Waverly Novels: Waverley. 1857

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Ticknor and Fields, 1864

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Página 17 - It is the will of God — it is the will of God...
Página 41 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 110 - The tears I shed must ever fall! I weep not for an absent swain, For time may happier hours recall, And parted lovers meet again. " I weep not for the silent dead; Their pains are past, their sorrows o'er, And those that loved their steps must tread, When death shall join to part no more.
Página 92 - Royal brother,' returned Richard, 'recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. He forgets neither friend nor foe, remembers, and with accuracy, both benefit and injury. He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation ; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor...

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