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Página xxvi
... mind more ambitious than mine ; and in entering into this new contest for rep- utation , I might be said rather to endanger what I had , than to have any considerable chance of acquiring more . I was affected , too , by none of those ...
... mind more ambitious than mine ; and in entering into this new contest for rep- utation , I might be said rather to endanger what I had , than to have any considerable chance of acquiring more . I was affected , too , by none of those ...
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... mind , I have seldom felt more satisfaction 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 satisfaction 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... mind to exhibit himself in public after his recent disaster ; but Oswald the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state , had positively enjoined his attendance . " What ...
... mind to exhibit himself in public after his recent disaster ; but Oswald the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state , had positively enjoined his attendance . " What ...
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Abbotsford amusement ancient ANDREW LANG answered appeared arms attend Author Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine beauty broadsword brother called Callum Beg Captain Waverley castle caterans CHAPTER character chief chieftain clan command dear Donald Bean Lean Edinburgh Edward Waverley Emma Darcy English Evan Dhu Eyrbyggja Saga fair father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora Gay Bowers Gellatley gentleman Glennaquoich guest hall hand heard heart hero Highland horse house of Stewart Jacobite king Lady Laird letter Little Britain Lord Boteler manner ment mind Mirkwood Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor never night noble novels observed occasion party passed perhaps person political Rachel reader received Richard Waverley romance Roundhead scene Scotch Scotland Scott Scottish seemed Sir Everard sister song Stubbs passed sword tain tale thought tion Tom Otter Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr Waverley Honour Waverley's Whig wild young youth
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Página lvii - You shall see him brought to bay, " Waken, lords and ladies gay." Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay ; Tell them, youth, and mirth, and glee, Run a course as well as we, Time, stern huntsman ! who can baulk, Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk? Think of this, and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay.
Página 85 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it ; Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. "Do the verses he sings...
Página lvi - Springlets in the dawn are steaming, 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 237 - 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 90 - Edward, on the contrary, loved to fill up and round the sketch with the colouring of a warm and vivid imagination, which gives light and life to the actors and speakers in the drama of past ages.
Página cxii - ... 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 xxx - 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 cx - Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a " Sentimental Tale," would it not have been a sufficient presage of a heroine with a profusion of auburn hair, and a harp, the soft solace of her solitary hours, which she fortunately finds always the means of transporting from castle to...
Página 131 - 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 181 - The larger was placid, and even sullen in its course, wheeling in deep eddies, or sleeping in dark blue pools ; but the motions of the lesser brook were rapid and furious, issuing from between precipices, like a maniac from his confinement, all foam and uproar.