Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ...E.T. Scott, 1821 |
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... horse , who had threatened to cut to pieces . every Highlander that should venture to pass Stirling ; and while discussions were carrying forward among the magistracy and citizens whether they should de- fend themselves or surrender ...
... horse , who had threatened to cut to pieces . every Highlander that should venture to pass Stirling ; and while discussions were carrying forward among the magistracy and citizens whether they should de- fend themselves or surrender ...
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... horse . As to his behaviour , in addition to his natural antipathy to every thing that resembles a gentleman , I presume his adventure with Bradwardine rankles in his recollec- tion , the rather that I dare say his mode of telling that ...
... horse . As to his behaviour , in addition to his natural antipathy to every thing that resembles a gentleman , I presume his adventure with Bradwardine rankles in his recollec- tion , the rather that I dare say his mode of telling that ...
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... horses at ————— , or at • , ( one at least of which blanks , or more probably both , you will be able to fill up from an inn near your own residence , ) you must have observed , and doubtless with sympathetic pain , the reluctant agony ...
... horses at ————— , or at • , ( one at least of which blanks , or more probably both , you will be able to fill up from an inn near your own residence , ) you must have observed , and doubtless with sympathetic pain , the reluctant agony ...
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... horse ? " " Ta deil ane ye maun think of , " said Callum : " Vich Ian Vor's marching on foot at the head o ' his kin , ( no to say the prince , wha does the like , ) wi ' his target on his shoulder , and ye maun e'n be neighbour like ...
... horse ? " " Ta deil ane ye maun think of , " said Callum : " Vich Ian Vor's marching on foot at the head o ' his kin , ( no to say the prince , wha does the like , ) wi ' his target on his shoulder , and ye maun e'n be neighbour like ...
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... horses as fast forward as the press would admit , to join their proper stations in the van . The facinations of the Circes of the High Street , and the potions of strength with which they had been drenched over night , had probably de ...
... horses as fast forward as the press would admit , to join their proper stations in the van . The facinations of the Circes of the High Street , and the potions of strength with which they had been drenched over night , had probably de ...
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Side 243 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English or adopt their customs...
Side 116 - 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.
Side 208 - I was only ganging to say, my lord," said Evan, -in what he meant to be an insinuating manner, " that if your excellent honour, and the honourable court, would let Vich Ian Vohr go free just this once, and let him gae back to France, and no to trouble King George's government again, that ony
Side 245 - It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners, and feelings ; so as in some distant degree to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from the " Teagues" and " dear joys," who so long, with the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.
Side 243 - Highland chiefs, — the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons,— the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs, long continued to pride themselves upon maintaining ancient Scottish manners and customs,— commenced this innovation. The gradual influx of wealth, and extension of commerce, have since united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings as different from their grandfathers,...
Side 239 - It was a large and spirited painting, representing Fergus MacIvor and Waverley in their Highland dress, the scene a wild, rocky, and mountainous pass, down which the clan were descending in the back.ground.
Side 144 - These reveries he was permitted to enjoy, undisturbed by queries or interruption ; and it was in many a winter walk by the shores of Ulswater, that he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by adversity, than his former experience had given him; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now commenced.