Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy ManneringR. Cadell, 1842 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... believe some of my old schoolfellows can still bear witness that I had a distinguished character for that talent , at a time when the applause of my companions was my recompense for the disgraces and punishments which the future romance ...
... believe some of my old schoolfellows can still bear witness that I had a distinguished character for that talent , at a time when the applause of my companions was my recompense for the disgraces and punishments which the future romance ...
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... believe , they were all morally convinced of it . But while I was myself silent , their belief could not weigh much more with the world than that of others ; their opinions and reasoning were liable to be taxed with partiality , or ...
... believe , they were all morally convinced of it . But while I was myself silent , their belief could not weigh much more with the world than that of others ; their opinions and reasoning were liable to be taxed with partiality , or ...
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... believe , wrote a single line of the projected work ; and I only have the melancholy pleasure of preserving in the Appendix , * the simple anecdote on which he proposed to found it . To this I may add , I can easily conceive that there ...
... believe , wrote a single line of the projected work ; and I only have the melancholy pleasure of preserving in the Appendix , * the simple anecdote on which he proposed to found it . To this I may add , I can easily conceive that there ...
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... believe , in 1715 and 1745 ; was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras ; and , I have heard , was remarkable , among other exploits , for having fought a duel with the ...
... believe , in 1715 and 1745 ; was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras ; and , I have heard , was remarkable , among other exploits , for having fought a duel with the ...
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... believe , Such cruelty . Ev'n what was act on open stage At Carlisle , in the hottest rage , When mercy was clapt in a cage , And pity dead , Such cruelty approv'd by every age , I shook my head . So many to curse , so few to pray , And ...
... believe , Such cruelty . Ev'n what was act on open stage At Carlisle , in the hottest rage , When mercy was clapt in a cage , And pity dead , Such cruelty approv'd by every age , I shook my head . So many to curse , so few to pray , And ...
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answered appearance arms attended auld Bailie Baron of Bradwardine broadsword Brown called Callum Captain Waverley castle Chapter character Charles Hazlewood Chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Mannering Colonel Talbot command dear deyvil Dinmont Dirk Hatteraick Dominie door Edinburgh Edward Ellangowan Evan eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora followed frae gentleman gipsy Glennaquoich Glossin Guy Mannering hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart Jacobite Julia lady Laird letter Liddesdale look Lord Lucy Mac-Morlan Macwheeble maun Merrilies mind Miss Bertram Miss Mannering morning never night observed occasion party person Pleydell poor portmanteau Prince prisoner received recollection regiment rendered replied Rose Sampson scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard Sir Robert Spontoon stranger supposed thought Tully-Veolan turned voice Waverley-Honour Waverley's weel Whig wish Woodbourne young Hazlewood younker
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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.