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The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Том 1 Walter Scott Повний перегляд - 1844 |
The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Том 1 Walter Scott Повний перегляд - 1846 |
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Сторінка 11 - 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.
Сторінка 3 - 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, long continued to pride...
Сторінка 21 - ... people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land or even those of God and nature.
Сторінка 22 - ... bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Сторінка 24 - ... their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs '—Ride your ways, Ellangowan. — Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs— look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up— not that...
Сторінка 42 - I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life, that you cannot look back to those to whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection...
Сторінка 31 - I do not invite my fair readers, whose sex and impatience give them the greatest right to complain of these circumstances, into a flying chariot drawn by hippogriffs, or moved by enchantment.
Сторінка 6 - And he will refit the old library in the most exquisite Gothic taste, and garnish its shelves with the rarest and most valuable volumes; and he will draw plans and landscapes, and write verses, and rear temples, and dig grottoes; and he will stand in a clear summer night in the colonnade before the hall, and gaze on the deer as they stray in the moonlight, or lie shadowed by the boughs of the huge old fantastic oaks; and he will repeat verses to his beautiful wife, who will hang upon his arm; —...
Сторінка 81 - Something there was of an antiquated turn of argument and metaphor, but it only served to give zest and peculiarity to the style of elocution. The sermon was not read — a scrap of paper containing the heads of the discourse was occasionally referred to, and the enunciation, which at first seemed imperfect and embarrassed, became, as the preacher warmed in his progress, animated and distinct ; and although the discourse could not be quoted as a correct specimen of pulpit eloquence, yet Mannering...
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| Назва | The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Том 2 The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Sir Walter Scott |
| Автор | Sir Walter Scott |
| Видавець | Carey & Hart, 1846 |
| Оригінал із | Гарвардський університет |
| Оцифровано | 28 лип. 2007 |
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