The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... believe I read almost all the romances , old plays , and tion that the dumb wife in the jest - book held to her husband , epic poetry , in that formidable collection , and no doubt was when , having spent half of his fortune to obtain ...
... believe I read almost all the romances , old plays , and tion that the dumb wife in the jest - book held to her husband , epic poetry , in that formidable collection , and no doubt was when , having spent half of his fortune to obtain ...
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... believe , Such cruelty . E'en what was act o open stage At Carlisle , in the hotest rage , When mercy was clapt in a cage , And pity dead , Such cruelty approved by every age , shook my he d So many to curse , so few to pray , And some ...
... believe , Such cruelty . E'en what was act o open stage At Carlisle , in the hotest rage , When mercy was clapt in a cage , And pity dead , Such cruelty approved by every age , shook my he d So many to curse , so few to pray , And some ...
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... believe one reason why such numerous which had been the chief pleasure of his own youth- instances of erudition occur among the lower ranks ful days . But although Edward eagerly carried the is that , with the same powers of mind , the ...
... believe one reason why such numerous which had been the chief pleasure of his own youth- instances of erudition occur among the lower ranks ful days . But although Edward eagerly carried the is that , with the same powers of mind , the ...
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... believe , his friend had somewhat discomposed the stiff and between ourselves , his grandsire was from the wrong upright dignity of the Baron of Bradwardine's de- side of the Border - one Bullsegg , who came hither meanour , for the ...
... believe , his friend had somewhat discomposed the stiff and between ourselves , his grandsire was from the wrong upright dignity of the Baron of Bradwardine's de- side of the Border - one Bullsegg , who came hither meanour , for the ...
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... believe not , " she replied . " This poor creature had a brother , and Heaven , as if to compensate to the family Davie's deficiencies , had given him what The truth is , the ride seemed agreeable to both the hamlet thought uncommon ...
... believe not , " she replied . " This poor creature had a brother , and Heaven , as if to compensate to the family Davie's deficiencies , had given him what The truth is , the ride seemed agreeable to both the hamlet thought uncommon ...
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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.