 THE present Work completes a series of fictitious narratives, intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. WAVERLEY embraced the age of our fathers, GUY MANNERING that of our own youth, and the ANTIQUARY refers to the last...  The Antiquary - Pagina 3door Walter Scott - 1816Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 686 pagina’s
...fictitious narratives intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. Waverley embraced the age of our fathers, Guy Mannering that of our own youth, nnd the Antiquary refers to the last ten years of the eighteenth century.' (pv) This may, in an occult... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 880 pagina’s
...ace of our fathers, GUY iNXEBixG that of our own youth, ana the ANTIQUARY refers in IK-' lut ten yean of the eighteenth century. I have, in the two last...my principal personages in the class of society who arc the lost to feel the influence of that jRoera] polish which assimilates to each other tlie manners... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 368 pagina’s
...illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. WAVERLEY embraced the age of our fathers, GUT MANNERING that of our own youth, and the ANTIQUARY...narratives especially, sought my principal personages hi the class of society who are the last to feel the influence of that general polish which assimilates... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 358 pagina’s
...illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. WAVERLEY embraced the age of our fathers, GUT MANNERING that of our own youth, and the ANTIQUARY...ten years of the eighteenth century. I have, in the last two narratives especially, sought my principal personages in the class of society who are the... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 pagina’s
...narratives intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods: ' Waverley ' embraced the age of our fathers ; ' Guy Mannering,'...to the last ten years of the eighteenth century." The plot is defective, chiefly in the melodramatic incidents which connect Major Lovel with the history... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 462 pagina’s
...fictitious narratives, intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. WAVERLEY embraced the age of our fathers, GUY MANNERING that...my principal personages in the class of society who arc the last to feel the influence of that general polish which assimilates to each other the manners... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 682 pagina’s
...the manners of Scotland at three different periods. WAVERL«T embraced the age of our fathers, GUT MANNERING, that of our own youth, and the ANTIQUARY...to the last ten years of the eighteenth century. I hare, in the two last narratives especially, sought my principal personages in the class of society... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1436 pagina’s
...narratives intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. " Waverley " embraces the age of our fathers, " Guy Mannering" that of our...to the last ten years of the eighteenth century.' And in the ' General Preface' of 1829 he says, ' I felt that something might be attempted for my own... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 956 pagina’s
...the age of our fathers, GVY MANNERIKU that of our oien youth, and ilie ANTIQUARY refers to the lust ten years of the eighteenth century. I have, in the...principal personages in the class of society who are tiie lust to feel the influence of that general polish which assimilates to each other (lie manners... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - 1888 - 954 pagina’s
...three different periods. " Waverley embraced the age " of our fathers" (writes Sir W. Scott in 1829), " Guy Mannering that of our " own youth, and the Antiquary refers to the last ten years of the 1 8th Century." This Novel was not so well received at first as its two predecessors, but it soon rose... | |
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