The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... least in a great measure true . The lapse of nearly two years , during which I was left to the exercise of my own free will , was followed by a temporary residence in the country , where I was again very lonely but for the arasement ...
... least in a great measure true . The lapse of nearly two years , during which I was left to the exercise of my own free will , was followed by a temporary residence in the country , where I was again very lonely but for the arasement ...
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... least , to whom I am greatly obliged for the assign some dishonourable and discreditable cause for his silence . fidelity with which they observed their trust , until the derange It may be easily supposed that this sort of inquisition ...
... least , to whom I am greatly obliged for the assign some dishonourable and discreditable cause for his silence . fidelity with which they observed their trust , until the derange It may be easily supposed that this sort of inquisition ...
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... least , it must remain uncertain , whether WA VERLEY be the work of a poet or a critic , a lawyer or a clergy man , or whether the writer , to use Mrs. Malaprop's phrase , be , " like Cerberus - three gentlemen at once . " The Author ...
... least , it must remain uncertain , whether WA VERLEY be the work of a poet or a critic , a lawyer or a clergy man , or whether the writer , to use Mrs. Malaprop's phrase , be , " like Cerberus - three gentlemen at once . " The Author ...
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... least , if nature has given that ob- deeply concerned that it was now , unfortunately , not * ct any passable proportion of personal charms , he in Edward's power exactly to comply with the plan can easily play the Jeweller and Dervise ...
... least , if nature has given that ob- deeply concerned that it was now , unfortunately , not * ct any passable proportion of personal charms , he in Edward's power exactly to comply with the plan can easily play the Jeweller and Dervise ...
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... least would not have done so with impunity . The feelings which then dictated his pro- ceedings , were those of a young man , and at an agi- tating period . Since that time , Sir Everard's jacobi- tism had been gradually decaying , like ...
... least would not have done so with impunity . The feelings which then dictated his pro- ceedings , were those of a young man , and at an agi- tating period . Since that time , Sir Everard's jacobi- tism had been gradually decaying , like ...
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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.