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Mr. Bradwardine's minute narratives and powerful memory supplied to Waverley fresh subjects of the kind upon which his fancy loved to labour, and opened to him a new mine of incident and of character.
'Must I fight in a madman's quarrel? 'Then give up now, and forever, all pretensions to Miss Bradwardine's hand. 'What title have you, cried Waverley, utterly losing command of himself 'what title have you, or any man living, to dictate such terms to me? And he also drew his sword.
When he was recalled, after the space of nearly half an hour, he found that, by a strong effort, Miss Mac-Ivor had greatly composed herself. It was then he ventured to urge Miss Bradwardine's claim to be considered as an adopted sister, and empowered to assist her plans for the future. 'I have had a letter from my dear Rose, she replied, 'to the same purpose.
Cambridge had no moral genius like Grosseteste to impress his strong personality upon the movement which the friars stirred, no commanding intellect like that of Roger Bacon to attract and dazzle and lead into quite new regions of thought the ardent and eager spirits who felt that a new era had begun; no Occam or Duns Scotus or Bradwardine; no John Wielif to kindle a new flame say, rather, to take up the torch which had dropped from Bradwardine's hand, and continue the race which the others had run so well.
'Must I fight in a madman's quarrel? 'Then give up now, and forever, all pretensions to Miss Bradwardine's hand. 'What title have you, cried Waverley, utterly losing command of himself 'what title have you, or any man living, to dictate such terms to me? And he also drew his sword.
The handwriting becomes closer and smaller; from thirty-eight lines to the page in "Waverley," he advances to between fifty and sixty in "Ivanhoe." The few alterations are usually additions. For example, a fresh pedantry of the Baron of Bradwardine's is occasionally set down on the opposite page. Nothing can be less like the method of Flaubert or the method of Mr.
'Must I fight in a madman's quarrel? 'Then give up now, and forever, all pretensions to Miss Bradwardine's hand. 'What title have you, cried Waverley, utterly losing command of himself 'what title have you, or any man living, to dictate such terms to me? And he also drew his sword.
He was made, by dint of smirking and nodding on the part of the lady of the house, to sit next Miss Bradwardine at dinner, to be Miss Bradwardine's partner at cards.
Mr. Bradwardine's minute narratives and powerful memory supplied to Waverley fresh subjects of the kind upon which his fancy loved to labour, and opened to him a new mine of incident and of character.
The graves of the slain are still to be seen in that little corri, or bottom, on the opposite side of the burn if your eyes are good, you may see the green specks among the heather. See, there is an earn, which you Southrons call an eagle you have no such birds as that in England he is going to fetch his supper from the Laird of Bradwardine's braes, but I'll send a slug after him.
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