Chambers's supplementary reader, selected from Miscellany of instructive and entertaining tracts, Edição 4 |
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... novelist was daughter to an eminent medical pro- fessor of the Edinburgh University , Dr Rutherford . Simple worth and good manners alone distinguished this couple , whose lot it was to have six children that survived infancy , of whom ...
... novelist was daughter to an eminent medical pro- fessor of the Edinburgh University , Dr Rutherford . Simple worth and good manners alone distinguished this couple , whose lot it was to have six children that survived infancy , of whom ...
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... novels ; the Secret Memoirs of the Court of James I .; and some other books agreeable to his own taste , but hardly to that of the public . These huge indigestible masses of paper and print had brought his outlay in the printing and ...
... novels ; the Secret Memoirs of the Court of James I .; and some other books agreeable to his own taste , but hardly to that of the public . These huge indigestible masses of paper and print had brought his outlay in the printing and ...
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... novelist . Scott had , so early as 1805 , commenced a prose fiction on the manners of the Highlanders , which he designated Waverley , or , ' Tis Sixty Years Since . Discouraged by the unfavourable opinion of his friends regarding the ...
... novelist . Scott had , so early as 1805 , commenced a prose fiction on the manners of the Highlanders , which he designated Waverley , or , ' Tis Sixty Years Since . Discouraged by the unfavourable opinion of his friends regarding the ...
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... novels , and awakened great curiosity regarding the unknown author . Always unconcerned about the fate of his works ... novel he might produce . But the opinion of Walter Scott regarding the literary powers of his contemporaries was of ...
... novels , and awakened great curiosity regarding the unknown author . Always unconcerned about the fate of his works ... novel he might produce . But the opinion of Walter Scott regarding the literary powers of his contemporaries was of ...
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... novel of The Antiquary , perhaps , of all his works , the one in which there is most of the current matter of his own mind . It was scarcely published before he had designed his Tales of My Landlord , the first series of which came out ...
... novel of The Antiquary , perhaps , of all his works , the one in which there is most of the current matter of his own mind . It was scarcely published before he had designed his Tales of My Landlord , the first series of which came out ...
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Página 14 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Página 18 - The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And ' Stanley ! ' was the cry. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye ; With dying hand above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted ' Victory ! — Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!
Página 10 - Thou know'st it well, —nor fen, nor sedge, Pollute the pure lake's crystal edge ; Abrupt and sheer, the mountains sink At once upon the level brink ; And just a trace of silver sand Marks where the water meets the land. Far in the mirror, bright and blue, Each hill's huge outline you may view...
Página 1 - 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 18 - The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid...
Página 20 - E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread: What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue—- Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear.
Página 13 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm'd, and he rode all alone.
Página 17 - 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 27 - The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Página 14 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung ! — "She is won ! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur ! They'll have fleet steeds that follow !