The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelistsR.Cadell, 1834 |
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... received , and happy that , in this line of composi- tion , we can boast a living author , of excellence like that of Henry Mackenzie.1 1 [ Venerable and venerated , as " the last link of the chain which connected the Scottish ...
... received , and happy that , in this line of composi- tion , we can boast a living author , of excellence like that of Henry Mackenzie.1 1 [ Venerable and venerated , as " the last link of the chain which connected the Scottish ...
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... received their education . Of her progress at this time I am tempted to give the following account from the pen of a lady who was her schoolfellow : - " In answer to your enquiry whether Mrs Smith was du- ring our intimacy at school ...
... received their education . Of her progress at this time I am tempted to give the following account from the pen of a lady who was her schoolfellow : - " In answer to your enquiry whether Mrs Smith was du- ring our intimacy at school ...
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... received proposals for her from a gentleman of suitable station and fortune , which were rejected on account of her extreme youth . Happy would it have been if reasons of such weight had conti- nued in force a few years longer ! “ With ...
... received proposals for her from a gentleman of suitable station and fortune , which were rejected on account of her extreme youth . Happy would it have been if reasons of such weight had conti- nued in force a few years longer ! “ With ...
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... received , and that she should seek , in such dissipation as the neighbourhood afforded , a temporary relief from the unremitting vexations which embittered her domestic hours . In 1776 she lost her best friend time was so much occupied ...
... received , and that she should seek , in such dissipation as the neighbourhood afforded , a temporary relief from the unremitting vexations which embittered her domestic hours . In 1776 she lost her best friend time was so much occupied ...
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... received any compensation . Mrs Smith had long foreseen the storm that was gathering round her , but had no power to avert it . A lucrative contract , which the interest of Mr Robinson ( then Secretary to the Treasury , and who had ...
... received any compensation . Mrs Smith had long foreseen the storm that was gathering round her , but had no power to avert it . A lucrative contract , which the interest of Mr Robinson ( then Secretary to the Treasury , and who had ...
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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.