The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Հատոր 4R. Cadell, 1843 |
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... circumstances . These mutations in manners and in morals have been gradual indeed in their pro- gress , but most important in their results , and they have been introduced into Scotland within the last half century . Every sketch of ...
... circumstances . These mutations in manners and in morals have been gradual indeed in their pro- gress , but most important in their results , and they have been introduced into Scotland within the last half century . Every sketch of ...
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... wringing histories that has ever been written . The very circumstances which palliate the errors of the sufferers , in whose distress we interest ourselves , - - point out to the reader that there is HENRY MACKENZIE . 15.
... wringing histories that has ever been written . The very circumstances which palliate the errors of the sufferers , in whose distress we interest ourselves , - - point out to the reader that there is HENRY MACKENZIE . 15.
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... circumstances as those who , in that sad hour , deserted her , are now as un- What were then willing to hear of as she is to relate them . her sentiments in regard to the summer friends , who so little a sold . Mrs Smith never deserted ...
... circumstances as those who , in that sad hour , deserted her , are now as un- What were then willing to hear of as she is to relate them . her sentiments in regard to the summer friends , who so little a sold . Mrs Smith never deserted ...
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... circumstances relating to them have already been amply detailed in the volume of the Public Characters already referred to ; they were remained under the care of their maternal uncle . Her sensa tions on this occasion are thus described ...
... circumstances relating to them have already been amply detailed in the volume of the Public Characters already referred to ; they were remained under the care of their maternal uncle . Her sensa tions on this occasion are thus described ...
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... circumstance , lest the book should be charged to her account . I am equally obliged by her intention , though the negligence of her bookseller has defeated it . Manon seems to be very ably translated ; but of this I can be no adequate ...
... circumstance , lest the book should be charged to her account . I am equally obliged by her intention , though the negligence of her bookseller has defeated it . Manon seems to be very ably translated ; but of this I can be no adequate ...
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Էջ 363 - 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 303 - I saw him again yesterday, and was surprised to find the levee-room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This Sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news; he walks about, and speaks to everybody. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity, and reads his answers to addresses well...
Էջ 348 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The boy was sprung to manhood : in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams ; he was girt With strange and dusky aspects ; he was not Himself like what he had been : on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer ! There was a mass of many image?
Էջ 374 - They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them...
Էջ 272 - Let it alone now, and do it when I am gone; but you must be sure to do it"; which was one of the last things she enjoined her at parting. And so she promised her. Then Mrs. Veal asked for Mrs. Bargrave's daughter; she said she was not at home. "But if you have a mind to see her," says Mrs. Bargrave, "I'll send for her." "Do,
Էջ 363 - Or friends by him self.banish'd : for his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary, and chose For its own cruel sacrifice the kind, 'Gainst whom he raged with fury strange and blind.
Էջ 367 - My daughter ! with thy name this song begun — My daughter ! with thy name thus much shall end — I see thee not, — I hear thee not, — but none Can be so wrapt in thee ; thou art the friend To whom the shadows of far years extend : Albeit my brow thou never...
Էջ 217 - 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 328 - 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...
Էջ 274 - ... own mouth. I should have told you before that Mrs. Veal told Mrs. Bargrave that her sister and brotherin-law were just come down from London to see her. Says Mrs. Bargrave, "How came you to order matters so strangely?" "It could not be helped,