The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volumen6Cadell and Company, 1834 |
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... peculiar meaning given to the word in modern Europe , as applied to the order of knighthood , established in almost all her kingdoms during the middle ages , and the laws , rules , and customs , by which it was governed . Those laws and ...
... peculiar meaning given to the word in modern Europe , as applied to the order of knighthood , established in almost all her kingdoms during the middle ages , and the laws , rules , and customs , by which it was governed . Those laws and ...
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... peculiar and imposing character . They were not merely respected on account of their wealth or military skill , but were bound together by a union of a very peculiar character , which monarchs were ambitious to share with the poorest of ...
... peculiar and imposing character . They were not merely respected on account of their wealth or military skill , but were bound together by a union of a very peculiar character , which monarchs were ambitious to share with the poorest of ...
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... peculiar formality or personal ceremonial , seems so very natural , that it is quite unnecessary to multiply instances , or crowd our pages with the barbarous names of the nations by whom it has been adopted . In the general and ...
... peculiar formality or personal ceremonial , seems so very natural , that it is quite unnecessary to multiply instances , or crowd our pages with the barbarous names of the nations by whom it has been adopted . In the general and ...
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... peculiar habits and customs , which , brought by the Gothic conquerors into the provinces of the divided empire of Rome , subsisted and became ingrafted upon the institutions of Chivalry . Tacitus , for example , informs us , that among ...
... peculiar habits and customs , which , brought by the Gothic conquerors into the provinces of the divided empire of Rome , subsisted and became ingrafted upon the institutions of Chivalry . Tacitus , for example , informs us , that among ...
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... peculiar characters , and the circumstances in which it differs so widely from the martial character as it existed , either among the ancient Greeks and Romans , or in other countries and nations . II . We shall attempt a general ab ...
... peculiar characters , and the circumstances in which it differs so widely from the martial character as it existed , either among the ancient Greeks and Romans , or in other countries and nations . II . We shall attempt a general ab ...
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Página 345 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Página 352 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Página 309 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Página 363 - Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Página 281 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 284 - ... then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Página 278 - But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Página 359 - ... foul and indecent women now (and never till now) permitted to appear and act, who inflaming several young noblemen and gallants, became their misses, and to some, their wives. Witness the Earl of Oxford, Sir R. Howard...
Página 345 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Página 309 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.