Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...Carey & Hart, 1841 |
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... ENGLAND , TALES OF MY LANDLORD , - THORNTON'S SPORTING TOUR , Two COOKERY BOOKS , JOHNES ' TRANSLATION OF FROISSART , MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE , CARR'S CALEDONIAN SKETCHES , LADY SUFFOLK'S CORRESPONDENCE , KIRKTON'S CHURCH HISTORY , LIFE ...
... ENGLAND , TALES OF MY LANDLORD , - THORNTON'S SPORTING TOUR , Two COOKERY BOOKS , JOHNES ' TRANSLATION OF FROISSART , MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE , CARR'S CALEDONIAN SKETCHES , LADY SUFFOLK'S CORRESPONDENCE , KIRKTON'S CHURCH HISTORY , LIFE ...
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... England corresponding to the fantastic style of composition which we are now treating of . Peter Schlemil , The Devil's Elixir , and other German works of the same character , have made it known to us through the medium of translation ...
... England corresponding to the fantastic style of composition which we are now treating of . Peter Schlemil , The Devil's Elixir , and other German works of the same character , have made it known to us through the medium of translation ...
Pàgina 67
... prosecuted , would lead very far , and far- ther perhaps than is warranted by the subject of these remarks . It is possible , however , we may one day return to it . HAJJI BABA IN ENGLAND . * [ Quarterly Review , THE OMEN . 67.
... prosecuted , would lead very far , and far- ther perhaps than is warranted by the subject of these remarks . It is possible , however , we may one day return to it . HAJJI BABA IN ENGLAND . * [ Quarterly Review , THE OMEN . 67.
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... England . 2 vols . By J. MORIER , Esq . The Kuzzilbash ; a Tale of Khorasan . 3 vols . By JAMES BAILLIE FRASER , Esq . in the chase or the battle - and whose death 68 MISCELLANIES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT . HAJJI BABA IN ENGLAND,
... England . 2 vols . By J. MORIER , Esq . The Kuzzilbash ; a Tale of Khorasan . 3 vols . By JAMES BAILLIE FRASER , Esq . in the chase or the battle - and whose death 68 MISCELLANIES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT . HAJJI BABA IN ENGLAND,
Pàgina 69
... precise species of composition which we mean , exists in the Memoranda imputed to the Indian Kings , and published in the Spectator . At a later period , Hajji Baba , as the reader probably well knows , HAJJI BABA IN ENGLAND . 69.
... precise species of composition which we mean , exists in the Memoranda imputed to the Indian Kings , and published in the Spectator . At a later period , Hajji Baba , as the reader probably well knows , HAJJI BABA IN ENGLAND . 69.
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Pàgina 13 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Pàgina 12 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Pàgina 45 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Pàgina 31 - When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, I grieve, making great...
Pàgina 412 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Pàgina 204 - 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 12 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Pàgina 12 - ... shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb: Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, — For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible and sublime to the last degree.
Pàgina 13 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Pàgina 157 - 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.