The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism. 3-5. MiscellaneousA. and C. Black, 1870 |
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... Knight of the Burning Pestle . When they are asked what the principal person of the drama shall do ? —the answer is prompt and ready— “ Marry , let him come forth and kill a giant . " There is a good deal of tact in the request . Every ...
... Knight of the Burning Pestle . When they are asked what the principal person of the drama shall do ? —the answer is prompt and ready— “ Marry , let him come forth and kill a giant . " There is a good deal of tact in the request . Every ...
Pàgina 21
... knight of the shire , " but also a special affinity to some particular individual . It is scarcely pos- sible it should be otherwise . When Emery appears on the stage as a Yorkshire peasant , with the habit , manner , and dialect ...
... knight of the shire , " but also a special affinity to some particular individual . It is scarcely pos- sible it should be otherwise . When Emery appears on the stage as a Yorkshire peasant , with the habit , manner , and dialect ...
Pàgina 72
... knights in the fable . The minstrels have not been silent on the occasion , and the censure of the amiable Gra- hame may be well contrasted with the classical epitaph of Pitcairn . Claverhouse is the only cavalier of importance upon ...
... knights in the fable . The minstrels have not been silent on the occasion , and the censure of the amiable Gra- hame may be well contrasted with the classical epitaph of Pitcairn . Claverhouse is the only cavalier of importance upon ...
Pàgina 113
... knights of whom he wrote , arrange the terms of combat and the manner of the onset ; we hear their soldiers cry their war - cries ; we see them strike their horses with the spur ; and the liveliness of the narration hurries us along ...
... knights of whom he wrote , arrange the terms of combat and the manner of the onset ; we hear their soldiers cry their war - cries ; we see them strike their horses with the spur ; and the liveliness of the narration hurries us along ...
Pàgina 115
... knight , he may rest assured that the arms we employ shall only be those of courtesy . The present translation of Froissart will consist , when finished , of four large quarto volumes . The best authorities have been resorted to for ...
... knight , he may rest assured that the arms we employ shall only be those of courtesy . The present translation of Froissart will consist , when finished , of four large quarto volumes . The best authorities have been resorted to for ...
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Passatges populars
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.