Abbotsford and Sir Walter ScottW.P. Nimmo, 1866 - 240 ページ |
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Abbotsford Abbotsford House Allan Water amid amongst ancient anecdote auld author of Waverley badger banks beautiful beside brae called character cottage countenance Creeshies Darnick deep delight Deloraine dogs door doubt ears Eildon hills entered exclaimed fairies fancy feeling followed foot forest frae Gala water Galashiels green grey ground hand haunted Hawthorndale Village head heard heart hung immortal Jedburgh John of Skye Johnny Bowers Johnny Scott jougs Lady Laird laugh listened look Maida master Melrose Abbey merry mind Minstrel monk neighbour neighbourhood never night Novels occasion once picturesque plantations poet poetical poor portrait Purdie Rhymer's river Tweed scene scenery seemed seen Selkirk Shakspere Sherra side Sir Walter Scott splendid spot stands stone stood tell thought Tom Purdie Tom's took tower tree Tweed wasp waur Waverley Novels Weel wild window woods Yarrow ye ken
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227 ページ - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
188 ページ - Action, and tone, and gesture, the smile of the lover, the frown of the tyrant, the grimace of the buffoon, — all must be told, for nothing can be shown. Thus, the very dialogue becomes mixed with the narration ; for he must not only tell what the characters actually said, in which his task is the same as that of the dramatic author, but must also describe the tone, the look, the gesture, with which their speech was accompanied, — telling, in short, all which, in the drama, it becomes the province...
1 ページ - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be! How few, all weak and wither'd of their force, Wait on the verge of dark eternity, Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course.
190 ページ - He was, like a pre-eminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms, and loved to paint characters under the strong agitation of fierce and stormy passions.
123 ページ - The lyart veteran heard the Word of God By Cameron thundered, or by Renwick poured In gentle stream : then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise ; the wheeling plover ceased Her plaint ; the solitary place was glad. And on the distant cairns, the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times, the breeze-borne note.
45 ページ - A hard and harsh countenance — eyes far sunk under projecting eyebrows, which were grizzled like his hair — a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth of uncommon whiteness, and a size and breadth which might have become the jaws of an ogre, completed this delightful portrait.
123 ページ - With green sward gay, and flowers that strangers seem Amid the heathery wild, that all around Fatigues the eye ; in solitudes like these, Thy persecuted children, Scotia, foil'd A tyrant's and a bigot's bloody laws : There, leaning on his spear, (one of the...
61 ページ - The grave, close to the Abbey at Melrose, is surmounted by a modest monument, having on two sides these inscriptions;— •In grateful remembrance of the faithful and attached services of twenty-two years, and in sorrow for the loss of a humble but sincere friend; this stone was erected by Sir Walter Scott, Bart., of Abbotsford.
187 ページ - It is the object of the novel-writer to place before the reader as full and accurate a representation of the events which he relates, as can be done by the mere force of an excited imagination, without the assistance of material objects. His sole appeal is made to the world of fancy and of ideas, and in this consists his strength and his weakness, his poverty and his wealth.
187 ページ - ... the imagination of a congenial reader, he places before his mind's eye, landscapes fairer than those of Claude, and wilder than those of Salvator. He cannot, like the dramatist, present before our living eyes the heroes of former days, or the beautiful creations of his own fancy, embodied in the grace and majesty of Kemble or of Siddons ; but he can teach his reader to conjure up forms even more dignified and beautiful than theirs.