Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, 6. kötetR. Cadell, 1839 |
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... amuse yourself with look- ing at the General's most marvellous performance . His lies are certainly like the father who begot them . Do not think that at any time the little trumpery * Article on General Gourgaud's Memoirs in ...
... amuse yourself with look- ing at the General's most marvellous performance . His lies are certainly like the father who begot them . Do not think that at any time the little trumpery * Article on General Gourgaud's Memoirs in ...
135. oldal
... amuse and interest us in our later stage of exist- often think what an unhappy person I I very should have been , if I had not done something more or less towards improving my understanding when I was at your age ; and I never reflect ...
... amuse and interest us in our later stage of exist- often think what an unhappy person I I very should have been , if I had not done something more or less towards improving my understanding when I was at your age ; and I never reflect ...
177. oldal
... amuse him as well as he could in the intervals of pain , happened to get on the subject of the Jews , as he had observed them when he spent some time in Germany in his youth . Their situation had naturally made a strong impression ; for ...
... amuse him as well as he could in the intervals of pain , happened to get on the subject of the Jews , as he had observed them when he spent some time in Germany in his youth . Their situation had naturally made a strong impression ; for ...
232. oldal
... amuse ; but that it was physically impossible that the man who was writing the Waverley romances at the rate of nearly twelve volumes in the year , could continue , week after week , and month after month , to devote all but a hardly ...
... amuse ; but that it was physically impossible that the man who was writing the Waverley romances at the rate of nearly twelve volumes in the year , could continue , week after week , and month after month , to devote all but a hardly ...
234. oldal
... amuse- ment , more of animal spirits , to say nothing of in- tellectual vigour , than would have been considered by any other man in the company as sufficient for the whole expenditure of a week's existence . Yet this was not the chief ...
... amuse- ment , more of animal spirits , to say nothing of in- tellectual vigour , than would have been considered by any other man in the company as sufficient for the whole expenditure of a week's existence . Yet this was not the chief ...
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18th Hussars 66 Edinburgh Abbotsford acquaintance Adam Fergusson admirable affection affectionate Allan Allan Cunningham amuse appeared attend author of Marmion Author of Waverley Bailie beautiful believe Blair-Adam Bride of Lammermoor brother Captain Castle Chantrey character Charles Constable Cornet course Darnick daughter Dear Lord Dear Walter death delight Ditton Ditton Park Duke of Buccleuch Erskine father favour feelings Galashiels give Grace habits hand happy heard honour hope horse Ivanhoe J. G. Lockhart John Ballantyne kind labour Lady Laird letter Lockhart London look Lord Montagu Lord Sidmouth Lordship manners matter mind morning never novelist novels occasion person pleasure poor present Prince received regiment scene Scotland seemed Sir Thomas Sir Walter soon Sophia sort spirit suppose Terry thing thought tion Tom Purdie truly WALTER SCOTT whole wish write young
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190. oldal - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
177. oldal - But- a glance on the great picture of life will show, that the duties of self-denial, and the sacrifice of passion to principle, are seldom thus remunerated ; and that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces on their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give or take away.
171. oldal - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
101. oldal - Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, Or rather like tragedy giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud: And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own.
68. oldal - But when dialogue of peculiar animation was in progress, spirit seemed to triumph altogether over matter — he arose from his couch and walked up and down the room, raisingand lowering his voice, and as it were acting the parts. It was in this fashion that Scott produced the far greater portion of The Bride of Lammermoor — the whole of the Legend of Montrose — and almost the whole of Ivanhoe.
243. oldal - So passed the winter's day ; but still, . When summer smiled on sweet Bowhill, And July's eve, with balmy breath, Waved the blue-bells on Newark heath ; When throstles sung in Hare-head shaw, And corn was green on Carterhaugh, And flourished, broad, Blackandro's oak, The aged Harper's soul awoke...
246. oldal - Laidlaw whispering to me, one night, when their " rapt talk " had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh, sirs...
249. oldal - as long as my arm," beginning with thanks to the Almighty, who had given man dominion over the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field, and...
194. oldal - Indeed he did not confine this humanity to his own people. Any steady servant of a friend of his was soon considered as a sort of friend too, and was sure to have a kind little colloquy to himself at coming and going.
349. oldal - Almighty to witness his resolution to maintain their laws and privileges, whilst they called, at the same moment, on the Divine Being, to bear witness that they accepted him for their liege Sovereign, and pledged to him their love and their duty. I cannot describe to you the effect produced by the solemn, yet strange mixture of...