Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceNew York publishing Company, 1895 - 498 páginas |
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... reason already mentioned regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step in my advance toward romantic composition ; and to preserve the traces of these is in a great measure the object of this Essay . Queen Hoo Hall was not , however ...
... reason already mentioned regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step in my advance toward romantic composition ; and to preserve the traces of these is in a great measure the object of this Essay . Queen Hoo Hall was not , however ...
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... reason for choosing to remain anonymous , than by saying , with Shylock , that such was my humor . It will be observed , that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal reputation , the desire , namely , to float amidst the ...
... reason for choosing to remain anonymous , than by saying , with Shylock , that such was my humor . It will be observed , that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal reputation , the desire , namely , to float amidst the ...
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... reason of my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal dis- cussions concerning my own literary labors . It is ... reasons for the conduct I have long ob served , I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as ...
... reason of my silence , a secret dislike to enter on personal dis- cussions concerning my own literary labors . It is ... reasons for the conduct I have long ob served , I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as ...
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... reason to fear that the notes which ac- company the tales , as now published , may be thought too miscel laneous and too egotistical . It may be some apology for this , that the publication was intended to be posthumous , and still more ...
... reason to fear that the notes which ac- company the tales , as now published , may be thought too miscel laneous and too egotistical . It may be some apology for this , that the publication was intended to be posthumous , and still more ...
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... reasons , be equally fit for the array of a fictitious character ; but who , meaning the cos tume of his hero to be impressive , would willingly attire him in the court - dress of George the Second's reign , with its no collar , large ...
... reasons , be equally fit for the array of a fictitious character ; but who , meaning the cos tume of his hero to be impressive , would willingly attire him in the court - dress of George the Second's reign , with its no collar , large ...
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ancient answered appeared arms army attend bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine Brad broadsword brother caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley castle CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command danger dear Donald Bean Lean Edinburgh English Evan Dhu eyes father favor feelings Fergus MacIvor Flora Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland hope horse House of Stewart Jacobite Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Maccombich Macwheeble Major Melville manner military mind Mirkwood Miss Bradwardine morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire plaid poor portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied romantic Rose scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon supposed sword thought tion Tully Veolan Vich Ian Vohr wardine Waverley Honor Waverley's Whig wish young
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Página 155 - MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS FAREWELL to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birthplace of valor, the country of worth! Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Chorus 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!
Página 130 - Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death, When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath: They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe, To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
Página 27 - I must modestly admit I am too diffident of my own merit to place it in unnecessary opposition to preconceived associations ; I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting -what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it...
Página 37 - I believe one reason why such numerous instances of erudition occur among the lower ranks is, that, with the same powers of 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.
Página 240 - He saw a party of the foot, who were then bravely fighting near him, and whom he was ordered to support, had no officer to head them ; upon which he said eagerly, in the hearing of the person from whom I had this account, ' These brave follows will be cut to pieces for want of a commander...
Página 360 - WAKEN, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day, All the jolly chase is here, With hawk, and horse, and hunting-spear ! Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they,
Página 324 - There, in a gloomy hollow glen, she found A little cottage built of sticks and reeds, In homely wise, and wall'd with sods around, In which a witch did dwell in loathly weeds, And wilful want, all careless of her needs; So choosing solitary to abide Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds, And hellish arts, from people she might hide, And hurt far off, unknown, whomsoever she espied.
Página 329 - I was only ganging to say, my lord," said Evan, in what he meant to be an insinuating manner, " that if your excellent honour, and the honourable Court, would let Vich Ian Vohr go free just this once, and let him gae back to France, and no to trouble King George's government again, that ony six o...
Página 27 - Waverley, a Tale of other Days," must not every novel reader have anticipated a castle scarce less than that of Udolpho, of which the eastern wing had long been uninhabited, and the keys either lost, or consigned to the care of some aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle of the second volume, were doomed to guide the liero or the heroine to the ruinous precincts?
Página 78 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest. Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it: Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. " Do the verses he sings," asked Waveiley, " belong to the old Scottish poelry.