The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volum 6Cadell and Company, 1834 |
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Pàgina 12
... language , when it is remembered that the Saracens had at one time nearly possessed themselves of Aquitaine , and that but for the successful valour of Charles Martel , Pepin , and Charlemagne , the crescent might have dispossessed the ...
... language , when it is remembered that the Saracens had at one time nearly possessed themselves of Aquitaine , and that but for the successful valour of Charles Martel , Pepin , and Charlemagne , the crescent might have dispossessed the ...
Pàgina 33
... language at the court of the Norman monarchs , is the distich painted in the shield of Edward III . under the figure of a white swan , being the device which that warlike monarch wore at a tourney , at Windsor . " Ha ! ha ! the white ...
... language at the court of the Norman monarchs , is the distich painted in the shield of Edward III . under the figure of a white swan , being the device which that warlike monarch wore at a tourney , at Windsor . " Ha ! ha ! the white ...
Pàgina 41
... language that was currently used in tales and fictions addressed to the young and noble of both sexes . In the romance of the Round Table , as Ascham sternly states , little was to be learned but examples of homicide and adul- tery ...
... language that was currently used in tales and fictions addressed to the young and noble of both sexes . In the romance of the Round Table , as Ascham sternly states , little was to be learned but examples of homicide and adul- tery ...
Pàgina 47
... language , " What ill - taught clown is this , [ meaning Alexius , ] who dares to keep his seat when the flower of the European nobility are standing around him ! " The Emperor , dissembling his indignation , desired to know the birth ...
... language , " What ill - taught clown is this , [ meaning Alexius , ] who dares to keep his seat when the flower of the European nobility are standing around him ! " The Emperor , dissembling his indignation , desired to know the birth ...
Pàgina 51
... language of the times , learned to bear the fatigue , the hunger , and thirst , which huntsmen are exposed to . By the necessity of encountering and despatching a stag , a boar , or a wolf , at bay , he acquired promptitude and courage ...
... language of the times , learned to bear the fatigue , the hunger , and thirst , which huntsmen are exposed to . By the necessity of encountering and despatching a stag , a boar , or a wolf , at bay , he acquired promptitude and courage ...
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Pàgina 345 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Pàgina 345 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Pàgina 352 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Pàgina 309 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Pàgina 363 - Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Pàgina 363 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Pàgina 309 - It is false that any / representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Pàgina 281 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Pàgina 284 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived?
Pàgina 284 - ... then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?