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amusement ancient answered appeared arms attend Bailie Macwheeble Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother called Callum Beg Captain Waverley castle Caterans CHAPTER character chief Chieftain clan Clere curiosity Davie Gellatley dear Donald Bean Lean dress Edward Waverley Emma Darcy English Evan Dhu father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora Gay Bowers gentleman Glennaquoich guest hand heard heraldry hero Highland honour horse interest Jacobite King Laird Little Britain Lord Boteler Lord Byron louis-d'or Lowland manner ment mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning neighbour never night noble observed occasion party passed perhaps person Perthshire plaid political present received rendered replied returned Richard Waverley romance Rose Roundhead scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard sister song sword Tewin thou thought tion Titus Livius Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr WAVERLEY NOVELS Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig wild young youth
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Página 341 - 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 275 - Flora's possessed the utmost feminine delicacy. But the haughty, and somewhat stern regularity of Fergus's features was beautifully softened in those of Flora. Their voices were also similar in tone, though differing in the key. That of Fergus, especially while issuing orders to his followers during their military exercise, reminded Edward of a favourite passage in the description of Emetrius : — whose voice was heard around, Loud as a trumpet with a silver sound.
Página 142 - ... he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord JESUS CHRIST upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this ef*fect, (for he was not confident as to the very words;) " Oh sinner, did I suffer...
Página 54 - Waken, lords and ladies gay, The mist has left the mountain grey ; Springlets in the dawn are streaming, 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,
Página 90 - ... would have my readers understand, that they will meet in the following pages neither a romance of chivalry, nor a tale of modern manners ; that my hero will neither have iron on his shoulders, as of yore, nor on the heels of his boots, as is the present fashion of Bond Street ; and that my damsels will neither be clothed
Página 28 - Scott as much as owned himself the Author of Waverley to me in Murray's shop. I was talking to him about that novel, and lamented that its author had not carried back the story nearer to the time of the Revolution —Scott, entirely off his guard, replied, ' Ay, I might have done so; but — ' there he stopped. It was in vain to attempt to correct himself; he looked confused, and relieved his embarrassment by a precipitate retreat.
Página 128 - Mine is a humble English post-chaise, drawn upon four wheels, and keeping his majesty's highway. Such as dislike the vehicle may leave it at the next halt, and wait for the conveyance of Prince Hussein's tapestry, or Malek the Weaver's flying sentry-box.
Página 233 - Gordon, and that at deep midnight, through scenes of difficulty and toil, separated from his attendant, left by his guide :— What a variety of incidents for the exercise of a romantic imagination, and all enhanced by the solemn feeling of uncertainty, at least, if not of danger...
Página 54 - Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily merrily mingle they, 'Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 89 - Waverley, a Romance from the German," what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and dark lanterns ? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a