The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and ThingsWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt George Bell & sons, 1890 - 538 pages |
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... Sir Walter Scott is the Author of Waverley , that ever since these novels began to appear , his Muse has been silent , till the publication of Halidon Hill ? [ On the back of the first leaf of this Essay , in the MS . , are several ...
... Sir Walter Scott is the Author of Waverley , that ever since these novels began to appear , his Muse has been silent , till the publication of Halidon Hill ? [ On the back of the first leaf of this Essay , in the MS . , are several ...
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... Sir Walter Scott more ? I do not like to think there should be a second instance of the same person's being The ... Sir Walter Scott's success than at his servility . You would give yourself no trouble about his poverty of spirit , if he ...
... Sir Walter Scott more ? I do not like to think there should be a second instance of the same person's being The ... Sir Walter Scott's success than at his servility . You would give yourself no trouble about his poverty of spirit , if he ...
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... Sir Walter Scott is a Tory - because it gives you an opportunity of qualifying your involuntary admiration of him . You would be sorry indeed if he were what you call an honest man ! Envy is like a viper coiled up at the bottom of the ...
... Sir Walter Scott is a Tory - because it gives you an opportunity of qualifying your involuntary admiration of him . You would be sorry indeed if he were what you call an honest man ! Envy is like a viper coiled up at the bottom of the ...
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... Sir Walter Scott , of the Duke of Wellington , and of Marshal Blucher . The first , contrary to the expectation of these learned persons , wants the organ of imagination ; the second the organ of combination ; and the last possesses the ...
... Sir Walter Scott , of the Duke of Wellington , and of Marshal Blucher . The first , contrary to the expectation of these learned persons , wants the organ of imagination ; the second the organ of combination ; and the last possesses the ...
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... Sir Walter Scott is fonder of an old Scotch ditty or antiquarian record , than of listening to the praises of the Author of Waverley . On the contrary , I cannot conceive how any one who feels conscious of certain powers , should always ...
... Sir Walter Scott is fonder of an old Scotch ditty or antiquarian record , than of listening to the praises of the Author of Waverley . On the contrary , I cannot conceive how any one who feels conscious of certain powers , should always ...
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