The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 |
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Pàgina 2
... scenes and faces which are copied from nature an air of distinct reality , which is not attached to fancy - pieces , however happily conceived and elaborately executed . By what sort of freemasonry , if we may use the term , the mind ...
... scenes and faces which are copied from nature an air of distinct reality , which is not attached to fancy - pieces , however happily conceived and elaborately executed . By what sort of freemasonry , if we may use the term , the mind ...
Pàgina 3
... scenes and characters connected with Scotland in its past and present state , and we must own that his stories are so slightly constructed as to remind us of the showman's thread with which he draws up his pictures and presents them ...
... scenes and characters connected with Scotland in its past and present state , and we must own that his stories are so slightly constructed as to remind us of the showman's thread with which he draws up his pictures and presents them ...
Pàgina 4
... scene from what the dramatis persona say to each other , and not from any explanation addressed imme- diately to themselves . But though the author gain this advantage , and thereby compel the reader to think of the personages of the ...
... scene from what the dramatis persona say to each other , and not from any explanation addressed imme- diately to themselves . But though the author gain this advantage , and thereby compel the reader to think of the personages of the ...
Pàgina 5
... scene . This is understood even by the worthy citizen and his wife , who are introduced as prolocutors in Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle . When they are asked what the principal person of the drama shall do ? the answer is ...
... scene . This is understood even by the worthy citizen and his wife , who are introduced as prolocutors in Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle . When they are asked what the principal person of the drama shall do ? the answer is ...
Pàgina 10
... scenes which passed in the Highlands , betwixt these memorable eras , and was remarkable , among other exploits , for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy Mac- Gregor , at the Clachan of Balquidder . He ...
... scenes which passed in the Highlands , betwixt these memorable eras , and was remarkable , among other exploits , for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy Mac- Gregor , at the Clachan of Balquidder . He ...
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Adam Fergusson afterwards amusement appear arms army Balfour battle battle of Culloden Bellenden betwixt bishops Bothwell Burley called castle cause character Charles Chevalier Church of Scotland Claverhouse clergy Colonel court Covenant Covenanters Cuddie David Hume death Douglas Duke Earl Edinburgh editor England English Episcopacy Evandale favour fear feeling French friends Froissart Genoese gentleman give hand Highlanders historian Home's honour horse interest Jacobite James Jedediah Cleishbotham John Home King King's kirk Kirkton knight Lady land letter lively Lochgoin Lord Lord Berners Mackenzie manner ment mind ministers Morton narrative natural never noble occasion officer Old Mortality party perhaps person preach Presbyterians present prince reader received remarkable scene Scottish seems Sir John Sir John Cope soldiers spirit story supposed sword Testy thou tion Tour truth Whig whole zeal
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...