The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 pages |
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... side at ** , who are accustomed to take their ideas of a fine street from Portland Place , or from the George Street of Edinburgh , where a long and uniform breadth of causeway extends between two rows of ordinary houses of three ...
... side at ** , who are accustomed to take their ideas of a fine street from Portland Place , or from the George Street of Edinburgh , where a long and uniform breadth of causeway extends between two rows of ordinary houses of three ...
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... side by a dunghill , on the other by a heap of coals , or peats . These statistics , my dear Margaret , rather fall in the Laird's province than yours . But your departments border closely upon each other ; for those facts , in which he ...
... side by a dunghill , on the other by a heap of coals , or peats . These statistics , my dear Margaret , rather fall in the Laird's province than yours . But your departments border closely upon each other ; for those facts , in which he ...
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... side , and such supine negligence on the other , joined to a state of public feeling so favourable to his enterprise , one is scarcely surprised at Napoleon's wonderful success . The mass of the army went over to him as one man ; and ...
... side , and such supine negligence on the other , joined to a state of public feeling so favourable to his enterprise , one is scarcely surprised at Napoleon's wonderful success . The mass of the army went over to him as one man ; and ...
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... side the storm was to burst . There is little doubt , that Bonaparte , reckoning upon the success of Murat , or hoping at least on his making a permanent diversion , had destined the north of Italy for the first scene of active and ...
... side the storm was to burst . There is little doubt , that Bonaparte , reckoning upon the success of Murat , or hoping at least on his making a permanent diversion , had destined the north of Italy for the first scene of active and ...
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... sides , through the whole of the afternoon . But in this species of warfare the Prussians sustained a much heavier loss than their antagonists , their masses being drawn up in an exposed situation upon the ridge and sides of the heights ...
... sides , through the whole of the afternoon . But in this species of warfare the Prussians sustained a much heavier loss than their antagonists , their masses being drawn up in an exposed situation upon the ridge and sides of the heights ...
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Popular passages
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.