The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1844 |
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... short , like the last touches of an Artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist . The General Preface to the new Edition , and the Introductory ...
... short , like the last touches of an Artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist . The General Preface to the new Edition , and the Introductory ...
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... short cropped head of le dusty papers ? " said Sir Henry , who seemed to dread a re- val of political discussion . " My investigation amongst them led to reflections which I ave just now hunted , " said Maxwell ; and I think they are ...
... short cropped head of le dusty papers ? " said Sir Henry , who seemed to dread a re- val of political discussion . " My investigation amongst them led to reflections which I ave just now hunted , " said Maxwell ; and I think they are ...
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... short encounter , any plan for introducing them to Lady Euma Darcy . On the retched the miscreant at his feet , and came to my assistance . day of the chase , he resolved to preserve his romantic disguise , was already slightly wounded ...
... short encounter , any plan for introducing them to Lady Euma Darcy . On the retched the miscreant at his feet , and came to my assistance . day of the chase , he resolved to preserve his romantic disguise , was already slightly wounded ...
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... short as it is , may be held as pledging the author to ners , to be interesting , must either refer to antiquity some special mode of laying his scene , drawing his so great as to have become venerable , or it must bear characters , and ...
... short as it is , may be held as pledging the author to ners , to be interesting , must either refer to antiquity some special mode of laying his scene , drawing his so great as to have become venerable , or it must bear characters , and ...
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... short , enses , but that more common aberration from sound a proposal was made to Mr. Richard Waverley , that udgment , which apprehends occurrences indeed in his son should travel , under the direction of his pre- hr reality , but ...
... short , enses , but that more common aberration from sound a proposal was made to Mr. Richard Waverley , that udgment , which apprehends occurrences indeed in his son should travel , under the direction of his pre- hr reality , but ...
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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.