The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 |
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... ....... 160 VI . LADY SUFFOLK'S CORRESPONDENCE , ..................... .. 185 VIL KIRKTON'S CHURCH HISTORY , .... ......... . .... 213 VIII . LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN HOME , .......... 283 CRITICISM ON NOVELS AND ROMANCES . ( CONTINUED . )
... ....... 160 VI . LADY SUFFOLK'S CORRESPONDENCE , ..................... .. 185 VIL KIRKTON'S CHURCH HISTORY , .... ......... . .... 213 VIII . LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN HOME , .......... 283 CRITICISM ON NOVELS AND ROMANCES . ( CONTINUED . )
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... one of the young ladies of the family , and publishing the bans betwixt her and himself in the public church . ” — Note to Waverley , New Edit . ] VOL . XIX . B 1 tended about the character of Strap , which each TALES OF MY LANdlord . 17.
... one of the young ladies of the family , and publishing the bans betwixt her and himself in the public church . ” — Note to Waverley , New Edit . ] VOL . XIX . B 1 tended about the character of Strap , which each TALES OF MY LANdlord . 17.
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... church . He considered himself as ful- filling a sacred duty , while renewing to the eyes of posterity the decaying emblems of the zeal and sufferings of their fore- fathers , and thereby trimming , as it were , the beacon - light ...
... church . He considered himself as ful- filling a sacred duty , while renewing to the eyes of posterity the decaying emblems of the zeal and sufferings of their fore- fathers , and thereby trimming , as it were , the beacon - light ...
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... Church of Scotland . It will be remembered that Defoe visited Scotland on a political mission about the time of the Union , and it is evident that the anecdotes concerning this unhappy period , then fresh in the memory of many , must ...
... Church of Scotland . It will be remembered that Defoe visited Scotland on a political mission about the time of the Union , and it is evident that the anecdotes concerning this unhappy period , then fresh in the memory of many , must ...
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... Church of Scotland . 1 By this time the poor man began to see the soldier was not designing to hurt him , and he took the hint , and was encouraged to answer as he did . · This story seems to intimate , that the inhumanity 42 CRITICISM ...
... Church of Scotland . 1 By this time the poor man began to see the soldier was not designing to hurt him , and he took the hint , and was encouraged to answer as he did . · This story seems to intimate , that the inhumanity 42 CRITICISM ...
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Pàgina 87 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.
Pàgina 113 - Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV.
Pàgina 332 - I leave to my friend, Mr. John Home, of Kilduff, ten dozen of my old claret, at his choice ; and one single bottle of that other liquor called port. I also leave to him six dozen of port, provided that he attests under his hand, signed John Hume, that he has himself alone finished that bottle at two sittings. By this concession, he will at once terminate the only two differences that ever arose between us concerning temporal matters.
Pàgina 198 - Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are by Whigs — and generally by Tories too. Because he had humour, he was supposed to have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when any one had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil...
Pàgina 135 - They hooted a third time, advancing with their cross-bows presented, and began to shoot. The English archers then advanced one step forward, and shot their arrows with such force and quickness, that it seemed as if it snowed.
Pàgina 136 - return to him and to them that sent you hither, and say to them that they send no more to me for...
Pàgina 30 - But wherever they existed, Old Mortality was sure to visit them when his annual round brought them within his reach. In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned.
Pàgina 140 - Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive; with a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy : with which are now for the First Time interspersed, Varieties, incidental to the Principal Matter, in Prose and Verse.
Pàgina 133 - We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deed of arms; we have more need of rest.
Pàgina 237 - ... as at the saddest spectacle they had ever seen. When he had led us a mile without the town, he then declared what further he had in commission; that we should not dare to meet any more above three in number; and that against eight...