WaverleyHoughton Mifflin, 1923 |
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Página xii
... less forcible for more appropriate epithets - slight alterations in short , like the last touches of an artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist ...
... less forcible for more appropriate epithets - slight alterations in short , like the last touches of an artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist ...
Página xv
... and affectation which attends it during a narrative of some length , and which may be observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries XV GENERAL PREFACE TO THE WAVERLEY ...
... and affectation which attends it during a narrative of some length , and which may be observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used , from the Commentaries XV GENERAL PREFACE TO THE WAVERLEY ...
Página xvii
... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edin- burgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ram- say , which , besides containing a ...
... less so , that I abused the indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal . There was at this time a circulating library in Edin- burgh , founded , I believe , by the celebrated Allan Ram- say , which , besides containing a ...
Página xix
... less degree of trouble which I should take to qualify myself as a pleader . It makes no part of the present story to detail how the success of a few ballads had the effect of changing all the purpose and tenor of my life , and of ...
... less degree of trouble which I should take to qualify myself as a pleader . It makes no part of the present story to detail how the success of a few ballads had the effect of changing all the purpose and tenor of my life , and of ...
Página xx
... less accessible and much less visited than they have been of late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were , like most veterans , easily induced to fight their battles over again for the benefit of a ...
... less accessible and much less visited than they have been of late years , and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745 , who were , like most veterans , easily induced to fight their battles over again for the benefit of a ...
Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered appeared arms army attended auld Bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother caliga called Callum Beg Captain Waverley Castle CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean dress Edinburgh English Evan Dhu eyes father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora frae Gay Bowers gentleman Gilfillan Glennaquoich hand head heard hero Highland honour hope horse house of Stuart Ivor Jacobites Lady Laird look Lord Lord George Murray louis-d'or Lowland Macwheeble Major Melville manner ment military mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning never night observed occasion officer party passed person Perthshire Pinkie House plaid poor portmanteau present Prince prisoner received regiment rendered replied returned romantic Rose Bradwardine scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon sword thought tion Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig young
Pasajes populares
Página 346 - Waken, lords and ladies gay." Waken, lords and ladies gay, To the greenwood haste away. We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot and tall of size ; We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed ; You shall see him brought to bay,
Página 179 - 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.
Página 261 - 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 52 - ... for plaguing them so long with old-fashioned politics, and Whig and Tory, and Hanoverians and Jacobites. The truth is, I cannot promise them that this story shall be intelligible, not to say probable, without it. My plan requires that I should explain the motives on which its action proceeded ; and these motives necessarily arose from the feelings, prejudices, and parties of the times.
Página 12 - ... and could it have • been possible for me, with a moderate attention to decorum, to introduce any scene more lively than might be produced by the jocularity of a clownish but faithful valet, or the garrulous narrative of the heroine's fille-de-chambre, when rehearsing the stories of blood and horror which she had heard in the servants...
Página 15 - ... those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.
Página xxxiv - The tale of Waverley was put together with so little care, that I cannot boast of having sketched any distinct plan of the work.