The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 pages |
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... rendered mean , by the disproportioned space which divides them , and tame , from their unadorned uniformity . If ... render privacy impossible ; where you sometimes pass into magnificent saloons , through the meanest and darkest of all ...
... rendered mean , by the disproportioned space which divides them , and tame , from their unadorned uniformity . If ... render privacy impossible ; where you sometimes pass into magnificent saloons , through the meanest and darkest of all ...
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... rendered that valour fruitless , the hour of the evening , gradually sinking from twilight into darkness , suited well with the melancholy subject of my enquiries . Broad flashes of lambent lightning illuminated , from time to time ...
... rendered that valour fruitless , the hour of the evening , gradually sinking from twilight into darkness , suited well with the melancholy subject of my enquiries . Broad flashes of lambent lightning illuminated , from time to time ...
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... rendered less active as a swordsman by the unpliable armour in which he is sheathed , is outstripped , out - manœuvred , and cut down , by his more agile opponent . Of the infantry of the French , it was impossible to speak too highly ...
... rendered less active as a swordsman by the unpliable armour in which he is sheathed , is outstripped , out - manœuvred , and cut down , by his more agile opponent . Of the infantry of the French , it was impossible to speak too highly ...
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... rendered permanent by the slaughter that awaited them . † Fears for their own safety mingled with anxiety for their brave defenders , and the agony of suspense sustained by those who remained in Brussels to await the issue of the day ...
... rendered permanent by the slaughter that awaited them . † Fears for their own safety mingled with anxiety for their brave defenders , and the agony of suspense sustained by those who remained in Brussels to await the issue of the day ...
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... rendered more murder- ous by the French having the advantage of the rising ground ; while our soldiers , sunk to the shoulders among the tall rye , could not re- turn the volleys with the same precision of aim . They were next ex- posed ...
... rendered more murder- ous by the French having the advantage of the rising ground ; while our soldiers , sunk to the shoulders among the tall rye , could not re- turn the volleys with the same precision of aim . They were next ex- posed ...
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Page 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Page 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Page 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 295 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Page 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Page 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Page 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 300 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.