The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 pages |
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... spirit in France , -the prevalence of Jacobinical opinions , -the reign of mobs , and of domiciliary visits , -the horrors of the lantern , and of the guillotine . And thou , my dear sister , whose life has been one unwearied course of ...
... spirit in France , -the prevalence of Jacobinical opinions , -the reign of mobs , and of domiciliary visits , -the horrors of the lantern , and of the guillotine . And thou , my dear sister , whose life has been one unwearied course of ...
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... spirit of France was again roused to hope and energy ; and the whole kingdom seemed trans- formed at once into an immense camp , of which Napoleon was the leader and soul . One large army defiled towards Belgium , where the ...
... spirit of France was again roused to hope and energy ; and the whole kingdom seemed trans- formed at once into an immense camp , of which Napoleon was the leader and soul . One large army defiled towards Belgium , where the ...
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... spirit and courage , as well as for his experience in the Peninsular war , - " What would the Spaniards have done ... spirits of those by whom these defences were maintained . The French have since asserted , that their ill success was ...
... spirit and courage , as well as for his experience in the Peninsular war , - " What would the Spaniards have done ... spirits of those by whom these defences were maintained . The French have since asserted , that their ill success was ...
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... spirit of the fanfaronade by which his conduct was frequently distinguished . In passing a battery of fourteen guns near to the obser- vatory , he ordered that before they were deserted fourteen rounds should be fired from each ; -as if ...
... spirit of the fanfaronade by which his conduct was frequently distinguished . In passing a battery of fourteen guns near to the obser- vatory , he ordered that before they were deserted fourteen rounds should be fired from each ; -as if ...
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... spirit and rapidity . The fire of the enemy from one hundred and fifty pieces of artillery did not stop them for a single mo- ment , and in a short time the French artillerymen deserted their guns , cut loose their traces , and mingled ...
... spirit and rapidity . The fire of the enemy from one hundred and fifty pieces of artillery did not stop them for a single mo- ment , and in a short time the French artillerymen deserted their guns , cut loose their traces , and mingled ...
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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.