The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... Waverley was doubtful , was natural enough , it is more difficult , it may be thought , to account for the same desire for secrecy during the subsequent editions , to the amount of betwixt eleven and twelve thousand copies , which ...
... Waverley was doubtful , was natural enough , it is more difficult , it may be thought , to account for the same desire for secrecy during the subsequent editions , to the amount of betwixt eleven and twelve thousand copies , which ...
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... WAVERLEY , an uncontaminated name , of an old ballad , nor reduced to the primitive naked- bearing with its sound little of good or evil , except - ness of a modem fashionable at a rout . From this ing what the reader shall hereafter be ...
... WAVERLEY , an uncontaminated name , of an old ballad , nor reduced to the primitive naked- bearing with its sound little of good or evil , except - ness of a modem fashionable at a rout . From this ing what the reader shall hereafter be ...
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... WAVERLEY - HONOUR . - A RETROSPECT . learned from the public News - Letter , first , that Richard Waverley , Esquire , was returned for the ministerial borough of Barterfaith ; next , that Rich- ard Waverley , Esquire , had taken a ...
... WAVERLEY - HONOUR . - A RETROSPECT . learned from the public News - Letter , first , that Richard Waverley , Esquire , was returned for the ministerial borough of Barterfaith ; next , that Rich- ard Waverley , Esquire , had taken a ...
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... Waverley , failing those of his eldest of the house of Waverley . With a grace and delica- son Wilfred , of whom Sir Everard and his brother ey worthy the hero of a romance , Sir Everard with- were the only representatives , were , as ...
... Waverley , failing those of his eldest of the house of Waverley . With a grace and delica- son Wilfred , of whom Sir Everard and his brother ey worthy the hero of a romance , Sir Everard with- were the only representatives , were , as ...
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... Waverley was remote from either of these . patronage , by means of a tie which Sir Everard held His powers of apprehension were so uncommonly as sacred as either Garter or Blue - mantle ... Waverley - Honour , a 22 CHAP . Ill WAVERLEY .
... Waverley was remote from either of these . patronage , by means of a tie which Sir Everard held His powers of apprehension were so uncommonly as sacred as either Garter or Blue - mantle ... Waverley - Honour , a 22 CHAP . Ill WAVERLEY .
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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.