Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...Carey & Hart, 1841 |
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... been remarkable on the former occasion , it now seemed as if some super- natural power stood in alliance with him . Every attempt which he made succeeded - every card turned up propi- 26 MISCELLANIES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... been remarkable on the former occasion , it now seemed as if some super- natural power stood in alliance with him . Every attempt which he made succeeded - every card turned up propi- 26 MISCELLANIES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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... of his life Hoffmann had occasion to show , that his singularly wild and inflated fancy was not accessible to that degree of timidity connected with insanity , and to which poets , as being of " imagination HOFFMANN'S NOVELS . 27.
... of his life Hoffmann had occasion to show , that his singularly wild and inflated fancy was not accessible to that degree of timidity connected with insanity , and to which poets , as being of " imagination HOFFMANN'S NOVELS . 27.
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... occasion a surfeit or some other fatal disease . This presentiment haunted him until he reached the house of a friend , and it was akin to many which persecuted him during life , never leaving him to enjoy the satisfaction of a kind or ...
... occasion a surfeit or some other fatal disease . This presentiment haunted him until he reached the house of a friend , and it was akin to many which persecuted him during life , never leaving him to enjoy the satisfaction of a kind or ...
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... occasion , for he was not my ordinary agent , say to him , that he may remember it by the token that there was some trouble about procuring change for a double Por- tugal piece when I settled my account with him . " The vision was ...
... occasion , for he was not my ordinary agent , say to him , that he may remember it by the token that there was some trouble about procuring change for a double Por- tugal piece when I settled my account with him . " The vision was ...
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... occasion was prepared and placed in the hands of the am- bassador , that celebrated letter to her Majesty Queen Char- lotte from the king of Persia's chief wife , -assuredly one of the most extravagant morsels of Oriental bombast that ...
... occasion was prepared and placed in the hands of the am- bassador , that celebrated letter to her Majesty Queen Char- lotte from the king of Persia's chief wife , -assuredly one of the most extravagant morsels of Oriental bombast that ...
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Seite 13 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Seite 12 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Seite 45 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Seite 31 - When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, I grieve, making great...
Seite 412 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Seite 204 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Seite 12 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Seite 12 - ... shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb: Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, — For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible and sublime to the last degree.
Seite 13 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Seite 157 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.