signs have power O'er sprites in planetary hour ; But scarce I praise their venturous part , Who tamper with such dangerous art . Lay of the Last Minstrel 15 1 INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING . " Your knowledge ,
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With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions Walter Scott. 1 INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING . " Your knowledge , then.
With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions Walter Scott. 1 INTRODUCTION TO GUY MANNERING . " Your knowledge , then.
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Page 143 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English or adopt their customs, long...
Page 110 - And he will refit the old library in the most exquisite Gothic taste, and garnish its shelves with the rarest and most valuable volumes; and he will draw plans and landscapes, and write verses, and rear temples, and dig grottoes; and he will stand in a clear summer night in the colonnade before the hall, and gaze on the deer as they stray in the moonlight, or lie shadowed by the boughs of the huge old fantastic oaks; and he will repeat verses to his beautiful wife, who will hang upon his arm; —...
Page 21 - ... became visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt on shore. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, began to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink in deeper furrows, forming waves that rose high in foam upon the breakers, or burst upon the beach with a sound resembling distant thunder. Appalled by this sudden change of weather, Miss Wardour drew close to her father, and held his arm fast.
Page 17 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.