The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1L.A. Godey, 1841 |
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... Waverley was doubtful , was natural enough , it is more difficult , it may be thought , to account for the same desire for secrecy during the subsequent editions , to the amount of betwixt eleven and twelve thousand copies , which ...
... Waverley was doubtful , was natural enough , it is more difficult , it may be thought , to account for the same desire for secrecy during the subsequent editions , to the amount of betwixt eleven and twelve thousand copies , which ...
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... WAVERLEY , an uncontaminated name , of an old ballad , nor reduced to the primitive naked- bearing with its sound little of good or evil , except - ness of a modern fashionable at a rout . From this ing what the reader shall hereafter ...
... WAVERLEY , an uncontaminated name , of an old ballad , nor reduced to the primitive naked- bearing with its sound little of good or evil , except - ness of a modern fashionable at a rout . From this ing what the reader shall hereafter ...
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... WAVERLEY - HONOUR . - A RETROSPECT . IT 18 , then , sixty years since Edward Waverley , the hero of the following pages , took leave of his family , to join the regiment of dragoons in which he had lately obtained a commission . It was ...
... WAVERLEY - HONOUR . - A RETROSPECT . IT 18 , then , sixty years since Edward Waverley , the hero of the following pages , took leave of his family , to join the regiment of dragoons in which he had lately obtained a commission . It was ...
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... Waverley , failing those of his eldest of the house of Waverley . With a grace and delica- son Wilfred , of whom Sir Everard and his brother cy worthy the hero of a romance , Sir Everard with- were the only representatives , were , as ...
... Waverley , failing those of his eldest of the house of Waverley . With a grace and delica- son Wilfred , of whom Sir Everard and his brother cy worthy the hero of a romance , Sir Everard with- were the only representatives , were , as ...
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... Waverley was remote from either of these . patronage , by means of a tie which Sir Everard held His powers of apprehension were so uncommonly as sacred as either Garter or Blue - mantle , Providence quick , as almost to resemble ...
... Waverley was remote from either of these . patronage , by means of a tie which Sir Everard held His powers of apprehension were so uncommonly as sacred as either Garter or Blue - mantle , Providence quick , as almost to resemble ...
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Page 5 - Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of fiction brought with it some degree of satiety, and I began by degrees to seek in histories, memoirs, voyages and travels, and the like, events nearly as wonderful as those which were the work of the imagination, with the additional advantage, that they were, at least, in a great measure true.
Page 25 - ... an imitation of the romance of Cervantes. But he will do my prudence injustice in the supposition. My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable author, in describing such total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring.
Page 99 - The regulars, who were in high spirits, returned a loud shout of defiance, and fired one or two of their cannon upon an advanced post of the Highlanders. The latter displayed great earnestness to proceed instantly to the attack, Evan Dhu urging to Fergus, by way of argument, that ' the sidier roy was tottering like an egg upon a staff, and that they had a' the vantage of the onset, for even a haggis (God bless her !) could charge down hill.
Page 21 - ... the show of pyramids and towers, some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched beneath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still, reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid colouring of the clouds amidst which he was setting. Nearer to the beach, the tide rippled onward in waves of sparkling silver, that imperceptibly, yet rapidly, gained upon the sand.