Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart..Robert Cadell, Edinburgh. John Murray and Whittaker and Company, London., 1837 - 486 oldal |
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235. oldal - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
235. oldal - Hath rent a strange and shatter* d way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high...
338. oldal - He was often melancholy, — almost gloomy. When I observed him in this humour, I used either to wait till it went off 'of its own accord, or till some natural and easy mode occurred of leading him into conversation, when the shadows almost always left his countenance, like the mist rising from a landscape. In conversation he was very animated.
44. oldal - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long quarto stages, to town ; And beginning with Rokeby (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the gentlemen's seats on the way. Now, the scheme is (though none of our hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh poet through Highgate to meet him ; Who by means of quick proofs — no revises — long coaches — May do a few villas, before Sc — tt approaches.
25. oldal - To my Gothic ear, indeed, the Stabat Mater, the Dies Ira-, and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church, are more solemn and affecting than the fine classical poetry of Buchanan ; the one has the gloomy dignity of a Gothic church, and reminds us instantly of the worship to which it is dedicated ; the other is more like a Pagan temple, recalling to our memory the classical and fabulous deities...
336. oldal - Hardyknute, an imitation of the old Scottish ballad, with which he was so much affected that some one who was in the same apartment asked me what I could possibly have been telling Byron by which he was so much agitated.
15. oldal - I observed him noting down even the peculiar little wild flowers and herbs that accidentally grew round and on the side of a bold crag near his intended cave of Guy Denzil; and could not help saying, that as he was not to be upon...
304. oldal - I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of vivifying all her persons, and making them live as beings in your mind, I should not be afraid...
335. oldal - I suppose you are one of those who prophesy I shall turn Methodist.' I replied, ' No—I don't expect your conversion to be of such an ordinary kind. I would rather look to see you retreat upon the Catholic faith, and distinguish yourself by the austerity of your penances. The species of religion to which you must, or may, one day attach yourself, must exercise a strong power on the imagination.
290. oldal - Lord. Lord, if these homekeeping minstrels had crossed your Atlantic or my Mediterranean, and tasted a little open boating in a white squall — or a gale in 'the Gut' — or the 'Bay of Biscay,' with no gale at all— how it would enliven and introduce them to a few of the sensations!— to say nothing of an illicit amour or two upon shore, in the way of...