The genius and wisdom of sir Walter Scott, comprising moral, religious, political, literary, and social aphorisms, selected carefully from his various writings. With a memoirJ. Chidley, 1839 - 204 páginas |
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... Disposition to Exertion inherent in All . 63 Effect of Kindness .. Scottish Country Doctor Genius over common - place Talents Poetry of Crime .... 64 65 68 69 The best Government . Swiss Republic .. 70 71 ...... America British Army ...
... Disposition to Exertion inherent in All . 63 Effect of Kindness .. Scottish Country Doctor Genius over common - place Talents Poetry of Crime .... 64 65 68 69 The best Government . Swiss Republic .. 70 71 ...... America British Army ...
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... disposed of . Many other editions of this poem followed , and down to the year 1838 the legitimate sale of " The Lady of the Lake " had been no less than 50,000 copies . In 1810 , when the eleventh edition of " The Lay of the Last ...
... disposed of . Many other editions of this poem followed , and down to the year 1838 the legitimate sale of " The Lady of the Lake " had been no less than 50,000 copies . In 1810 , when the eleventh edition of " The Lay of the Last ...
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... disposed of . The name of the author was kept secret . Mr. Ballan- tyne had the original MS . transcribed under his own eye by confidential persons : double proof sheets were printed off ; one was forwarded to the author , and the ...
... disposed of . The name of the author was kept secret . Mr. Ballan- tyne had the original MS . transcribed under his own eye by confidential persons : double proof sheets were printed off ; one was forwarded to the author , and the ...
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... disposition of them . His sentences , are too full of expletives , -too long , and loosely arranged ; exuberant like his fancy , and untrim- med , as if never subjected to a process of com- pression , -a lenior labor , perhaps ...
... disposition of them . His sentences , are too full of expletives , -too long , and loosely arranged ; exuberant like his fancy , and untrim- med , as if never subjected to a process of com- pression , -a lenior labor , perhaps ...
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... apprehended some disgust from the supposed levity and thoughtless gaiety of a disposition so different from his own . Now it has frequently happened that when we ( with that urbanity and good humour which 16 THE WISDOM AND GENIUS.
... apprehended some disgust from the supposed levity and thoughtless gaiety of a disposition so different from his own . Now it has frequently happened that when we ( with that urbanity and good humour which 16 THE WISDOM AND GENIUS.
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Abbotsford acquired admiration affection afford amusement Ballantyne beauty betwixt bosom Bride of Lammermoor British army Buonaparte Buonaparte's Byron character circumstances course danger delight disposition doubt endeavour equally evil exertion existence eyes fancy favourable favourite feelings fortune France French genius give gratification habits happiness heart honour house of Bourbon human imagination influence interest James Ballantyne king labour Lady language less literary literature Lockhart look Lord Lord Byron Madame de Stael manner Marmion marriage melan ment mind moral motives Napoleon nation natural never novel object OLIVER CROMWELL ordinary passion patriotism perhaps person perusal pleasure poem poet poetry political possessed princes racter rank reader religion Scotland Scottish seems seldom SIR WALTER SCOTT society soldiers sometimes spirit strong suffer supposed Suwarrow sympathy talents thing thought tion TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE Waverley wealth whole wise youth
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Página 33 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Página 35 - CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 168 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Página 35 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 168 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore. Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Página 154 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 81 - ... those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the...
Página 114 - The whole scene floats as a sort of dream before me — the beautiful day, the grey ruins covered and hidden among clouds of foliage and flourish, where the grave, even in the lap of beauty, lay lurking and gaped for its prey. Then the grave looks, the hasty important bustle of men with spades and mattocks — the train of carriages — the coffin containing the creature that was so long the dearest on earth to me, and whom I was to consign to the very spot which in pleasure-parties we so frequently...
Página xlvi - Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog, or turn devotee, and intoxicate the brain another way.
Página xvii - I last night supped in Mr Walter Scott's. He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on : it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. 'There's the mast gone,' says he; 'crash it goes ! — they will all perish ! ' After his agitation, he turns to me. 'That is too melancholy,' says he; 'I had better read you something more amusing.