The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 |
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... Scot- land has of late become peculiarly interesting . It is not much above half a century since it was other- wise . The inhabitants of the Lowlands of Scot- land were , indeed , aware that there existed , in the extremity of the ...
... Scot- land has of late become peculiarly interesting . It is not much above half a century since it was other- wise . The inhabitants of the Lowlands of Scot- land were , indeed , aware that there existed , in the extremity of the ...
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... Scottish Highlanders were , like the Welsh , the unmixed aboriginal natives of the island , speak- ing a dialect of the ancient Celtic , once the language of all Britain , and being the descendants of those tribes which had been driven ...
... Scottish Highlanders were , like the Welsh , the unmixed aboriginal natives of the island , speak- ing a dialect of the ancient Celtic , once the language of all Britain , and being the descendants of those tribes which had been driven ...
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... Scottish law by the name of Steel - bow , he furnished such a portion of the ground with stock and seed - corn , on condition of receiving from the tenant or actual labourer a moiety of the profits . In either case , the dependence of ...
... Scottish law by the name of Steel - bow , he furnished such a portion of the ground with stock and seed - corn , on condition of receiving from the tenant or actual labourer a moiety of the profits . In either case , the dependence of ...
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... Scottish court , and often obtained from the monarchs grants of lands and jurisdictions , which , at convenient ... Scot- tish kings sometimes strove to make effectual , even among their fastnesses . And although these efforts , owing to ...
... Scottish court , and often obtained from the monarchs grants of lands and jurisdictions , which , at convenient ... Scot- tish kings sometimes strove to make effectual , even among their fastnesses . And although these efforts , owing to ...
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... Scottish crown . Upon the accession of James I. the power of the northern chiefs was somewhat restricted , and many royal castles , particularly that of Inverness , were rebuilt and garrisoned . The King himself took a journey to the ...
... Scottish crown . Upon the accession of James I. the power of the northern chiefs was somewhat restricted , and many royal castles , particularly that of Inverness , were rebuilt and garrisoned . The King himself took a journey to the ...
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Էջ 175 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Էջ 109 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth...
Էջ 328 - Habitus corporum varii, atque ex eo argumenta. Namque rutilae Caledoniam habitantium comae, magni artus Germanicam originem asseverant. Silurum colorati vultus, torti plerumque crines, et posita contra Hispania Iberos veteres traiecisse easque sedes occupasse fidem faciunt. Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Էջ 114 - Knipp took us all in. and brought to us Nelly, a most pretty woman, who acted the great part of 'Coelia' to-day very fine, and did it pretty well; I kissed her. and so did my wife, and a mighty pretty soul she is.
Էջ 278 - ... it is the pert, superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent of each other ; and, in science, so many natural miracles, as it were, have been brought to light, — such as the fall of stones from meteors in the atmosphere, the disarming a...
Էջ 243 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Էջ 111 - Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Էջ 205 - But fill'd, in elder time, the historic page. There, Shakespeare's self, with every garland crown'd, Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen, In musing hour, his wayward Sisters found, And with their terrors drest the magic scene. From them he sung, when, 'mid his bold design, Before the Scot, afflicted, and aghast ! The shadowy kings of Banquo's fated line Through the dark cave in gleamy pageant pass'd.
Էջ 4 - Walpole, paints an indifference yet more ominous to the public cause than the general panic : — " the common people in town at least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here...
Էջ 140 - Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner — viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese.