Rob Roy. Вальтер Скотт

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Автор произведения Вальтер Скотт
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      ROB ROY

      Sir Walter Scott

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

      Volume 1

      Advertisement to the First Edition

      Introduction – (1829)

      Appendix to Introduction

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Volume 2

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Postscript.

       State Paper Office.

       Notes to Rob Roy.

       Note A. – The Grey Stone of MacGregor.

       Note B. – Dugald Ciar Mhor.

       Note C. – The Loch Lomond Expedition.

       Note D. – Author’s Expedition against the maclarens.

       Note E. – Allan Breck Stewart.

       Note F. – The Abbess of Wilton.

       Note G. – Mons Meg.

       Note H. – Fairy Superstition.

       Note I. – Clachan of Aberfoil.

       Classic Literature: Words and Phrases Adapted from the collins english dictionary

       About the Author

       History of Collins

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       VOLUME ONE

      For why? Because the good old rule

      Sufficeth them; the simple plan,

      That they should take who have the power,

      And they should keep who can.

      Rob Roy’s Grave – Wordsworth

       ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION

      When the Editor of the following volumes published, about two years since, the work called the “Antiquary,” he announced that he was, for the last time, intruding upon the public in his present capacity. He might shelter himself under the plea that every anonymous writer is, like the celebrated Junius, only a phantom, and that therefore, although an apparition, of a more benign, as well as much meaner description, he cannot be bound to plead to a charge of inconsistency. A better apology may be found in the imitating the confession of honest Benedict, that, when he said he would die a bachelor, he did not think he should live to be married. The best of all would be, if, as has eminently happened in the case of some distinguished contemporaries, the merit of the work should, in the reader’s estimation, form an excuse for the Author’s breach of promise. Without presuming to hope that this may prove the case, it is only further necessary to mention, that his resolution, like that of Benedict, fell a sacrifice, to temptation at least, if not to stratagem.

      These were of course so numerous, that, besides the suppression of names, and of incidents approaching too much to reality, the work may in a great measure be, said to be new written. Several anachronisms have probably crept in during the course of these changes; and the mottoes for the Chapters have been selected without any reference to the supposed date of the incidents. For these, of course, the Editor is responsible. Some others occurred in the original materials, but they are of little consequence. In point of minute accuracy, it may be stated, that the bridge over the Forth, or rather the Avondhu (or Black River), near the hamlet of Aberfoil, had not an existence thirty years ago. It does not, however, become the Editor to be the first to point out these errors; and he takes this public opportunity to thank the unknown and nameless correspondent, to whom the reader will owe the principal share of any amusement which