The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3Cadell and Company, 1834 |
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... equally beloved and admired by high and low . That she had been taken at twelve years of age , for the sweetness of her manners and modesty , and for an understanding above her years , by Mr B's mother , a truly worthy lady , to wait on ...
... equally beloved and admired by high and low . That she had been taken at twelve years of age , for the sweetness of her manners and modesty , and for an understanding above her years , by Mr B's mother , a truly worthy lady , to wait on ...
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... equally the case , is incapable of tracing their changeful and fading hues . To transgress the rules of natural good- breeding , or to represent characters by whom they should be practised as doing so , is a want of taste which must ...
... equally the case , is incapable of tracing their changeful and fading hues . To transgress the rules of natural good- breeding , or to represent characters by whom they should be practised as doing so , is a want of taste which must ...
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... equally to be what he is described in the nervous language of Johnson , in his Life of Rowe . Lothario seems to have been ardson into that of Lovelace ; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction . Lo- thario ...
... equally to be what he is described in the nervous language of Johnson , in his Life of Rowe . Lothario seems to have been ardson into that of Lovelace ; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction . Lo- thario ...
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... equally bold , and , as it seems to us , equally unfounded , is , that though a good acting play may be made by selecting a plot and characters from a novel , yet scarcely any effort of genius could render a play into a narrative ...
... equally bold , and , as it seems to us , equally unfounded , is , that though a good acting play may be made by selecting a plot and characters from a novel , yet scarcely any effort of genius could render a play into a narrative ...
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... equally forgotten by the mob of gallery readers , -Miss Edgeworth . Before Sir Walter is entitled to argue as he has done , he must , at the least , show us , on the one hand , an au- thor of Macbeth trying in vain to write an ...
... equally forgotten by the mob of gallery readers , -Miss Edgeworth . Before Sir Walter is entitled to argue as he has done , he must , at the least , show us , on the one hand , an au- thor of Macbeth trying in vain to write an ...
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Page 248 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I...
Page 242 - ... a message from poor Goldsmith, that he was in great distress; and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly.
Page 272 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sov'reign, o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat ; These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain.
Page 228 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts ; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Page 258 - Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings neither congenial with his studies, nor worthy of his talents. I remember him, when in his chamber in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature; it was with a sigh, such as genius draws when hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well.
Page 154 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Page 276 - My father was a little smart man, active to the last degree in all exercises, most patient of fatigue and disappointments, of which it pleased God to give him full measure. He was, in his temper, somewhat rapid and hasty, but of a kindly sweet disposition, void of all design ; and so innocent in his own intentions, that he suspected no one; so that you might have cheated him ten times in a day. if nine had not been sufficient for your purpose.
Page 387 - HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy.
Page 114 - My wife, who behaved more like a heroine and philosopher, though at the same time the tenderest mother in the world, and my eldest daughter followed me ; some friends went with us, and others here took their leave ; and I heard my behaviour applauded, with many murmurs and praises to which I well knew I had no title ; as all other such philosophers may, if they have any modesty, confess on the like occasions.
Page 294 - As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another; and as those old Romans robbed all the cities of the world, to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile plots ... we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again...