A parallel of Shakspeare and Scott; 3 lectures on the kindred nature of their geniusWhittaker, 1835 - 81 pages |
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... amongst them ? This enthusiasm has not been confined to the poetic traveller , who has wandered down Gallawater - or stood at the foot of the ancient cross at Melrose - or looked * Hazlitt . up from the Teviot on the dismantled towers ...
... amongst them ? This enthusiasm has not been confined to the poetic traveller , who has wandered down Gallawater - or stood at the foot of the ancient cross at Melrose - or looked * Hazlitt . up from the Teviot on the dismantled towers ...
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... amongst persons who had it in their power to compare " Guy Mannering " with the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border . " Almost all the adventitious circumstances that give so much picturesque effect to the romance are to be found there ...
... amongst persons who had it in their power to compare " Guy Mannering " with the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border . " Almost all the adventitious circumstances that give so much picturesque effect to the romance are to be found there ...
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... amongst his tragedies . His comedies are more open to the objection , and yet how little would we wish to lose of the " Much ado about Nothing , " or of the exquisite " Twelfth Night ! " All writers of fiction are more or less open to ...
... amongst his tragedies . His comedies are more open to the objection , and yet how little would we wish to lose of the " Much ado about Nothing , " or of the exquisite " Twelfth Night ! " All writers of fiction are more or less open to ...
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... amongst many affecting touches of the like kind in low life -- that of the fisherman Mucklebacket , who , after many vain attempts to go on with his work , dashes his hammer against the boat , the unconscious instrument of his son's ...
... amongst many affecting touches of the like kind in low life -- that of the fisherman Mucklebacket , who , after many vain attempts to go on with his work , dashes his hammer against the boat , the unconscious instrument of his son's ...
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... amongst gen- tlemen . It remains for me to speak of the power of Scott's genius for the picturesque and the poetical , a subject that would afford matter for a whole lecture , or , indeed , many lectures , to do it justice : my analysis ...
... amongst gen- tlemen . It remains for me to speak of the power of Scott's genius for the picturesque and the poetical , a subject that would afford matter for a whole lecture , or , indeed , many lectures , to do it justice : my analysis ...
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Page 51 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Page 14 - It is but too true doctrine, friend Wamba, however it got into thy fool's pate." "Nay, I can tell you more," said Wamba, in the same tone; there is old Alderman Ox continues to hold his Saxon epithet, while he is under the charge of serfs and bondsmen such as thou, but becomes Beef, a fiery French gallant, when he arrives before the worshipful jaws that are destined to consume him. Mynheer Calf, too, becomes Monsieur de Veau in the like manner; he is Saxon when he requires tendance, and takes a Norman...
Page 75 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 14 - Swine, fool, swine," said the herd, " every fool knows that." "And swine is good Saxon," said the jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swineherd. "I am very glad every fool knows that too...
Page 39 - Saxon gentlemen are laughing," he said, " because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they may be very right ; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my word, and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a Hielandman, nor the honour of a gentleman.
Page 57 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 45 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 21 - Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say, there is no sin but to be rich ; And being rich, my virtue then shall be, To say, there is no vice but beggary.
Page 13 - Fangs, and leave the herd to their destiny, which, whether they meet with bands of travelling soldiers, or of outlaws, or of wandering pilgrims, can be little else than to be converted into Normans before morning, to thy no small ease and comfort." " The swine turned Normans to my comfort!" quoth Gurth; "expound that to me, Wamba, for my brain is too dull, and my mind too vexed, to read riddles.
Page 13 - I have consulted my legs upon this matter, and they are altogether of opinion that to carry my gay garments through these sloughs would be an act of unfriendship to my sovereign person and royal wardrobe ; wherefore, Gurth, I advise thee to call off Fangs, and leave the herd to their destiny, which, whether they meet with bands of travelling soldiers, or of outlaws, or of wandering pilgrims, can be little else than to be converted into Normans before morning, to thy no small ease and comfort.