The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 1L.A. Godey, 1841 |
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... took , That he was persuaded that the ground look'd blew ; And I dare boldly be sworn on a book , Such smiths as he there's but a few . A posset was made , and the women did sip , And simpering said , they could eat no more ; Full many ...
... took , That he was persuaded that the ground look'd blew ; And I dare boldly be sworn on a book , Such smiths as he there's but a few . A posset was made , and the women did sip , And simpering said , they could eat no more ; Full many ...
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... took up a re- ligious book , which his good mother or aunt had , without his knowledge , slipped into his portmanteau . It was called , if I remember the title exactly , The Christian Soldier , or Heaven taken by Storm , and it was ...
... took up a re- ligious book , which his good mother or aunt had , without his knowledge , slipped into his portmanteau . It was called , if I remember the title exactly , The Christian Soldier , or Heaven taken by Storm , and it was ...
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... took his way to the breakfast - parlour , oath of allegiance . The letter further insinuated , where he found his young friend Rose , who , though though with great delicacy , that although some she neither exhibited the resentment of ...
... took his way to the breakfast - parlour , oath of allegiance . The letter further insinuated , where he found his young friend Rose , who , though though with great delicacy , that although some she neither exhibited the resentment of ...
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... took advantage of the foray of Before they were dismissed , perhaps Captain Waver- Donald Bean Lean to solder up the dispute in the ley might choose to see them go through a part of manner we have mentioned . Some , indeed , surmi ...
... took advantage of the foray of Before they were dismissed , perhaps Captain Waver- Donald Bean Lean to solder up the dispute in the ley might choose to see them go through a part of manner we have mentioned . Some , indeed , surmi ...
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... took some interest , more or less immediate , in the main action of the piece . at a knight's house , who had many servants to attend bim , that party above or below the salt , or , sometimes , by a line drawn with chalk on the dining ...
... took some interest , more or less immediate , in the main action of the piece . at a knight's house , who had many servants to attend bim , that party above or below the salt , or , sometimes , by a line drawn with chalk on the dining ...
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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.