WaverleyHoughton Mifflin, 1923 |
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... heart the jargon of heraldry , its griffins , its moldwarps , its wyverns , and its dragons , with all the bitterness of Hotspur himself , there were moments when these communications inter- ested his fancy and rewarded his attention ...
... heart the jargon of heraldry , its griffins , its moldwarps , its wyverns , and its dragons , with all the bitterness of Hotspur himself , there were moments when these communications inter- ested his fancy and rewarded his attention ...
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... heart as well as consent was in these nuptials ; the air of dignity , yet of deep feeling , with which he flung down the half - drawn sword , and turned away for ever from the house of his ancestors . Then would he change the scene ...
... heart as well as consent was in these nuptials ; the air of dignity , yet of deep feeling , with which he flung down the half - drawn sword , and turned away for ever from the house of his ancestors . Then would he change the scene ...
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... heart more strongly bound , Responsive to the lofty sound , While , joying in the mighty roar , I mourn'd that tranquil scene no more . So , on the idle dreams of youth , Breaks the loud trumpet - call of truth , Bids each fair vision ...
... heart more strongly bound , Responsive to the lofty sound , While , joying in the mighty roar , I mourn'd that tranquil scene no more . So , on the idle dreams of youth , Breaks the loud trumpet - call of truth , Bids each fair vision ...
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... heart was all on honour bent , He could not stoop to love ; No lady in the land had power His frozen heart to move ; or whether the deep and flaming bars of embroidered gold , which now fenced his breast , defied the artillery of ...
... heart was all on honour bent , He could not stoop to love ; No lady in the land had power His frozen heart to move ; or whether the deep and flaming bars of embroidered gold , which now fenced his breast , defied the artillery of ...
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... heart a keen partisan of the exiled family , had kept pretty fair with all the different turns of state in his time ; so that Davie Gellatley once described him as a particularly good man , who had a very quiet and peaceful conscience ...
... heart a keen partisan of the exiled family , had kept pretty fair with all the different turns of state in his time ; so that Davie Gellatley once described him as a particularly good man , who had a very quiet and peaceful conscience ...
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
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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.