Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since ...E.T. Scott, 1821 |
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answered arms army auld baillie Baron of Bradwardine battle battle of Culloden caliga called Callum Beg Carlisle Carlisle Castle cavalry CHAPTER chevalier chief chieftain circumstances clan Colonel Talbot command Common Moor dear Donald Bean dragoons Duchran Edinburgh Edward English Ensign Maccombich Evan Dhu eyes favour feelings Fergus Mac-Ivor Fergus's Flockhart Flora Mac-Ivor followed frae gentleman Glennaquoich hand head heard hero high sheriff Highlanders honour hope horse house of Stuart Ivor Jacobites Janet Lady Emily laird leave Lero look Macwheeble military mind Miss Bradwardine never night Nosebag officer party person poor prince prisoner puir racter rank regiment rendered Rose Bradwardine royal highness Scotland seemed Sir Everard soldiers spirit Spontoon Stanley sword tartan thing thought tion took troop Tully-Veolan turned Veolan verley Vich Ian Vohr Waver Waverley Waverley-Honour Waverley's weel whilk wish words young
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243 ページ - 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...
116 ページ - 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.
208 ページ - 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
245 ページ - 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.
243 ページ - 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,...
239 ページ - 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.
144 ページ - 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.