Waverly Novels: RedgauntletA. and C. Black, 1851 |
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... manners , or tracing the characters , of the persons concerned in the real story . Indeed , I may here state generally , that al- though I have deemed historical personages free subjects of delineation , I have never on any occasion ...
... manners , or tracing the characters , of the persons concerned in the real story . Indeed , I may here state generally , that al- though I have deemed historical personages free subjects of delineation , I have never on any occasion ...
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... manners , had been engaged actively in the troubles of 1745. As he charged at the battle of Preston with his clan , the Stewarts of Appine , he saw an officer of the opposite army standing alone by a battery of four cannon , of which he ...
... manners , had been engaged actively in the troubles of 1745. As he charged at the battle of Preston with his clan , the Stewarts of Appine , he saw an officer of the opposite army standing alone by a battery of four cannon , of which he ...
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... manner in which it is told in Waverley . This incident , with several other circum- stances illustrating the Tales in question , was communicated by me to my late lamented friend , William Erskine , ( a Scottish Judge , by the title of ...
... manner in which it is told in Waverley . This incident , with several other circum- stances illustrating the Tales in question , was communicated by me to my late lamented friend , William Erskine , ( a Scottish Judge , by the title of ...
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... speaking simple and natural , yet full of vivacity and point ; and he has the art , if it be art , of relaxing into a certain homeliness of manner , without losing one particle of his dignity . He thus takes off some xxxviv APPENDIX TO.
... speaking simple and natural , yet full of vivacity and point ; and he has the art , if it be art , of relaxing into a certain homeliness of manner , without losing one particle of his dignity . He thus takes off some xxxviv APPENDIX TO.
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... - ing , which his late Royal Highness had conde- scended in a particular manner to patronise , that they were called on to drink to his memory . To that charity he had often sacrificed his time , and INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
... - ing , which his late Royal Highness had conde- scended in a particular manner to patronise , that they were called on to drink to his memory . To that charity he had often sacrificed his time , and INTRODUCTION . xxxvii.
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lix ページ - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope"— we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
xxxi ページ - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
lxviii ページ - And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh, what were man ? A world without a sun.
131 ページ - Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade.
liv ページ - Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed ? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
109 ページ - ... For, supposing me to be her son, and that she was not married till the year after my birth, I must have been her natural son." A young lady of quality, who was present, very handsomely said, " Might not the son have justified the fault." — My friend was much flattered by this compliment, which he never forgot. When in more than ordinary spirits, and talking of his journey in Scotland, he has called to me, " Boswell, what was it that the young lady of quality said of me at Sir Alexander Dick's...
lviii ページ - The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again towards childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
47 ページ - I wish to God this house had been your own: "Pity! to build, without a son or wife: "Why, you'll enjoy it only all your life.