Waverley Novels: Waverly. Guy ManneringR. Cadell, 1842 - Historical fiction, Scottish |
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... mind , I have seldom felt more satisfaction than when , returning from a pleasure voyage , I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity , and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the author . The knowledge that I had the ...
... mind , I have seldom felt more satisfaction than when , returning from a pleasure voyage , I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity , and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the author . The knowledge that I had the ...
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... mind to exhibit himself in public after his recent disaster ; but Oswald , the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state , had positively enjoined his attendance . " What ...
... mind to exhibit himself in public after his recent disaster ; but Oswald , the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state , had positively enjoined his attendance . " What ...
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... mind was wandering , answered her in soothing terms , and finally prevailed upon her to accompany them to the banqueting - hall . Here the first person they encountered was the Baron Fitzosborne of Diggswell , now divested of his armour ...
... mind was wandering , answered her in soothing terms , and finally prevailed upon her to accompany them to the banqueting - hall . Here the first person they encountered was the Baron Fitzosborne of Diggswell , now divested of his armour ...
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... mind for earnest investigation , -an art far more essential than even that intimate acquaintance with classical learning which is the primary object of study . I am aware I may be here reminded of the necessity of rendering instruction ...
... mind for earnest investigation , -an art far more essential than even that intimate acquaintance with classical learning which is the primary object of study . I am aware I may be here reminded of the necessity of rendering instruction ...
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... mind , the poor student is limited to a narrow circle for indulging his passion for books , and must necessarily make himself master of the few he possesses ere he can acquire more . Edward , on the contrary , like the epicure who only ...
... mind , the poor student is limited to a narrow circle for indulging his passion for books , and must necessarily make himself master of the few he possesses ere he can acquire more . Edward , on the contrary , like the epicure who only ...
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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
Popular passages
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.