WaverleyHoughton Mifflin, 1923 |
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Página xxi
... opinion was unfavourable ; and having then some poetical reputation , I was unwilling to risk the loss of it by attempting a new style of composition . I therefore threw aside the work I had commenced , without either reluctance or ...
... opinion was unfavourable ; and having then some poetical reputation , I was unwilling to risk the loss of it by attempting a new style of composition . I therefore threw aside the work I had commenced , without either reluctance or ...
Página xxiii
... opinion ) con- siderable powers of imagination . As the work was unfinished , I deemed it my duty , as editor , to supply such a hasty and inartificial conclusion as could be shaped out from the story , of which Mr. Strutt had laid the ...
... opinion ) con- siderable powers of imagination . As the work was unfinished , I deemed it my duty , as editor , to supply such a hasty and inartificial conclusion as could be shaped out from the story , of which Mr. Strutt had laid the ...
Página xxiv
... opinion that a romance founded on a Highland story and more modern events would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , re- turned more than once to the tale which I had actually commenced ...
... opinion that a romance founded on a Highland story and more modern events would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry . My thoughts , therefore , re- turned more than once to the tale which I had actually commenced ...
Página xxx
... opinions broached in these Tales and such as were used by their Author in the intercourse of private life must have ... opinions and reasoning were liable to be taxed with partiality , or confronted with opposing arguments and opinions ...
... opinions broached in these Tales and such as were used by their Author in the intercourse of private life must have ... opinions and reasoning were liable to be taxed with partiality , or confronted with opposing arguments and opinions ...
Página xxxi
... opinion was entirely formed , and that any disclamations of mine would only have sav- oured of affectation . I do not mean to insinuate that the incident did not happen , but only that it could hardly have occurred exactly under the ...
... opinion was entirely formed , and that any disclamations of mine would only have sav- oured of affectation . I do not mean to insinuate that the incident did not happen , but only that it could hardly have occurred exactly under the ...
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.