The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... seemed to shed betwixt his attendants and the intruders . They were three be , had suffered nothing from the violence of the invaders ; and in number - their chief was tall , bony , and athletic , his spare the wretched beings who were ...
... seemed to shed betwixt his attendants and the intruders . They were three be , had suffered nothing from the violence of the invaders ; and in number - their chief was tall , bony , and athletic , his spare the wretched beings who were ...
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... seemed miserable in the e treme , especially to an eye accustomed to the smili neatness of English cottages . They stood , witho any respect for regularity , on each side of a straggli kind of unpaved street , where children , almost in ...
... seemed miserable in the e treme , especially to an eye accustomed to the smili neatness of English cottages . They stood , witho any respect for regularity , on each side of a straggli kind of unpaved street , where children , almost in ...
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... seemed , ideas of rest and seclusion excited by this confined pon the whole , as if poverty , and indolence , its too and quiet scene , that he forgot the misery and dirt of requent companion , were combining to depress the the hamlet ...
... seemed , ideas of rest and seclusion excited by this confined pon the whole , as if poverty , and indolence , its too and quiet scene , that he forgot the misery and dirt of requent companion , were combining to depress the the hamlet ...
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... seemed to indicate , that any him , not to spend his time exclusively , with persons , inquiry concerning the cause of his discomposure who , estimable as they might be in a general sense , would give pain at least , if not offence ...
... seemed to indicate , that any him , not to spend his time exclusively , with persons , inquiry concerning the cause of his discomposure who , estimable as they might be in a general sense , would give pain at least , if not offence ...
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... seemed to seemed to entertain of the effeminacy of the Low - be surrounded . The cool , and yet mild air of the landers , and particularly of the English . summer night , refreshed Waverley after his rapid and Through the gorge of this ...
... seemed to seemed to entertain of the effeminacy of the Low - be surrounded . The cool , and yet mild air of the landers , and particularly of the English . summer night , refreshed Waverley after his rapid and Through the gorge of this ...
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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.