The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelistsR.Cadell, 1834 |
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... soon beset , Annoy'd and wearied past endurance , With drawbacks , bottomry , insurance , With samples drawn , and tare and tret ; With Scrip , and Omnium , and Consols , With City Feasts and Lord Mayors ' Balls , Scenes that to me no ...
... soon beset , Annoy'd and wearied past endurance , With drawbacks , bottomry , insurance , With samples drawn , and tare and tret ; With Scrip , and Omnium , and Consols , With City Feasts and Lord Mayors ' Balls , Scenes that to me no ...
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... soon awakened from her dream of happiness.1 1 [ " In consequence of so many cares , and a large establish- ment , ( for Mr Smith launched into farming with more avidity than judgment , and purchased other parcels of land , ) her eye ...
... soon awakened from her dream of happiness.1 1 [ " In consequence of so many cares , and a large establish- ment , ( for Mr Smith launched into farming with more avidity than judgment , and purchased other parcels of land , ) her eye ...
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... soon called for ; while the profits of the work , in its progress , relieved the writer from those solicitudes for her children which had weighed down her spirits , and enabled her to look forward with fortitude to the period which ...
... soon called for ; while the profits of the work , in its progress , relieved the writer from those solicitudes for her children which had weighed down her spirits , and enabled her to look forward with fortitude to the period which ...
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... soon rejoined him with all her family . Mr Smith in the meantime had been in- duced , with his usual indiscretion , to engage a large chateau twelve Norman miles from Dieppe . The inconvenience of the situation , so far from a market ...
... soon rejoined him with all her family . Mr Smith in the meantime had been in- duced , with his usual indiscretion , to engage a large chateau twelve Norman miles from Dieppe . The inconvenience of the situation , so far from a market ...
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... soon restored to her , without having sustained the slight- est ill consequence . It was during her seclusion in this forlorn residence , and when she had no power of selection , that , for the amusement of herself and some English ...
... soon restored to her , without having sustained the slight- est ill consequence . It was during her seclusion in this forlorn residence , and when she had no power of selection , that , for the amusement of herself and some English ...
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Էջ 373 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Էջ 384 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed W my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Էջ 228 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Էջ 243 - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Էջ 224 - WHEREVER .God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there...
Էջ 276 - At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves.
Էջ 375 - For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more...
Էջ 377 - O'er the sea And from the mountains where I now respire, Fain would I waft such blessing upon thee, As, with a sigh, I deem thou might'st have been to me.
Էջ 227 - If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished th'e nation and the preacher be hanged, we should soon see an end of the tale. They would all come to church, and one age would make us all one again.
Էջ 338 - Harold, nor any of the most beautiful of Byron's earlier tales, contain more exquisite morsels of poetry than are to be found scattered through the cantos of Don Juan, amidst verses which the author appears to have thrown off with an effort as spontaneous as that of a tree resigning its leaves to the wind.