 | Renate Mace - 1987 - 306 ページ
...verschiedenen sozialen und historischen Kontexten. Der Autor konzentriert sich auf ...t hose passioDs common to men in all stages of society, and which...the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corselet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 ページ
...a thousand editions" (Waverley, chap. 1). Human life is united, Scott insists, by the operation of "passions common to men in all stages of society,...frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day" (chap. 1). Here with Scott, as with Wordsworth, this sense of fundamental unity means that apparent... | |
 | Bill Schwarz - 1996 - 276 ページ
...readers that he is going to throw the force of his narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors: those passions common to men in all stages...brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and dimity waistcoat of the present day. Upon these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners... | |
 | Rohan Amanda Maitzen - 1998 - 254 ページ
...asserts that he will "[throw] the force of [his] narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors"; — those passions common to men in all stages...these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws casts a necessary colouring; but the bearings, to use the language of heraldry,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2001 - 408 ページ
...possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors;—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and...these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws casts a j necessary colouring; but the bearings, to use the language of heraldry,... | |
 | David Simpson - 2002 - 308 ページ
...feelings, prejudices, and parties of the times" (p. 63). At the same time there is a promise to delineate "those passions common to men in all stages of society,...or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the presentday" (pp. 35-36). Wordsworth, famously, made a similar attempt in poetry. But how do we tell... | |
 | Fabian Lampart - 2002 - 416 ページ
...force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors; - those passions common to all men in all stages of society, and which have alike...of the fifteenth Century, the brocaded coat of the cightccnth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day. (W, I, 5) Nicht um die... | |
 | Bradley Deane - 2003 - 194 ページ
...is the fundamentally human, "those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under...brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and dimity waistcoat of the present day" (5). History here takes a subordinate role to the transhistorically... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 2003 - 280 ページ
...first chapter of his novel Waverley that certain 'passions common to men in all stages of society . . . have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed...century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue flock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day'.49 In the apostrophe to war in The Lord of the... | |
 | Tessa Morris-Suzuki - 2005 - 300 ページ
...characters. It requires Scott to throw The force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors; — those passions common to men in all stages...frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day. (Scott 1 829, 3.) In other words, by writing of historical upheavals experienced by the previous generation,... | |
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... those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat... 
