The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1L.A. Godey, 1841 |
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... person put upon trial , to refuse giving my own evidence to my own conviction , and flatly to deny all that could not be proved against me . At the same time , usually qualified my denial by stating , that , had I been the author of ...
... person put upon trial , to refuse giving my own evidence to my own conviction , and flatly to deny all that could not be proved against me . At the same time , usually qualified my denial by stating , that , had I been the author of ...
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... person chanced to evince particular curiosity on such a subject , my brother was likely enough to divert himself with practising on their credulity . It may be mentioned , that while the paternity of these novels was from time to time ...
... person chanced to evince particular curiosity on such a subject , my brother was likely enough to divert himself with practising on their credulity . It may be mentioned , that while the paternity of these novels was from time to time ...
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... person of Honour - spes altera , as Maro hath it - and you have his natural heir and seventh cousin , Girnigo of Tip- the look of the old line , Captain Waverley ; not so perhewit , whose family was so reduced by the ensu- portly yet as ...
... person of Honour - spes altera , as Maro hath it - and you have his natural heir and seventh cousin , Girnigo of Tip- the look of the old line , Captain Waverley ; not so perhewit , whose family was so reduced by the ensu- portly yet as ...
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... person towards it in a line to call it Ursa Major , ) and was supposed , in old and which obliqued from the bottom of his spine , so that Catholic times , to be invested with certain properties the person who sat opposite to him could ...
... person towards it in a line to call it Ursa Major , ) and was supposed , in old and which obliqued from the bottom of his spine , so that Catholic times , to be invested with certain properties the person who sat opposite to him could ...
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... person ) ? " asked Evan . have chosen to be the central object of a group of Nothing equal to his father , " replied Donald Bean . " He told us the other day we were to see a banditti . * Donald Bean Lean was the very reverse of all ...
... person ) ? " asked Evan . have chosen to be the central object of a group of Nothing equal to his father , " replied Donald Bean . " He told us the other day we were to see a banditti . * Donald Bean Lean was the very reverse of all ...
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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.