Waverley - Heart of MidlothianRobert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker & Company London., 1833 |
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... mind more ambitious than mine ; and in entering into this new contest for reputation , 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 reputation , 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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Walter Scott. bonnet . Far from such an ungracious state of mind , I have seldom felt more satisfaction than when , returning from a pleasure voyage , I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity , and pub- lic curiosity in full cry ...
Walter Scott. bonnet . Far from such an ungracious state of mind , I have seldom felt more satisfaction than when , returning from a pleasure voyage , I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity , and pub- lic curiosity in full cry ...
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... mind ; for the cup of flattery , if it does not , like that of Circe , re- duce men to the level of beasts , is sure , if ea- gerly drained , to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools . This risk was in some degree ...
... mind ; for the cup of flattery , if it does not , like that of Circe , re- duce men to the level of beasts , is sure , if ea- gerly drained , to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools . This risk was in some degree ...
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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 . * 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 . * Of those letters , and other attempts of the same ...
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... mind to exhibit himself in pub- lic , after his recent disaster ; but Oswald the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibi- tion of his master's household state , had positively en- joined his attendance ...
... mind to exhibit himself in pub- lic , after his recent disaster ; but Oswald the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibi- tion of his master's household state , had positively en- joined his attendance ...
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Página 52 - Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily merrily mingle they, 'Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Página 12 - Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact, which pervade the works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted for my own country of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for Ireland...
Página 248 - Say then, that he was wise as brave, As wise in thought as bold in deed; For in the principles of things He sought his moral creed. Said generous Rob, " What need of Books ? Burn all the statutes and their shelves ! They stir us up against our kind, And worse, against ourselves.
Página 202 - ... for payment of which you are now prosecuted. The papers relating to the transaction are in the hands of Mr. , a writer, (or attorney,) who is now retired from professional business, and resides at Inveresk, near Edinburgh. He was a person whom I employed on that occasion, for a particular reason, but who never on any other occasion transacted business on my account. It is very possible...
Página 249 - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Página 202 - When he came there he waited on the gentleman mentioned in the dream, a very old man ; without saying anything of the vision, he inquired whether he remembered having conducted such a matter for his deceased father. The old gentleman could not at first bring the circumstance to his recollection, but, on mention of the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon his memory ; he made an immediate search for the papers, and recovered them ; so that Mr. Rutherford carried to Edinburgh the documents...
Página 202 - Mr. R d awakened in the morning with all the words of the vision imprinted on his mind, and thought it worth while to ride across the country to Inveresk, instead of going straight to Edinburgh. When he came there, he waited on the gentleman mentioned in the dream, a very old man ; without saying anything of the vision, he inquired whether he remembered having conducted such a matter for his deceased father.
Página 114 - ... also by about fifteen dragoons, who stood by him to the last. But after a faint fire, the regiment in general was seized with a panic ; and though their Colonel and some other gallant officers did what they could to rally them once or twice, they at last took a precipitate flight. And just in the moment when Colonel Gardiner seemed to be making a pause to deliberate what duty required him to do in such...
Página 53 - 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 24 - 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 -