Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy ManneringR. Cadell, 1842 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... affectionate old uncle to whose title and estate he was presumptive heir . A difference in political opinions had early separated the Baronet from his younger brother Richard Waverley , the father of our hero . Sir Everard had inherited ...
... affectionate old uncle to whose title and estate he was presumptive heir . A difference in political opinions had early separated the Baronet from his younger brother Richard Waverley , the father of our hero . Sir Everard had inherited ...
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... affections were fixed upon a young soldier of fortune , a near relation of her own . Sir Everard manifested great emotion ... affection , the secret of Lady Emily's attachment , and in despite of the nods , winks , and inuendoes of the ...
... affections were fixed upon a young soldier of fortune , a near relation of her own . Sir Everard manifested great emotion ... affection , the secret of Lady Emily's attachment , and in despite of the nods , winks , and inuendoes of the ...
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... affection and patronage , by means of a tie which Sir Eve- rard held as sacred as either Garter or Blue - Mantle , Providence seemed to have granted to him the very object best calculated to fill up the void in his hopes and affections ...
... affection and patronage , by means of a tie which Sir Eve- rard held as sacred as either Garter or Blue - Mantle , Providence seemed to have granted to him the very object best calculated to fill up the void in his hopes and affections ...
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... affectionate apprehension . He tried to coun- terbalance these propensities , by engaging his nephew in field sports , which had been the chief pleasure of his own youthful days . But although Edward eagerly carried the gun for one ...
... affectionate apprehension . He tried to coun- terbalance these propensities , by engaging his nephew in field sports , which had been the chief pleasure of his own youthful days . But although Edward eagerly carried the gun for one ...
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... affectionate . She only cautioned her dear Edward , whom she probably deemed somewhat susceptible , against the fascination of Scottish beauty . She allowed that the northern part of the island contained some ancient families , but they ...
... affectionate . She only cautioned her dear Edward , whom she probably deemed somewhat susceptible , against the fascination of Scottish beauty . She allowed that the northern part of the island contained some ancient families , but they ...
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Page 398 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Page 511 - As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet...
Page 29 - Springlets in the dawn are steaming, Diamonds on the brake are gleaming, And foresters have busy been To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Page 182 - ... pitchfork, her cheeks flushed with a scarlet red where they were not smutted with soot and lampblack, jostled through the crowd, and brandishing high a child of two years old, which she danced in her arms, without regard to its screams of terror, sang forth, with all her might " Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling, Charlie is my darling, The young Chevalier." " D'ye hear what's come ower ye now...
Page 170 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go...
Page 55 - With a desire of amusement therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge, young Waverley drove through the sea of books, like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder. Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. I believe one reason why such numerous instances of erudition occur among the lower...
Page 10 - I had a distinguished character for that talent, at a time when the applause of my companions was iny recompense for the disgraces and punishments which the future romance-writer incurred for being idle himself, and keeping others idle, during hours that should have been employed on our tasks. The chief enjoyment of my holidays was to escape with a chosen friend, who had the same taste with myself, and alternately to recite to each other such wild adventures as we were able to devise.
Page 505 - Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door. Nor kind mate, bound, by holy vow, To bless a good man's store. Noon lulls us in a gloomy den, And night is grown our day; Uprouse ye, then, my merry men! And use it as ye may.
Page 146 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake! Tis the bugle — but not for the chase is the call ; 'Tis the pibroch's shrill summons — but not to the hall.
Page 289 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.