Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...Carey & Hart, 1841 |
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Pàgina 13
... eyes ; there was silence , and I heard a voice . " From these sublime and decisive authorities it is evident that the exhibition of supernatural appearances in fictitious narrative ought to be rare , brief , indistinct , and such as may ...
... eyes ; there was silence , and I heard a voice . " From these sublime and decisive authorities it is evident that the exhibition of supernatural appearances in fictitious narrative ought to be rare , brief , indistinct , and such as may ...
Pàgina 18
... eye is so dazzled with the variety of brilliant or glowing colours as to become less able to distin- guish the merit of those pieces which are possessed of any . But , notwithstanding this great disadvantage , which is inseparable from ...
... eye is so dazzled with the variety of brilliant or glowing colours as to become less able to distin- guish the merit of those pieces which are possessed of any . But , notwithstanding this great disadvantage , which is inseparable from ...
Pàgina 26
... eyes looking through his elf - locks , that " E'en like gray goss - hawk's stared wild , " indicated that touch of mental derangement , of which he seems to have been himself conscious , when entering the following fearful memorandum in ...
... eyes looking through his elf - locks , that " E'en like gray goss - hawk's stared wild , " indicated that touch of mental derangement , of which he seems to have been himself conscious , when entering the following fearful memorandum in ...
Pàgina 32
... nature , chanced one day to see a little girl apply to a market - woman's stall to purchase some fruit which had caught her eye and excited 99 her desire . The wary trader wished first to know 32 MISCELLANIES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... nature , chanced one day to see a little girl apply to a market - woman's stall to purchase some fruit which had caught her eye and excited 99 her desire . The wary trader wished first to know 32 MISCELLANIES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT .
Pàgina 33
... eyes , when Hoffmann called her back , and arranging matters with the dealer , filled the child's lap with the most beautiful fruit . Yet he had hardly time to enjoy the idea that he had altered the whole expres- sion of the juvenile ...
... eyes , when Hoffmann called her back , and arranging matters with the dealer , filled the child's lap with the most beautiful fruit . Yet he had hardly time to enjoy the idea that he had altered the whole expres- sion of the juvenile ...
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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.