Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy ManneringR. Cadell, 1842 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... Army . Seaton Castle and Chapel , as in 1745 .... Tranent Church Yard , Battle Field , and Cock- Paton ..... J. S. Stuart . . Kirchner . . . 239 J. S. Stuart . Kirchner ... 243 Paton .... enzie in the distance . . Paton . . . . . The ...
... Army . Seaton Castle and Chapel , as in 1745 .... Tranent Church Yard , Battle Field , and Cock- Paton ..... J. S. Stuart . . Kirchner . . . 239 J. S. Stuart . Kirchner ... 243 Paton .... enzie in the distance . . Paton . . . . . The ...
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... army , which had been so lately silent as the grave , in uproar , and about to rush on him . He dropped the horn , and made a feeble attempt to seize the enchanted sword ; but at the same moment a voice pro- nounced aloud the mysterious ...
... army , which had been so lately silent as the grave , in uproar , and about to rush on him . He dropped the horn , and made a feeble attempt to seize the enchanted sword ; but at the same moment a voice pro- nounced aloud the mysterious ...
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... army , a battery of four field - pieces was stormed and carried by the Camerons and the Stewarts of Appine . The late Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle was one of the foremost in the charge , and observing an officer of the King's forces ...
... army , a battery of four field - pieces was stormed and carried by the Camerons and the Stewarts of Appine . The late Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle was one of the foremost in the charge , and observing an officer of the King's forces ...
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Walter Scott. straggling officers from the Highland army were executed without mercy , Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit , as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits , on which occasion he spent a ...
Walter Scott. straggling officers from the Highland army were executed without mercy , Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit , as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits , on which occasion he spent a ...
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... army was neither marked by devastation nor bloodshed , but , on the contrary , was orderly and quiet in a most wonderful degree , yet no army marches through a country in a hostile manner without committing some depredations ; and ...
... army was neither marked by devastation nor bloodshed , but , on the contrary , was orderly and quiet in a most wonderful degree , yet no army marches through a country in a hostile manner without committing some depredations ; and ...
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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.