The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1L.A. Godey, 1841 |
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... appearance . For a long period , however , it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a posthumous publication . But the course of the events which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's ...
... appearance . For a long period , however , it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a posthumous publication . But the course of the events which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's ...
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... appearance of de- vastation . It was surrounded with court walls , and the outer gate was barred and bolted . The bushes and brambles which grew around , and had even insinuated their branches beneath the gate , plainly showed that it ...
... appearance of de- vastation . It was surrounded with court walls , and the outer gate was barred and bolted . The bushes and brambles which grew around , and had even insinuated their branches beneath the gate , plainly showed that it ...
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... appearance , and singularly antique dress , who , to his great surprise , asked the price of his horses , and began to chaffer with him on the subject . To Canobie Dick , for so shall we call our Border dealer , a chap was a chap , and ...
... appearance , and singularly antique dress , who , to his great surprise , asked the price of his horses , and began to chaffer with him on the subject . To Canobie Dick , for so shall we call our Border dealer , a chap was a chap , and ...
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... appearances with the spectre which I saw while at Gay Bowers , I cannot resist the conviction that Heaven has ... appearance he made before her in various dresses during her course pronounced by a professed jester , which occurs ...
... appearances with the spectre which I saw while at Gay Bowers , I cannot resist the conviction that Heaven has ... appearance he made before her in various dresses during her course pronounced by a professed jester , which occurs ...
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... appearance , and employs this mystery , as the heroine of the old comedy used her mask , to attract the attention of those to whom her face had become too familiar . He may be a man of a grave profession , to whom the reputation of ...
... appearance , and employs this mystery , as the heroine of the old comedy used her mask , to attract the attention of those to whom her face had become too familiar . He may be a man of a grave profession , to whom the reputation of ...
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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.