The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 |
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... leave of us in one character , and then suddenly popping out upon us in another , we cannot pretend to guess without knowing more of his personal reasons for preser- ving so strict an incognito than has hitherto reached us . We can ...
... leave of us in one character , and then suddenly popping out upon us in another , we cannot pretend to guess without knowing more of his personal reasons for preser- ving so strict an incognito than has hitherto reached us . We can ...
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... leave briefly to notice a few circumstances connected with its predecessors . Our author has told us it was his object to pre- sent a succession of scenes and characters connected with Scotland in its past and present state , and we ...
... leave briefly to notice a few circumstances connected with its predecessors . Our author has told us it was his object to pre- sent a succession of scenes and characters connected with Scotland in its past and present state , and we ...
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... leaves his daughter full authority to follow her own inclinations - the Soli- tary seeks some more distant and unknown cell , and Earnscliff and Hobbie marry the objects of their affection , and are happily settled for life . Such is ...
... leaves his daughter full authority to follow her own inclinations - the Soli- tary seeks some more distant and unknown cell , and Earnscliff and Hobbie marry the objects of their affection , and are happily settled for life . Such is ...
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... leave her ; and the appearance of abor- tion on his offering to go from her . " Now as there was a private understanding between Morton and the fair Edith Bellenden , the former is induced , at the request of the young lady , to use his ...
... leave her ; and the appearance of abor- tion on his offering to go from her . " Now as there was a private understanding between Morton and the fair Edith Bellenden , the former is induced , at the request of the young lady , to use his ...
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... leave you to the charge of the constable and ducking - stool . In the mean time , I must necessarily carry off this young man to head- quarters . I cannot answer to my commanding - officer to leave him in a house where I have heard so ...
... leave you to the charge of the constable and ducking - stool . In the mean time , I must necessarily carry off this young man to head- quarters . I cannot answer to my commanding - officer to leave him in a house where I have heard so ...
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Էջ 87 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.
Էջ 113 - Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV.
Էջ 332 - I leave to my friend, Mr. John Home, of Kilduff, ten dozen of my old claret, at his choice ; and one single bottle of that other liquor called port. I also leave to him six dozen of port, provided that he attests under his hand, signed John Hume, that he has himself alone finished that bottle at two sittings. By this concession, he will at once terminate the only two differences that ever arose between us concerning temporal matters.
Էջ 198 - Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are by Whigs — and generally by Tories too. Because he had humour, he was supposed to have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when any one had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil...
Էջ 135 - They hooted a third time, advancing with their cross-bows presented, and began to shoot. The English archers then advanced one step forward, and shot their arrows with such force and quickness, that it seemed as if it snowed.
Էջ 136 - return to him and to them that sent you hither, and say to them that they send no more to me for...
Էջ 30 - But wherever they existed, Old Mortality was sure to visit them when his annual round brought them within his reach. In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned.
Էջ 140 - Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive; with a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy : with which are now for the First Time interspersed, Varieties, incidental to the Principal Matter, in Prose and Verse.
Էջ 133 - We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deed of arms; we have more need of rest.
Էջ 237 - ... as at the saddest spectacle they had ever seen. When he had led us a mile without the town, he then declared what further he had in commission; that we should not dare to meet any more above three in number; and that against eight...