The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... rose in the army with a rapidity far sur passing the usual pace of unpatronised professional merit , although , to outward appearance , that was all he had to depend upon . This degenerate scion had committed a farther of- fence against ...
... rose in the army with a rapidity far sur passing the usual pace of unpatronised professional merit , although , to outward appearance , that was all he had to depend upon . This degenerate scion had committed a farther of- fence against ...
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... rose teep no holes here even for a Hanoverian n . And , what - eh ! any good news from over the water ? -- and how does the wor- f France ? Or perhaps you are more late- te it must be . Rome will do it at last- must light its candle at ...
... rose teep no holes here even for a Hanoverian n . And , what - eh ! any good news from over the water ? -- and how does the wor- f France ? Or perhaps you are more late- te it must be . Rome will do it at last- must light its candle at ...
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... rose to such huge height , and fou ported the turrets , with the ancient family motto , shed so luxuriantly , that their boughs complely Bewar the Bar , " cut under each hyperborean form . over - arched the broad road beneath . Beyond ...
... rose to such huge height , and fou ported the turrets , with the ancient family motto , shed so luxuriantly , that their boughs complely Bewar the Bar , " cut under each hyperborean form . over - arched the broad road beneath . Beyond ...
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... Rose's flower - bed , that he might be Such unanimous applause could not be extorted near to receive his honour's orders , if need were : hej but by acknowledged merit ; and Rose Bradwafdine was very fond of a garden , but had little ...
... Rose's flower - bed , that he might be Such unanimous applause could not be extorted near to receive his honour's orders , if need were : hej but by acknowledged merit ; and Rose Bradwafdine was very fond of a garden , but had little ...
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... Rose , tra voco , as Naso saith . - There is , besides , a clergy- and see that Alexander Saunderson looks out the old man of the true ( though suffering ) Episcopal church Chateau Margoux , which I sent from Bourdeaux to of Scotland ...
... Rose , tra voco , as Naso saith . - There is , besides , a clergy- and see that Alexander Saunderson looks out the old man of the true ( though suffering ) Episcopal church Chateau Margoux , which I sent from Bourdeaux to of Scotland ...
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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.