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... seems seriously to have proceeded on Mr Bayes's maxim - " What the deuce is a plot good for , but to bring in fine things ? " - Probability and perspicuity of narrative are sacrificed with the utmost indiffer- ence to the desire of ...
... seems seriously to have proceeded on Mr Bayes's maxim - " What the deuce is a plot good for , but to bring in fine things ? " - Probability and perspicuity of narrative are sacrificed with the utmost indiffer- ence to the desire of ...
Pàgina 10
... seems to have deemed it incumbent on him , to transfer many more such incidents to his novels , than seem either probable or natural to an English reader It may be some apology that his story would have lost the 10 CRITICISM ON NOVELS ...
... seems to have deemed it incumbent on him , to transfer many more such incidents to his novels , than seem either probable or natural to an English reader It may be some apology that his story would have lost the 10 CRITICISM ON NOVELS ...
Pàgina 18
... seems , the same delicacy , and stole a brood - sow from their kind entertainer . Jean was so much mortified at this irregularity , and so much ashamed of it , that she absented herself from Loch- side for several years . At length , in ...
... seems , the same delicacy , and stole a brood - sow from their kind entertainer . Jean was so much mortified at this irregularity , and so much ashamed of it , that she absented herself from Loch- side for several years . At length , in ...
Pàgina 26
... seems to possess a mysterious authority over the conduct of his patron , had procured to be carried off by this freebooter , in order to place her the more absolutely at his paternal disposal . She is restored to the Castle of Ellieslaw ...
... seems to possess a mysterious authority over the conduct of his patron , had procured to be carried off by this freebooter , in order to place her the more absolutely at his paternal disposal . She is restored to the Castle of Ellieslaw ...
Pàgina 41
... seems to have been sketched with con- siderable attention to the manners . But it is not quite original , and probably the reader will dis- cover the germ of it in the following dialogue , which Daniel Defoe has introduced into his ...
... seems to have been sketched with con- siderable attention to the manners . But it is not quite original , and probably the reader will dis- cover the germ of it in the following dialogue , which Daniel Defoe has introduced into his ...
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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.