Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since, Bind 2J. Ballantyne, 1814 |
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... ) have nothing to do with the imposing a new tax , excepting the trifling circum- stance of being obliged to pay it . More happy surely in the present case , since , though it lies within my arbitrary power to extend my WAVERLEY; ...
... ) have nothing to do with the imposing a new tax , excepting the trifling circum- stance of being obliged to pay it . More happy surely in the present case , since , though it lies within my arbitrary power to extend my WAVERLEY; ...
Side 10
... present- ing a most formidable phalanx , their antlers appearing at a distance over the ridge of the steep pass like a leafless grove . Their number was very great , and , from a desperate stand which they made , with the tallest of the ...
... present- ing a most formidable phalanx , their antlers appearing at a distance over the ridge of the steep pass like a leafless grove . Their number was very great , and , from a desperate stand which they made , with the tallest of the ...
Side 33
... present system . Sir Everard had no doubt that he now both saw and felt the magnitude of this error , and it should be his ( Sir Everard's ) business , to take care that the cause of his regret should not extend itself to pecu niary ...
... present system . Sir Everard had no doubt that he now both saw and felt the magnitude of this error , and it should be his ( Sir Everard's ) business , to take care that the cause of his regret should not extend itself to pecu niary ...
Side 36
... direct towards errors which . may arise from youth and inexperience , and that altogether without effect , I am reluctantly compelled , at the present cri- sis , to use the only remaining remedy which is 36 WAVERLEY .
... direct towards errors which . may arise from youth and inexperience , and that altogether without effect , I am reluctantly compelled , at the present cri- sis , to use the only remaining remedy which is 36 WAVERLEY .
Side 38
... present situation , the same pressure of authority which had been ex- ercised in his father's case , and that the whole was a concerted scheme to depress and degrade every member of the Waver ley family . Without a pause , therefore ...
... present situation , the same pressure of authority which had been ex- ercised in his father's case , and that the whole was a concerted scheme to depress and degrade every member of the Waver ley family . Without a pause , therefore ...
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Side 77 - 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...
Side 343 - English dialect by the equally well-distinguished voice of the commanding officer, for whom he had once felt so much respect. It was at that instant, that, looking around him, he saw the wild dress and appearance of his Highland associates, heard their whispers in an uncouth and unknown language, looked upon his own dress, so unlike that which he had worn from his infancy, and wished to awake from what seemed at the moment a dream, strange, horrible, and unnatural.
Side 255 - ... side, he was irresistibly attracted to the cause which the prejudices of education, and the political principles of his family, had already recommended as the most just. These thoughts rushed through his mind like a torrent, sweeping before them every consideration of an opposite tendency, — the time, besides, admitted of no deliberation , — and Waverley, kneeling to Charles Edward, devoted his heart and sword to the vindication of his rights...
Side 3 - Mongst craggy cliffs and thunder-battered hills, Hares, hinds, bucks, roes, are chased by men and dogs, Where two hours' hunting fourscore fat deer kills. Lowland, your sports are low as is your seat; The Highland games and minds are high and great.