Waverly Novels: WaverlyTicknor and Fields, 1864 |
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... never been expected or hoped for . The severe studies necessary to render me fit for my profession occupied the greater part of my time ; and the society of my friends and companions who were about to enter life along with me , filled ...
... never been expected or hoped for . The severe studies necessary to render me fit for my profession occupied the greater part of my time ; and the society of my friends and companions who were about to enter life along with me , filled ...
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... never resumed , but I did not abandon the idea of fictitious composition in prose , though I determined to give another turn to the style of the work . My early collections of the Highland scenery and cus- toms made so favourable an ...
... never resumed , but I did not abandon the idea of fictitious composition in prose , though I determined to give another turn to the style of the work . My early collections of the Highland scenery and cus- toms made so favourable an ...
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... never seen in the printing office ; and thus the curiosity of such eager inquirers as made the most minute investigation , was entirely at fault . But although the cause of concealing the author's name in the first instance , when the ...
... never seen in the printing office ; and thus the curiosity of such eager inquirers as made the most minute investigation , was entirely at fault . But although the cause of concealing the author's name in the first instance , when the ...
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... would have felt myself quite entitled to protect my secret by refusing my own evidence , when it was asked for to accomplish a discovery of what I desired to conceal . The real truth is , that I never expected or 26 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... would have felt myself quite entitled to protect my secret by refusing my own evidence , when it was asked for to accomplish a discovery of what I desired to conceal . The real truth is , that I never expected or 26 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
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... never recollect being in pain or confusion on the subject . In Captain Medwyn's Conversations of Lord Byron , the reporter states himself to have asked my noble and highly gifted friend , " If he was certain about these Novels being Sir ...
... never recollect being in pain or confusion on the subject . In Captain Medwyn's Conversations of Lord Byron , the reporter states himself to have asked my noble and highly gifted friend , " If he was certain about these Novels being Sir ...
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amusement ancient answered appeared arms attend Balmawhapple Baron of Bradwardine Baronet broadsword brother called Captain Waverley castle Caterans CHAPTER character chief Chieftain clan Clere curiosity curragh Davie Gellatley dear Donald Bean Lean dress Edward Waverley Emma Darcy English Evan Dhu father favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Flora Gay Bowers gentleman Glennaquoich guest habits hall hand heard heart heraldry hero Highland honour horse house of Stewart interest Jacobite King Laird letter Lord Boteler louis-d'or Lowland manner ment mind Miss Bradwardine Miss Mac-Ivor morning mountain neighbouring never night noble observed occasion party passed perhaps person Perthshire political primitive integrity received rendered respect returned Richard Waverley romance Rose scene Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Everard sister sport sword tale Tewin thou thought tion Tully-Veolan Vich Ian Vohr WAVERLEY NOVELS Waverley-Honour Waverley's Whig wild young youth
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Side 311 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here ; My heart's in the Highlands...
Side 115 - ... he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord JESUS CHRIST upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this ef*fect, (for he was not confident as to the very words;) " Oh sinner, did I suffer...
Side 86 - ... would have my 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
Side 55 - 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, Staunch as hound and fleet as hawk; Think of this, and rise with day Gentle lords and ladies gay!
Side 54 - 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,
Side 161 - 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...
Side 28 - 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 -
Side 54 - 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, " 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,
Side 257 - Mossy banks of turf were broken and interrupted by huge fragments of rock, and decorated with trees and shrubs, some of which had been planted under the direction of Flora, but so cautiously, that they added to the grace, without diminishing the romantic wildness of the scene.
Side 85 - Waverley, a Romance from the German," what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and dark lanterns ? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a