Waverley Novels, Band 1

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Ticknor and Fields, 1864
 

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Seite 308 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.
Seite 30 - The creatures see of flood and field, And those that travel on the wind ; With them no strife can last ; they live In peace, and peace of mind.
Seite 113 - I begin shrewdly to suspect their familiarity; and the young man of a terrible taint, poetry! with which idle disease if he be infected, there's no hope of him in a state-course.
Seite 30 - Burn all the statutes and their shelves : They stir us up against our kind ; And worse, against ourselves. We have a passion — make a law. Too false to guide us or control ! And for the law itself we fight In bitterness of soul.
Seite 159 - that is," said she, correcting herself, " I should be rather like the wild hawk, who, barred the free exercise of his soar through heaven, will dash himself to pieces against the bars of his cage.

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