The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... letter or wire - nate and unyielding prejudice , stood aloof in haughty wove and hot - pressed , that I have venturously essay - and sullen opposition , and cast many a look of min ed to read a chapter to the public . Some favourable ...
... letter or wire - nate and unyielding prejudice , stood aloof in haughty wove and hot - pressed , that I have venturously essay - and sullen opposition , and cast many a look of min ed to read a chapter to the public . Some favourable ...
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... letters announced this deter- female lips , does not always exclude malice prepense , mination to the Baronet and his ... letter from Sir Everard with which , when a member of the House during Go - was found in the pocket of his night ...
... letters announced this deter- female lips , does not always exclude malice prepense , mination to the Baronet and his ... letter from Sir Everard with which , when a member of the House during Go - was found in the pocket of his night ...
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... letter , and a hamper or a cask or two , between Wa- verley - Honour and Tully - Veolan , the English exports I would venture something for the consisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale , pheas he cloth - But come , let's see the ...
... letter , and a hamper or a cask or two , between Wa- verley - Honour and Tully - Veolan , the English exports I would venture something for the consisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale , pheas he cloth - But come , let's see the ...
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... letter of his command - offended pride and indignation , and the whole of his ing - officer contained a friendly recommendation to demeanour such as seemed to indicate , that any him , not to spend his time exclusively , with persons ...
... letter of his command - offended pride and indignation , and the whole of his ing - officer contained a friendly recommendation to demeanour such as seemed to indicate , that any him , not to spend his time exclusively , with persons ...
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... letter to his son upon this oc- next to his skin . casion was a masterpiece of its kind . Aristides him- Mr. Pembroke only wrote to our hero one letter , self could not have made out a harder case . An but it was of the bulk of six ...
... letter to his son upon this oc- next to his skin . casion was a masterpiece of its kind . Aristides him- Mr. Pembroke only wrote to our hero one letter , self could not have made out a harder case . An but it was of the bulk of six ...
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ancient answered Antiquary appearance arms auld Bailie Baron Bradwardine Brown called Callum Captain castle CHAPTER character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain clan Colonel Mannering Colonel Talbot command dear deyvil Dinmont Dominie door Edinburgh Edward Ellangowan eyes father favour feelings Fergus Flora followed frae gentleman gipsy give Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering hand Hatteraick Hazlewood head heard Highland honour hope horse house of Stewart Jacobites Julia lady Laird letter look Lord Lovel Lucy Mac-Ivor Mac-Morlan mair maun ment mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering Miss Wardour Monkbarns morning never night observed occasion Oldbuck party person Pleydell poor Prince recollection rendered replied Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Arthur Sir Everard spirit Spontoon supposed tell there's thing thought tion Tully-Veolan turned Vich voice Waverley Waverley's weel wish Woodbourne words young
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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.