The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 17R. Cadell, 1835 |
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... writers in every class and upon every subject , departed farther from its original than the two others ; but still the ground - work is the Latin ; and the more nearly any specimen approaches to it , it may be safe- ly concluded to be ...
... writers in every class and upon every subject , departed farther from its original than the two others ; but still the ground - work is the Latin ; and the more nearly any specimen approaches to it , it may be safe- ly concluded to be ...
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... writers are comba- ted with apparent success from an intimate ac- quaintance with authorities of the middle ages . Indeed , we have been long of opinion , that Mr Ritson was , both by talent and disposition , better qualified to assail ...
... writers are comba- ted with apparent success from an intimate ac- quaintance with authorities of the middle ages . Indeed , we have been long of opinion , that Mr Ritson was , both by talent and disposition , better qualified to assail ...
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... writer of tragedy or comedy on the players of the present day . A copyist might multiply manuscripts for the supply ... writers , in the merely mechanical parts of poetry ; they were also better judges 34 POETICAL CRITICISM .
... writer of tragedy or comedy on the players of the present day . A copyist might multiply manuscripts for the supply ... writers , in the merely mechanical parts of poetry ; they were also better judges 34 POETICAL CRITICISM .
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... Norman minstrels , as well as between the former and their brethren of Armorica . a " But as there is reason to believe that the British lays were seldom if ever committed to writing , it might be 38 POETICAL CRITICISM .
... Norman minstrels , as well as between the former and their brethren of Armorica . a " But as there is reason to believe that the British lays were seldom if ever committed to writing , it might be 38 POETICAL CRITICISM .
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Walter Scott. seldom if ever committed to writing , it might be expected that different minstrels would tell the same story with some variations ; that , unable to retain in their memory the whole of a long nar- rative , they would carry ...
Walter Scott. seldom if ever committed to writing , it might be expected that different minstrels would tell the same story with some variations ; that , unable to retain in their memory the whole of a long nar- rative , they would carry ...
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Page 343 - STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me.
Page 86 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 247 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 332 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Page 259 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 343 - Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy ! But unto us she hath a spell beyond Her name in story...
Page 342 - The foe, the fool, the jealous, and the vain, The envious who but breathe in others' pain, Behold the host ! delighting to deprave, Who track the steps of Glory to the grave, Watch...
Page 277 - Touch'd by the music, and the melting scene, Was scarce one tearless eye amidst the crowd : — Stern warriors, resting on their swords, were seen To veil their eyes, as pass'd each much-loved shroud, While woman's softer soul in woe dissolved aloud.
Page 285 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Page 278 - And by my side, in battle true, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? Ah ! there, in desolation cold, The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each mouldering bone, And stones themselves to ruin grown, Like me, are death-like old.