Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart]. |
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In fact , though the account between an individual bookseller and such a man as
Southey may be iniquitous enough , yet I apprehend , that upon the whole the
account between the trade and the authors of Britain at large is pretty fairly ...
In fact , though the account between an individual bookseller and such a man as
Southey may be iniquitous enough , yet I apprehend , that upon the whole the
account between the trade and the authors of Britain at large is pretty fairly ...
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charm to the venerable old minstrel : the two poems may be considered as
equally respectable to the talents of the author ; but the first , being a more perfect
whole , will be more constantly preferred . Now , all this may be very true - but it is
no ...
charm to the venerable old minstrel : the two poems may be considered as
equally respectable to the talents of the author ; but the first , being a more perfect
whole , will be more constantly preferred . Now , all this may be very true - but it is
no ...
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I conclude with a passage , in writing which he seems to have anticipated the
only serious critical charge that was ever brought against his edition of Dryden as
a whole — namely , the loose and irregular way in which his own ästhetical ...
I conclude with a passage , in writing which he seems to have anticipated the
only serious critical charge that was ever brought against his edition of Dryden as
a whole — namely , the loose and irregular way in which his own ästhetical ...
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But in a short time I saw there was no ground whatever for apprehension , and
yet I sat the whole time shaking for fear a scene - shifter , or a carpenter , or some
of the subaltern actors , should make some blunder , and interrupt the feeling of ...
But in a short time I saw there was no ground whatever for apprehension , and
yet I sat the whole time shaking for fear a scene - shifter , or a carpenter , or some
of the subaltern actors , should make some blunder , and interrupt the feeling of ...
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The whole setting or framework - - whatever relates in short to the last of the
Goths himself — was , I think , even then unanimously pronounced admirable ;
and no party feeling could blind any man to the heroic splendour of such stanzas
as ...
The whole setting or framework - - whatever relates in short to the last of the
Goths himself — was , I think , even then unanimously pronounced admirable ;
and no party feeling could blind any man to the heroic splendour of such stanzas
as ...
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admirable affection alluded answer appeared Ashestiel Baillie Ballantyne believe bookseller brother called Castle character circumstances concerned considered Constable copy correspondence course criticism Dear death delighted doubt early Edinburgh edition Ellis English equally expect expressed favour feelings give hand happy honour hope interest James John kind labours Lady late least less letter lines literary lively London Lord Marmion matter means mentioned mind Miss Morritt nature never occasion once opinion party perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry political poor present published reader received respect Review Rokeby scene Scotch Scotland seems seen short soon Southey spirit success suppose sure thing thought tion turn volume WALTER Scott whole wish writing written young
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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.