Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart]. |
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... ; the price was actually paid long before the poem was published ; and it suits very well with Constable's character to suppose that his readiness to advance the money may have outstripped the calculations of 4 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... ; the price was actually paid long before the poem was published ; and it suits very well with Constable's character to suppose that his readiness to advance the money may have outstripped the calculations of 4 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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... character ; and , passing to Scott's own affairs , he says- " Marmion is expected as impatiently by me as he is by ten thousand others . Believe me , Scott , no man of real genius was ever a puritanical stickler for cor- rectness , or ...
... character ; and , passing to Scott's own affairs , he says- " Marmion is expected as impatiently by me as he is by ten thousand others . Believe me , Scott , no man of real genius was ever a puritanical stickler for cor- rectness , or ...
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... character may be judged of even more surely by the letters which his friends addressed to him , than by those which he himself penned ; and I cannot but think that - freely as Scott's own feelings and opinions were poured from his head ...
... character may be judged of even more surely by the letters which his friends addressed to him , than by those which he himself penned ; and I cannot but think that - freely as Scott's own feelings and opinions were poured from his head ...
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... Walter Savage Landor to a brother poet , he has a noble sentence , which I hope to be pardoned for extracting , as equally applicable to his own character and that of the man he was address- 44 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... Walter Savage Landor to a brother poet , he has a noble sentence , which I hope to be pardoned for extracting , as equally applicable to his own character and that of the man he was address- 44 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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John Gibson Lockhart. own character and that of the man he was address- ing . " Great poets , " says the author of Thalaba , " have no envy ; little ones are full of it ! I doubt whether any man ever criticised a good poem ma- liciously ...
John Gibson Lockhart. own character and that of the man he was address- ing . " Great poets , " says the author of Thalaba , " have no envy ; little ones are full of it ! I doubt whether any man ever criticised a good poem ma- liciously ...
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194 ページ - Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base.
282 ページ - Paoli— he's off wi' the land-louping scoundrel of a Corsican ;^ and whose tail do you think he has pinned himself to now, mon ? " Here the old judge summoned up a sneer of most sovereign contempt. " A dominie, mon — an auld dominie ; he keeped a schiile, and cau'd it an acaadamy.
61 ページ - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound; And all the reasoning powers divine To penetrate, resolve, combine; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
250 ページ - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
283 ページ - ... pressing upon the old Judge the question, what good Cromwell, of whom he had said something derogatory, had ever done to his country ? — when, after being much tortured, Lord Auchinleck at last spoke out, ' God ! doctor, he gart kings ken that they had a lith in their neck' — he taught kings they had a joint in their necks.
403 ページ - Percival, by Bellingham, in the lobby of the House of Commons, on the llth of May, 1812; and that Scott had, in his capacity of Sheriff, had his own share in suppressing the tumults of the only manufacturing town of Selkirkshire.
270 ページ - Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all the examples and mode of giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember...
34 ページ - I humbly think that we may be excused from intrusting to them those places in the State where the influence of such a clergy, who act under the direction of a passive tool of our worst foe, is likely to be attended with the most fatal consequences. If a gentleman chooses to walk about with a couple of pounds of gunpowder in his pocket, if I give him the shelter of my roof, I may at least be permitted to exclude him from the seat next to the fire.
189 ページ - Sheriff's coming home by the ford — or by the hill;" and the sick animal would immediately bestir himself to welcome his master, going out at the back door or the front door, according to the direction given, and advancing as far as he was able, either towards the ford of the Tweed, or the bridge over the Glenkinnon burn beyond Laird Nippy's gate.
214 ページ - ... amusement. I have heard Scott chuckle with particular glee over the recollection of an excursion to the vale of the Ettrick, near which river the party were pursued by a bull. " Come, King John," said he, " we must even take the water," and accordingly he and * Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol.