Bride of Lammermoor - Peveril of the peakRobert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker & Company London., 1833 |
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4. oldal
... successful in what she un- dertook , that the vulgar , no way partial to her husband or her family , imputed her success to necromancy . According to the popular belief , this Dame Margaret purchased the temporal prosperity of her ...
... successful in what she un- dertook , that the vulgar , no way partial to her husband or her family , imputed her success to necromancy . According to the popular belief , this Dame Margaret purchased the temporal prosperity of her ...
37. oldal
... successful . The contempt of commerce entertained by young men having some pretence to gentility , the poverty of the country of Scotland , the national disposition to wandering and to adventure , all conduced to lead the Scots abroad ...
... successful . The contempt of commerce entertained by young men having some pretence to gentility , the poverty of the country of Scotland , the national disposition to wandering and to adventure , all conduced to lead the Scots abroad ...
56. oldal
... successful , but the natives of the Island , MacLeods and MacKenzies , rose on the Low- land adventurers , and put most of them to the sword . INTERPOLATED PASSAGE ; after the paragraph in the text ending " when the fellow had ...
... successful , but the natives of the Island , MacLeods and MacKenzies , rose on the Low- land adventurers , and put most of them to the sword . INTERPOLATED PASSAGE ; after the paragraph in the text ending " when the fellow had ...
63. oldal
... success . It was plain , however , that frequent publication must finally wear out the public fa- vour , unless some mode could be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions . Scottish manners , Scottish dia ...
... success . It was plain , however , that frequent publication must finally wear out the public fa- vour , unless some mode could be devised to give an appearance of novelty to subsequent productions . Scottish manners , Scottish dia ...
64. oldal
... success only in a particular and limited style . The public are , in general , very ready to adopt the opinion , that he who has pleased them in one peculiar mode of composition , is , by means of that very talent , rendered incapable ...
... success only in a particular and limited style . The public are , in general , very ready to adopt the opinion , that he who has pleased them in one peculiar mode of composition , is , by means of that very talent , rendered incapable ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Abbot afterwards ancient appears Ardvoirlich betwixt Blood BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR called Captain Castle character church Countess Countess of Derby court Cumnor curious dance David Ramsay death Deemster Douglas Duke Earl of Derby Edinburgh Edward Christian England executed fairy father favour fortune FORTUNES OF NIGEL gentleman George Heriot give hand hath heard honour horse inhabitants island Isle James Kennaquhair Kilpont King King's lady Laird land lived Lord Majesty manner Melrose Montrose murder narrative never night occasion Oliphaunt party pass Peel Castle person plot Popish Plot present prisoner Queen reader received reign romance Saint scene Scotland Scottish seems seen Sir John Stair Stewart stone story supposed sword taken tale thing Thomas Blood thou thy fate tion told Tower William Christian William de Douglas William Dhône young Zetland
Népszerű szakaszok
438. oldal - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
211. oldal - The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the -sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, * Save an unhappy lady's sighs, . That issued from that lonely pile.
7. oldal - If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
185. oldal - Lifted her up, a weary weight, Over the threshold of the gate : Then the lady rose again, And moved, as she were not in pain. So free from danger, free from fear, They cross'd the court : right glad they were. And Christabel devoutly cried To the lady by her side ; ' Praise we the Virgin all divine Who hath rescued thee from thy distress!' 'Alas, alas!' said Geraldine, ' I cannot speak for weariness.
212. oldal - I'm told, is beauty's throne, Where every lady's passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. "Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose, whose pale shades Must sicken when those gauds are by? '"Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare.
80. oldal - ... than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which Providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit ; and it is a dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded by, the gratification of our passions, or attainment of our wishes. In a word, if a virtuous and self-denied character is dismissed with temporal...
408. oldal - Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
180. oldal - Sir this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you, it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not.
131. oldal - But though such an unconnected course of adventures is what most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality...
211. oldal - No lark more blithe, no flower more gay ; And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. "If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful earl, it well was prized?