The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott, Volum 6 |
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Pàgina 26
... perhaps it is the most brutal part of humanity , -is soon converted into the capricious tyrant , like the suc- cessful seducer of the modern poet . " Hard ! with their fears and terrors to behold The cause of all , the faithless lover ...
... perhaps it is the most brutal part of humanity , -is soon converted into the capricious tyrant , like the suc- cessful seducer of the modern poet . " Hard ! with their fears and terrors to behold The cause of all , the faithless lover ...
Pàgina 50
... these respects which we have noticed , we must remember that we are ourselves variable and inconsistent animals , and that , perhaps , the surest mode of introducing and encouraging any particu- lar vice , 50 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
... these respects which we have noticed , we must remember that we are ourselves variable and inconsistent animals , and that , perhaps , the surest mode of introducing and encouraging any particu- lar vice , 50 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
Pàgina 92
... was not perhaps out of view in determining its shape . Of course , the reader will understand that those knights only displayed a pennon who had retainers to support and defend it ; the mounting this 92 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
... was not perhaps out of view in determining its shape . Of course , the reader will understand that those knights only displayed a pennon who had retainers to support and defend it ; the mounting this 92 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
Pàgina 103
... taxes within their domains , was often resisted by the knights- errant of the day , whose adventures , in fact , ap- proached much nearer to those of Don Quixote than perhaps our readers are aware of . For although ESSAY ON CHIVALRY . 103.
... taxes within their domains , was often resisted by the knights- errant of the day , whose adventures , in fact , ap- proached much nearer to those of Don Quixote than perhaps our readers are aware of . For although ESSAY ON CHIVALRY . 103.
Pàgina 104
sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]). than perhaps our readers are aware of . For although the Knight of La Mancha was , perhaps , two cen- turies too late in exercising his office of redresser of wrongs , and although his heated ...
sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]). than perhaps our readers are aware of . For although the Knight of La Mancha was , perhaps , two cen- turies too late in exercising his office of redresser of wrongs , and although his heated ...
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Pàgina 405 - 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 405 - 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 331 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and 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?
Pàgina 414 - 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 362 - 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 332 - Now of time they are much more liberal; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love: after many traverses she is got with child: delivered of a fair boy: he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child; and all this in two hours...
Pàgina 323 - But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Pàgina 400 - Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed.
Pàgina 427 - 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. 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.
Pàgina 331 - 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?