The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Հատոր 4R. Cadell, 1843 |
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... favour of the Ministerial candidate . Mrs Smith had not at that time caught the contagion which spread so widely a few years afterwards , and very willingly lent her pen in support of the cause ; and among the many efforts which were ...
... favour of the Ministerial candidate . Mrs Smith had not at that time caught the contagion which spread so widely a few years afterwards , and very willingly lent her pen in support of the cause ; and among the many efforts which were ...
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... favour of her family , and brought a host of literary ladies in array against her , armed with all the malignity which envy could inspire ! " She had been in habits of intimacy for the two or three last years with Mr Hayley , ( as well ...
... favour of her family , and brought a host of literary ladies in array against her , armed with all the malignity which envy could inspire ! " She had been in habits of intimacy for the two or three last years with Mr Hayley , ( as well ...
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... favoured youth is expected to be " A knight of love , who never broke a vow ; " so the lady , on her side , must be not only true of promise , but , under every temptation , faithful to her first affection . So much is this the case ...
... favoured youth is expected to be " A knight of love , who never broke a vow ; " so the lady , on her side , must be not only true of promise , but , under every temptation , faithful to her first affection . So much is this the case ...
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... favour of the capricious Henry VIII . by facilitating his divorce from Queen Catharine , and who fell by procuring his union with Anne of Cleves . While Cromwell was yet in the ascent of his grandeur , Sadler acquired so much influence ...
... favour of the capricious Henry VIII . by facilitating his divorce from Queen Catharine , and who fell by procuring his union with Anne of Cleves . While Cromwell was yet in the ascent of his grandeur , Sadler acquired so much influence ...
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... Master Cromwell , be thes gevin . " I thynke Richard Crumwell . . . to London now at this tyme , and will be at Cilney before ; then ye may send your Ralph Sadler's favour with Lord Cromwell , and the trust SIR RALPH SADLER . 73.
... Master Cromwell , be thes gevin . " I thynke Richard Crumwell . . . to London now at this tyme , and will be at Cilney before ; then ye may send your Ralph Sadler's favour with Lord Cromwell , and the trust SIR RALPH SADLER . 73.
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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,