The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1Carey & Hart, 1846 |
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... sort of parental control 1over these works , " he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a cor- " rected , and , he hopes , an improved form , while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them . Such ...
... sort of parental control 1over these works , " he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a cor- " rected , and , he hopes , an improved form , while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them . Such ...
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... sort , do not recollect any of these novels , in which I have trans- .. gressed so widely as in the first of the series . But it was not only the triumphs of Miss Edgeworth which worked in me emulation , and disturbed my indolence . I ...
... sort , do not recollect any of these novels , in which I have trans- .. gressed so widely as in the first of the series . But it was not only the triumphs of Miss Edgeworth which worked in me emulation , and disturbed my indolence . I ...
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... sort , Who to the wounded had no mood But murd'ring sport ! E'en both at Preston and Falkirk , That fatal night ere it grew mirk . Piercing the wounded with their durk , Caused many cry ! Such pity's shown from savage and Turk , As ...
... sort , Who to the wounded had no mood But murd'ring sport ! E'en both at Preston and Falkirk , That fatal night ere it grew mirk . Piercing the wounded with their durk , Caused many cry ! Such pity's shown from savage and Turk , As ...
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... sort of gratification rendered it daily more diffi- rod was speedily flung aside . Society and example , cult of attainment , till the passion for reading , like which , more than any other motives , master and other strong appetites ...
... sort of gratification rendered it daily more diffi- rod was speedily flung aside . Society and example , cult of attainment , till the passion for reading , like which , more than any other motives , master and other strong appetites ...
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... sort of protection - money that Low - country gentlemen and heritors , lying near the Highlands , pay to some Highland chief , that he may neither do them harm himself , nor suffer it to be done to them by others ; and then if your ...
... sort of protection - money that Low - country gentlemen and heritors , lying near the Highlands , pay to some Highland chief , that he may neither do them harm himself , nor suffer it to be done to them by others ; and then if your ...
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