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... Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Since - Página 27por Walter Scott - 1895 - 498 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Scott - 1821 - 308 páginas
...knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing -.vith its sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader shall be hereafter pleased to affix to it. But my second, or supplemental title, was a matter of much more... | |
| 1829 - 660 páginas
...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...reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix to it." Let every reader answer the question to himself—What ideas does he now affix to that sound ? We cannot... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 780 páginas
...maiden knight with his while shield, assumed for my hero. WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what...drawing his characters, and managing his adventures. Had I, for example, announced in my frontispiece, «Waverley, a Tale of other Days,» must not every novel-reader... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 880 páginas
...his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVEBLEY, on uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound httle as the first in the country. Do they come in the auld chaise?" " I dare af£1 to it. But my second or supplemental title was a mutter of much more difficult election, since... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 436 páginas
...maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WA VKRLEY, an uncoutaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what...drawing his characters, and managing his adventures. Had I, for example, announced in my frontispiece, " Waverley, a Tale of other Days," must not every novel... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 páginas
...my hero, WAVEBLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, e^ccepting what the reader shall hereafter be pleased to affix...drawing his characters, and managing his adventures. Had I, for example, announced in my frontispiece, "Wavcrley, a Tale of other Days," must not every novelreader... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 508 páginas
...maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero , WAVERLET, an uneontaminafed name, bearing with its sound little of good or evil, excepting what...was a matter of much more difficult election, since Hut, short as if is, may be held as pledging the author to some special mode of laying his scene, drawing... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 páginas
...with his wliito shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its Bound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader...drawing his characters, and managing his adventures. Had I, for example, announced in my frontispiece, " Waverley, a Talc of other Days," must not every novel... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 712 páginas
...knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVIBUIÏ, an uncontaminated name, bearing with ils sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader...affix to it. But my second or supplemental title was l matter of much more difficult election, since that »hört as it is, may be held as pledging the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 704 páginas
...knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with ils sound little of good or evil, excepting what the reader...affix to it. But my second or supplemental title was » matter of much more difficult election, since that, short ae it is, may be held as pledging the... | |
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