The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 10Carey & Hart, 1847 |
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... received his death - wound , under the learned guid- is a virtuoso ? Don't ye know ? Why , it's one ance of Dalgetty ; and marked the spot " where who wishes and will know every thing .'- Now , the grass grew long and green ...
... received his death - wound , under the learned guid- is a virtuoso ? Don't ye know ? Why , it's one ance of Dalgetty ; and marked the spot " where who wishes and will know every thing .'- Now , the grass grew long and green ...
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... received the wound , though he must have been perfectly well known to him . When he recovered , and was dismissed , the author and his brothers opened a communication with him , through the medium of a popular gingerbread baker , of ...
... received the wound , though he must have been perfectly well known to him . When he recovered , and was dismissed , the author and his brothers opened a communication with him , through the medium of a popular gingerbread baker , of ...
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... received and still recollect with very great pleasure . bered , and will remind my reader of a similar trait in the juvenile manners both of Burns and Byron ; nor was this habit entirely laid aside even in Scott's advanced age . If he ...
... received and still recollect with very great pleasure . bered , and will remind my reader of a similar trait in the juvenile manners both of Burns and Byron ; nor was this habit entirely laid aside even in Scott's advanced age . If he ...
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... received by the cateran " with much courtesy , " in a cavern exactly such as that of Bean Lean ; dined on collops cut from some of his own cattle , which he recognised hanging by their heels from the rocky roof beyond ; and returned in ...
... received by the cateran " with much courtesy , " in a cavern exactly such as that of Bean Lean ; dined on collops cut from some of his own cattle , which he recognised hanging by their heels from the rocky roof beyond ; and returned in ...
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... receiving these de- clarations , whether true or false , as a part of his duty which he could not decline , even had ... received a reprieve , which , I understand , is now pro- longed for a second month , I suppose to wait the issue of ...
... receiving these de- clarations , whether true or false , as a part of his duty which he could not decline , even had ... received a reprieve , which , I understand , is now pro- longed for a second month , I suppose to wait the issue of ...
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Page 12 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Page 34 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, I say literally glowed, when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Page 84 - Scott observed that, in the verses on Solomon's Temple, one striking circumstance had escaped him, namely, that no tools were used in its erection. Reginald retired for a few minutes to the corner of the room, and returned with the beautiful lines, — " No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Page 33 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.
Page 34 - ... clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents.
Page 275 - The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill, In Ettrick's vale, is sinking sweet ; The westland wind is hush and still — The lake lies sleeping at my feet. Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore : Though evening, with her richest dye, Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. ' With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride.
Page 177 - I understood him when he replied, ' that in nature herself no two scenes are exactly alike, and that whoever copied truly what was before his eyes, would possess the same variety in his descriptions, and exhibit apparently an imagination as boundless as the range of nature in the scenes he recorded...
Page 34 - I recollect pulling up the reins without meaning to do so, and gazing on the scene before me as if I had been afraid it would shift like those in a theatre before I could distinctly observe its different parts, or convince myself that what I saw was
Page 17 - True History of several honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scot, in the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent, gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers...
Page 244 - He was often melancholy — almost gloomy. When I observed him in this humour, I used either to wait till it went off of its own accord, or till some natural and easy mode occurred of leading him into conversation, when the shadows almost always left his countenance, like the mist rising from a landscape. In conversation he was very animated.