The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism. 3-5. MiscellaneousA. and C. Black, 1870 |
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Pàgina 3
... desire of producing effect ; and pro- vided the author can but contrive to " surprise and elevate , " he appears to think that he has done his duty to the public . Against this slovenly indiffer- ence we have already remonstrated , and ...
... desire of producing effect ; and pro- vided the author can but contrive to " surprise and elevate , " he appears to think that he has done his duty to the public . Against this slovenly indiffer- ence we have already remonstrated , and ...
Pàgina 50
... desire to befriend his cause . And , O ! lay to heart and mourn for what has been done to provoke him to anger , in not seeking the truth to exe- cute judgment , and therefore he has not pardoned . Behold ! for your iniquities have you ...
... desire to befriend his cause . And , O ! lay to heart and mourn for what has been done to provoke him to anger , in not seeking the truth to exe- cute judgment , and therefore he has not pardoned . Behold ! for your iniquities have you ...
Pàgina 62
... desire to be understood to use the term as distinguished from knowledge - that they are all the offspring of the same parent . At once a master of the great events and minuter incidents of history , and of the manners of the times he ...
... desire to be understood to use the term as distinguished from knowledge - that they are all the offspring of the same parent . At once a master of the great events and minuter incidents of history , and of the manners of the times he ...
Pàgina 119
... desire to return to Eng- land ; but he still kept up a friendly intercourse with that court , and had prepared to send to King Edward a splendid copy of his Chronicle , when it was arrested by the Duke of Anjou as destined to the enemy ...
... desire to return to Eng- land ; but he still kept up a friendly intercourse with that court , and had prepared to send to King Edward a splendid copy of his Chronicle , when it was arrested by the Duke of Anjou as destined to the enemy ...
Pàgina 135
... desire you that you and your battle will come and aid them ; for if the Frenchmen increase , as they doubt they will , your son and they shall have much ado . Then the king said , ' Is my son dead or hurt , or on the earth felled ? No ...
... desire you that you and your battle will come and aid them ; for if the Frenchmen increase , as they doubt they will , your son and they shall have much ado . Then the king said , ' Is my son dead or hurt , or on the earth felled ? No ...
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Pàgina 147 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Pàgina 104 - 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 124 - A man is well at ease to be charged with such a sort of rascals, to be faint and fail now at most need.
Pàgina 125 - France came in sight of the English, his blood began to boil, and he cried out to his marshals, " Order the Genoese forward, and begin the battle, in the name of God and St. Denis.
Pàgina 128 - Now, sir Thomas, return back to those that sent you and tell them from me, not to send again for me this day, or expect that I shall come, let what will happen, as long as my son has life; and say that I command them to let the boy win his spurs; for I am determined, if it please God, that all the glory and honour of this day shall be given to him, and to those into whose care I have entrusted him.
Pàgina 288 - Disdained in Marathon its power to feel: For not alone he nursed the poet's flame, But reached from virtue's hand the patriot's steel.
Pàgina 204 - ... from top to bottom ; and then you must stuff them fuller than they will hold with granite tables and porphyry urns, and bronzes, and statues, 'and vases, and the Lord or the devil knows what — but, for fear you should ruin yourself or the nation, the...
Pàgina 124 - 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 79 - 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 324 - D — n my commission,' said the warlike chaplain, throwing it towards his colonel. It may easily be supposed that the matter was only remembered as a good jest ; but the future historian of Rome shared the honours and dangers of that dreadful day, where, according to the account of the French themselves, ' the Highland furies rushed in upon them with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.