Waverley Novels: Woodstock. The Highland widow. The two drovers. The surgeon's daughterR. Cadell, 1846 |
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Walter Scott. WAVERLEY NOVELS YOLX MDCCC XLVI . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME TEN . WOODSTOCK . I. EDINBURGH : ROBERT CADELL . LONDON ; HOULSTON & STONEMAN . THE JUST DEVIL OF WOODSTOCK . Sir Walter Scott.
Walter Scott. WAVERLEY NOVELS YOLX MDCCC XLVI . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME TEN . WOODSTOCK . I. EDINBURGH : ROBERT CADELL . LONDON ; HOULSTON & STONEMAN . THE JUST DEVIL OF WOODSTOCK . Sir Walter Scott.
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... Devil of Woodstock , famous in the world , in the year 1649 , and never accounted for , or at all understood to this time . " The teller of this " genuine history " proceeds verbatim as follows : " Some original papers having lately ...
... Devil of Woodstock , famous in the world , in the year 1649 , and never accounted for , or at all understood to this time . " The teller of this " genuine history " proceeds verbatim as follows : " Some original papers having lately ...
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... devils worse than itself . One of the servants now lighted a large candle and set it in the doorway between the two chambers , to see what passed ; and as he watched it , he plainly saw a hoof striking the candle and candlestick into ...
... devils worse than itself . One of the servants now lighted a large candle and set it in the doorway between the two chambers , to see what passed ; and as he watched it , he plainly saw a hoof striking the candle and candlestick into ...
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... Devil of Woodstock , " in which we find it , under the author's own hand , that he , Joseph Collins , commonly called Funny Joe , was himself this very devil ; —that , under the feigned name of Giles Sharp , he hired himself as a ...
... Devil of Woodstock , " in which we find it , under the author's own hand , that he , Joseph Collins , commonly called Funny Joe , was himself this very devil ; —that , under the feigned name of Giles Sharp , he hired himself as a ...
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... DEVIL OF WOODSTOCK. APPENDIX . No. I. THE WOODSTOCK SCUFFLE ; OR , [ Printed in the yeer 1649. 4to . ] IT were a wonder if one unites , And not of wonders and strange sights ; For ev'ry where such things affrights Poore people , That men ...
... DEVIL OF WOODSTOCK. APPENDIX . No. I. THE WOODSTOCK SCUFFLE ; OR , [ Printed in the yeer 1649. 4to . ] IT were a wonder if one unites , And not of wonders and strange sights ; For ev'ry where such things affrights Poore people , That men ...
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