WaverleyHoughton Mifflin, 1923 |
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Página xxvii
... mind more ambitious than mine ; and in entering into this new con- test for reputation I might be said rather to endanger what I had than to have any considerable chance of ac- quiring more . I was affected , too , by none of those mo ...
... mind more ambitious than mine ; and in entering into this new con- test for reputation I might be said rather to endanger what I had than to have any considerable chance of ac- quiring more . I was affected , too , by none of those mo ...
Página xxviii
... mind , I have seldom felt more satisfac- tion 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 satisfac- tion 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 ...
Página xxix
... mind ; for the cup of flattery , if it does not , like that of Circe , reduce men to the level of beasts , is sure , if eagerly drained , to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools . This risk was in some degree prevented by ...
... mind ; for the cup of flattery , if it does not , like that of Circe , reduce men to the level of beasts , is sure , if eagerly drained , to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools . This risk was in some degree prevented by ...
Página xxxii
... mind deserving to be employed on a subject of much greater importance ; and I have no doubt made converts to his opinion of almost all who thought the point worthy of consideration.1 Of those letters , and other attempts of the same ...
... mind deserving to be employed on a subject of much greater importance ; and I have no doubt made converts to his opinion of almost all who thought the point worthy of consideration.1 Of those letters , and other attempts of the same ...
Página xliv
... mind enough to maintain that the man they had seen was the shepherd . ' Why did he not stop when we called to him ? ' said the soldier . ' He is as deaf , poor man , as a peat - stack , ' answered the ready- witted domestic . ' Let him ...
... mind enough to maintain that the man they had seen was the shepherd . ' Why did he not stop when we called to him ? ' said the soldier . ' He is as deaf , poor man , as a peat - stack , ' answered the ready- witted domestic . ' Let him ...
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.