The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Հատոր 4R. Cadell, 1843 |
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... attending old age , Mr Mackenzie expired on the evening of Friday the 14th of January , 1831 , in his 86th year . - Annual Biography , 1832.1 CHARLOTTE SMITH . THIS tribute of affection to one of HENRY MACKENZIE . 19 Memoir of HENRY ...
... attending old age , Mr Mackenzie expired on the evening of Friday the 14th of January , 1831 , in his 86th year . - Annual Biography , 1832.1 CHARLOTTE SMITH . THIS tribute of affection to one of HENRY MACKENZIE . 19 Memoir of HENRY ...
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... attended by an eminent dancing - master , when such a mere infant , that she was taught her first steps on a dining - table . She never recollected the time when she could not read , and was in the habit of reading every book that fell ...
... attended by an eminent dancing - master , when such a mere infant , that she was taught her first steps on a dining - table . She never recollected the time when she could not read , and was in the habit of reading every book that fell ...
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... attend her at home ; but very little advantage could have been derived from their instructions , for she was at that early age intro- duced into society , frequented all public places with her family , and her appearance and manners ...
... attend her at home ; but very little advantage could have been derived from their instructions , for she was at that early age intro- duced into society , frequented all public places with her family , and her appearance and manners ...
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... attend , And with thy plaintive voice relieved me . And as the time ere long must come When I lie silent in the tomb , Thou wilt preserve these mournful pages ; For gentle minds will love my verse , And Pity shall my strains rehearse ...
... attend , And with thy plaintive voice relieved me . And as the time ere long must come When I lie silent in the tomb , Thou wilt preserve these mournful pages ; For gentle minds will love my verse , And Pity shall my strains rehearse ...
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... attending it , helped to complete her disgust , and determined her to rely in future on her own resources , and to employ her- self in original composition . " In the spring of 1786 , her eldest son was appointed to a writership in ...
... attending it , helped to complete her disgust , and determined her to rely in future on her own resources , and to employ her- self in original composition . " In the spring of 1786 , her eldest son was appointed to a writership in ...
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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,