The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelistsR.Cadell, 1834 |
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... ranks him , a biographer may with delicacy trace his personal character and peculiarities , or record the manner in which he has discharged the duties of a citizen . When that hour shall arrive , we trust few of his own contemporaries ...
... ranks him , a biographer may with delicacy trace his personal character and peculiarities , or record the manner in which he has discharged the duties of a citizen . When that hour shall arrive , we trust few of his own contemporaries ...
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... rank him among the most distinguished of his class . His works possess the rare and invaluable property of originality , to which all other qualities are as dust in the balance ; and the sources to which he resorts to excite our ...
... rank him among the most distinguished of his class . His works possess the rare and invaluable property of originality , to which all other qualities are as dust in the balance ; and the sources to which he resorts to excite our ...
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... ranked at that time high in the Scottish fashionable world . But such surmises are little worth the tracing ; for we believe no original character was ever composed by any author , without the idea having been previously suggested by ...
... ranked at that time high in the Scottish fashionable world . But such surmises are little worth the tracing ; for we believe no original character was ever composed by any author , without the idea having been previously suggested by ...
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... ranks of life ; and it was not the least pleasing circumstance to a mother's heart , that her son in Bengal owed his promotion in the civil service to her talents . " The novel of Ethelinde was published in 1789 ; Celestina in 1791 ...
... ranks of life ; and it was not the least pleasing circumstance to a mother's heart , that her son in Bengal owed his promotion in the civil service to her talents . " The novel of Ethelinde was published in 1789 ; Celestina in 1791 ...
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... rank of society , as to contribute in any material degree towards the splendid success of his career in life . 2 Ralph Sadler was the eldest son of Henry Sad- leir , or Sadleyer , Esquire , through whom he was heir , according to Fuller ...
... rank of society , as to contribute in any material degree towards the splendid success of his career in life . 2 Ralph Sadler was the eldest son of Henry Sad- leir , or Sadleyer , Esquire , through whom he was heir , according to Fuller ...
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Página 373 - 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...
Página 384 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed W my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Página 228 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Página 243 - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be ! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Página 224 - WHEREVER .God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there...
Página 276 - At his first coming on board us, he had so much forgot his language, for want of use, that we could scarce understand him, for he seemed to speak his words by halves.
Página 375 - For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the Pythian's mystic cave of yore, Those oracles which set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more...
Página 377 - O'er the sea And from the mountains where I now respire, Fain would I waft such blessing upon thee, As, with a sigh, I deem thou might'st have been to me.
Página 227 - 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.
Página 338 - 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.