The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 |
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... enter our protest . It is in justice to the author himself that we do so , because , whatever merit individual scenes and passages may possess ( and none have been more ready than ourselves to offer our applause ) , it is clear that ...
... enter our protest . It is in justice to the author himself that we do so , because , whatever merit individual scenes and passages may possess ( and none have been more ready than ourselves to offer our applause ) , it is clear that ...
Pàgina 39
... enter into Leagues and Covenants'- " Here the ceremony was interrupted by a strife between Cuddie and his mother , which , long conducted in whispers , now became audible . " O , whisht , mither , whisht ! they're upon a communing- Oh ...
... enter into Leagues and Covenants'- " Here the ceremony was interrupted by a strife between Cuddie and his mother , which , long conducted in whispers , now became audible . " O , whisht , mither , whisht ! they're upon a communing- Oh ...
Pàgina 71
... enter- prise by the pusillanimity of the King , he did not desert his sinking cause . He fought his cause in the convention of estates in Scotland ; and finally retreating to the Highlands , raised the clans in his defence . No name is ...
... enter- prise by the pusillanimity of the King , he did not desert his sinking cause . He fought his cause in the convention of estates in Scotland ; and finally retreating to the Highlands , raised the clans in his defence . No name is ...
Pàgina 110
... enter- taining , and excites no small degree of interest , especially if read about an hour before dinner . The medical remarks are excellent , although ap- parently too indulgent towards the gourmand . The author stands completely ...
... enter- taining , and excites no small degree of interest , especially if read about an hour before dinner . The medical remarks are excellent , although ap- parently too indulgent towards the gourmand . The author stands completely ...
Pàgina 144
... enter their calamities regularly in memorandum books , though , certainly , not sufficient coolness of thought to cor- rect the language and style in which they are related . We think that even Mrs Testy , though she is guilty of some ...
... enter their calamities regularly in memorandum books , though , certainly , not sufficient coolness of thought to cor- rect the language and style in which they are related . We think that even Mrs Testy , though she is guilty of some ...
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Passatges populars
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...