The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 |
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... honour , by an accumulated and overwhelming pressure . When the resolution of retreat was adopted , it was accomplished with a dexterous celerity , as re- markable as the audacity of the advance . With Ligonier's army on one flank , and ...
... honour , by an accumulated and overwhelming pressure . When the resolution of retreat was adopted , it was accomplished with a dexterous celerity , as re- markable as the audacity of the advance . With Ligonier's army on one flank , and ...
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... honour , which was well maintained , since they left nearly the half of their army upon the field . What causes , at this critical period , distracted those councils which had hitherto exhibited saga- city and military talent , it would ...
... honour , which was well maintained , since they left nearly the half of their army upon the field . What causes , at this critical period , distracted those councils which had hitherto exhibited saga- city and military talent , it would ...
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... Honour- able Mr Elphinstone , we were forcibly struck with the curious points of parallelism between the man- ners of the Afghaun tribes and those of the an- cient Highland clans . They resembled these Ori- ental mountaineers in their ...
... Honour- able Mr Elphinstone , we were forcibly struck with the curious points of parallelism between the man- ners of the Afghaun tribes and those of the an- cient Highland clans . They resembled these Ori- ental mountaineers in their ...
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... honour of my kin , To strike him dead I hold it not a sin . " Accordingly , when they stood up to dance , and he found himself compelled to touch the hands and approach the persons of his detested enemies , the deadly feud broke forth ...
... honour of my kin , To strike him dead I hold it not a sin . " Accordingly , when they stood up to dance , and he found himself compelled to touch the hands and approach the persons of his detested enemies , the deadly feud broke forth ...
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... honour after the chief , whether the representative of the eldest or of the youngest branch ; and as this was a point undecided in the year 1745 , ' it cannot be doubted that so important a difference must repeatedly have drawn blood ...
... honour after the chief , whether the representative of the eldest or of the youngest branch ; and as this was a point undecided in the year 1745 , ' it cannot be doubted that so important a difference must repeatedly have drawn blood ...
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Seite 175 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Seite 109 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth...
Seite 328 - Habitus corporum varii, atque ex eo argumenta. Namque rutilae Caledoniam habitantium comae, magni artus Germanicam originem asseverant. Silurum colorati vultus, torti plerumque crines, et posita contra Hispania Iberos veteres traiecisse easque sedes occupasse fidem faciunt. Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Seite 114 - Knipp took us all in. and brought to us Nelly, a most pretty woman, who acted the great part of 'Coelia' to-day very fine, and did it pretty well; I kissed her. and so did my wife, and a mighty pretty soul she is.
Seite 278 - ... it is the pert, superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent of each other ; and, in science, so many natural miracles, as it were, have been brought to light, — such as the fall of stones from meteors in the atmosphere, the disarming a...
Seite 243 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Seite 111 - Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Seite 205 - But fill'd, in elder time, the historic page. There, Shakespeare's self, with every garland crown'd, Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen, In musing hour, his wayward Sisters found, And with their terrors drest the magic scene. From them he sung, when, 'mid his bold design, Before the Scot, afflicted, and aghast ! The shadowy kings of Banquo's fated line Through the dark cave in gleamy pageant pass'd.
Seite 4 - Walpole, paints an indifference yet more ominous to the public cause than the general panic : — " the common people in town at least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here...
Seite 140 - Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner — viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese.