Category: Historical Novels
THIS EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, THE BORDER EDITION, IS DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHER TO THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD AND HER CHILDREN, WALTER, MARY, MICHAEL, ALICE, MALCOLM, MARGARET, AND HERBERT, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE AUTHOR.
We know not when we sleep nor when we wake. Visions distinct and perfect cross our eye, Which to the slumberer seem realities; And while they waked, some men have seen such sigh...
18. CHAPTER XVI.The Governor of La Ferette stood on the battlements of the eastern entrance-tower of his fortress, and looked out on the road to Bâle, when first the vanguard of the Swiss missi...
20. CHAPTER XVIII.A cottage or two on the side of the river, beside which were moored one or two fishing-boats, showed the pious Hans had successors in his profession as a boatman. The river, whi...
5. CHAPTER III.Cursed be the gold and silver, which persuade Weak man to follow far fatiguing trade. The lily, peace, outshines the silver store, And life is dearer than the golden ore. Yet mo...
2. VOLUME I.THIS EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, THE BORDER EDITION, IS DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHER TO THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD AND HER CHILDREN, WALTER, MARY, MICHAEL, ALIC...
17. CHAPTER XV.The dungeon in which the younger Philipson was immured was one of those gloomy caverns which cry shame on the inhumanity of our ancestors. They seem to have been almost insensib...
19. CHAPTER XVII.The English merchant was now much consulted by the Swiss Commissioners in all their motions. He exhorted them to proceed with all despatch on their journey, so as to carry to th...
4. CHAPTER II.After surveying the desolate scene as accurately as the stormy state of the atmosphere would permit, the younger of the travellers observed, "In any other country, I should say...
13. CHAPTER XI.These be the adept's doctrines--every element Is peopled with its separate race of spirits. The airy Sylphs on the blue ether float; Deep in the earthy cavern skulks the Gnome;...
15. CHAPTER XIII.The enmity and discord, which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your Duke To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,-- Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives, Ha...
16. CHAPTER XIV."Merchants? 'Sdeath, villain! pedlars you mean. Heard ever man of English merchants tramping it on foot, with no more baggage than one mule can manage to carry? They must be beg...
7. CHAPTER V.I was one Who loved the greenwood bank and lowing herd, The russet prize, the lowly peasant's life, Season'd with sweet content, more than the halls Where revellers feast to fev...
3. CHAPTER I.The course of four centuries has well-nigh elapsed since the series of events which are related in the following chapters took place on the Continent. The records which containe...
11. CHAPTER IX.The first occupation of our travellers was to find the means of crossing the moat, and they were not long of discovering the _tête de pont_ on which the drawbridge, when lowered...
9. CHAPTER VII.Let him who will not proffer'd peace receive, Be sated with the plagues which war can give; And well thy hatred of the peace is known, If now thy soul reject the friendship show...
14. CHAPTER XII.There was a short silence after the Bernese had concluded his singular tale. Arthur Philipson's attention had been gradually and intensely attracted by a story which was too muc...
8. CHAPTER VI.When we two meet, we meet like rushing torrents; Like warring winds, like flames from various points, That mate each other's fury--there is naught Of elemental strife, were fien...
6. CHAPTER IV.And now the well-known bow the master bore, Turn'd on all sides, and view'd it o'er and o'er; Whilst some deriding, "How he turns the bow! Some other like it sure the man must k...
10. CHAPTER VIII.They saw that city, welcoming the Rhine, As from his mountain heritage he bursts, As purposed proud Orgetorix of yore, Leaving the desert region of the hills, To lord it o'er th...
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