The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the * Corrector At the same time I did not in all respects abuse the license permitted me ...
... observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries of Cæsar , to the Autobiography of Alexander the * Corrector At the same time I did not in all respects abuse the license permitted me ...
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... observed , that I had not the usual stimulus for desi- ring personal reputation , the desire , namely , to flos amidst the conversation of men . Of literary fame , whether merited or un- deserved , I had already as much as might have ...
... observed , that I had not the usual stimulus for desi- ring personal reputation , the desire , namely , to flos amidst the conversation of men . Of literary fame , whether merited or un- deserved , I had already as much as might have ...
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... observe that his vicinity ? " conductor entered the hill side by a passage or cavern , of which he himself , though well ... observed , that the northern English retain rather more of the ancient hereditary aversion to their neigh- bours ...
... observe that his vicinity ? " conductor entered the hill side by a passage or cavern , of which he himself , though well ... observed , that the northern English retain rather more of the ancient hereditary aversion to their neigh- bours ...
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... observed the traces of a large stag on the preceding evening , were able , without loss of time , to conduct the company , by the marks which they had male upon the trees , to the side of the thicket , in winch , by the report of ...
... observed the traces of a large stag on the preceding evening , were able , without loss of time , to conduct the company , by the marks which they had male upon the trees , to the side of the thicket , in winch , by the report of ...
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... observed , was such as would render it highly iments as were dictated by his musings . He neither improper that a ... observation . Mrs. Rachel applied herself with leapt with great agility ) Captain Waverley , of Gardi- great prudence ...
... observed , was such as would render it highly iments as were dictated by his musings . He neither improper that a ... observation . Mrs. Rachel applied herself with leapt with great agility ) Captain Waverley , of Gardi- great prudence ...
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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.