WaverleyHoughton Mifflin, 1923 |
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Página xxiii
... reason already mentioned regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step in my advance towards roman- tic composition ; and to preserve the traces of these is in a great measure the object of this Essay . Queenhoo Hall was not ...
... reason already mentioned regarding the preceding fragment . It was a step in my advance towards roman- tic composition ; and to preserve the traces of these is in a great measure the object of this Essay . Queenhoo Hall was not ...
Página xxvii
... reason for choosing to remain anonymous than by saying with Shylock , that such was my humour . It will be observed that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal reputation , the desire , namely , to float amidst the ...
... reason for choosing to remain anonymous than by saying with Shylock , that such was my humour . It will be observed that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal reputation , the desire , namely , to float amidst the ...
Página xxviii
... reason of my silence a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own liter- ary labours . It is in every case a dangerous intercourse for an author to be dwelling continually among those who make his writings a ...
... reason of my silence a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own liter- ary labours . It is in every case a dangerous intercourse for an author to be dwelling continually among those who make his writings a ...
Página xxix
... reasons for the conduct I have long observed , I can only resort to the explanation sup- plied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ; namely , that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised , to speak ...
... reasons for the conduct I have long observed , I can only resort to the explanation sup- plied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent ; namely , that the mental organisation of the novelist must be characterised , to speak ...
Página xxxv
... avowal have been laid before the public in the Introduction to the Chronicles of the Canon- gate . The preliminary advertisement has given a sketch of the purpose of this edition . I have some reason XXXV GENERAL PREFACE.
... avowal have been laid before the public in the Introduction to the Chronicles of the Canon- gate . The preliminary advertisement has given a sketch of the purpose of this edition . I have some reason XXXV GENERAL PREFACE.
Términos y frases comunes
ancient answered appeared arms army attended auld Bailie Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine broadsword brother called Callum Beg Captain Waverley Castle CHAPTER character Chevalier Chief Chieftain clan Colonel Talbot command dear Donald Bean Lean dress Edinburgh Emma Darcy 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 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.