The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelistsBaudry's European Library, 1838 |
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... ancient ; for , in truth , we know no other rule for ascertaining the antiquity of any particular piece in the Romans language , than by its greater or slighter resemblance to the speech of the ancient Romans , from which it derives its ...
... ancient ; for , in truth , we know no other rule for ascertaining the antiquity of any particular piece in the Romans language , than by its greater or slighter resemblance to the speech of the ancient Romans , from which it derives its ...
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... ancient poets , without ceasing to use modern measure and phraseology ; but , had the conscience of this author permitted him to palm these verses upon the public as an original production of the fourteenth century , we know no internal ...
... ancient poets , without ceasing to use modern measure and phraseology ; but , had the conscience of this author permitted him to palm these verses upon the public as an original production of the fourteenth century , we know no internal ...
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... ancient history , we cannot help thinking that these works of fancy should be read along with the labours of the professed historian . The one teaches what our ancestors thought ; how they lived ; upon what motives they acted , and what ...
... ancient history , we cannot help thinking that these works of fancy should be read along with the labours of the professed historian . The one teaches what our ancestors thought ; how they lived ; upon what motives they acted , and what ...
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... ancient metrical romances were very early superseded by prose works upon the same subjects . These last , although far inferior , in interest and merit , to the poetical tales which preceded them , claimed and obtained a superior degree ...
... ancient metrical romances were very early superseded by prose works upon the same subjects . These last , although far inferior , in interest and merit , to the poetical tales which preceded them , claimed and obtained a superior degree ...
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... ancient and irrecon- cilable feud betwixt knights - errant and dragons . The dragon being slain , the grateful lion attaches himself to his ally , and maintains a great part in all his future adventures . They come to the enchanted ...
... ancient and irrecon- cilable feud betwixt knights - errant and dragons . The dragon being slain , the grateful lion attaches himself to his ally , and maintains a great part in all his future adventures . They come to the enchanted ...
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الصفحة 160 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
الصفحة 449 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
الصفحة 234 - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand : Why dost thou lash that whore ? strip thine own back ; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind, For which thou whipp'st her.
الصفحة 120 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
الصفحة 155 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote ; At last men came to set me free...
الصفحة 217 - Or, would'st thou lose thyself, and catch no harm ? And find thyself again without a charm ? Would'st read thyself, and read thou know'st not what, And yet know whether thou art blest or not, By reading the same lines ? O, then, come hither ; And lay my book, thy head and heart together.
الصفحة 449 - ... crash And merciless ravage: and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being: and unless I now Confound my present feelings with the past...
الصفحة 276 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, ""Shall mortal man be more just than God?
الصفحة 162 - And even since, and now, fair Italy ! Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature (') can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste ; More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
الصفحة 164 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday — All this rush'd with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged? Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire!