The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Հատոր 4R. Cadell, 1843 |
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... expression is remarkable in the former , as an extravagant , burlesque , and ludicrous strain of conception and language cha- racterises the latter . The celebrated passage , where the tear of the recording Angel blots the profane oath ...
... expression is remarkable in the former , as an extravagant , burlesque , and ludicrous strain of conception and language cha- racterises the latter . The celebrated passage , where the tear of the recording Angel blots the profane oath ...
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... expression of the artists ; and like the single straggling bough , which shades the face of his sleeping veteran , just introduced to relieve his principal object , but not to eclipse it . It cannot be termed an exception to this rule ...
... expression of the artists ; and like the single straggling bough , which shades the face of his sleeping veteran , just introduced to relieve his principal object , but not to eclipse it . It cannot be termed an exception to this rule ...
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... expressions , which literary ladies are often distinguished by , but always expressed herself with the utmost sim- plicity . She composed with greater facility than others could transcribe , and never would avail her- self of an ...
... expressions , which literary ladies are often distinguished by , but always expressed herself with the utmost sim- plicity . She composed with greater facility than others could transcribe , and never would avail her- self of an ...
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... expression of her intentions with respect to him , is a masterpiece of diplomacy , equal to what she of Tudor could have composed on a similar occasion . The love of the young people thrown together so naturally , its innocence and ...
... expression of her intentions with respect to him , is a masterpiece of diplomacy , equal to what she of Tudor could have composed on a similar occasion . The love of the young people thrown together so naturally , its innocence and ...
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... expressions of the national abhorrence of an English match : " Our nation being a stout nation , will never agree to have an Englishman to be King of Scotland ; and though the whole nobility of the realm would consent to it , the common ...
... expressions of the national abhorrence of an English match : " Our nation being a stout nation , will never agree to have an Englishman to be King of Scotland ; and though the whole nobility of the realm would consent to it , the common ...
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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,