The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5 |
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... various ornaments , and terminating in roofs , the slope of which is con- cealed from the eye by windows and gables still more highly orna- mented ; the whole comprising a general effect , which , from its grandeur and intricacy ...
... various ornaments , and terminating in roofs , the slope of which is con- cealed from the eye by windows and gables still more highly orna- mented ; the whole comprising a general effect , which , from its grandeur and intricacy ...
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... various assaults were made , and the spots where several of the gallant leaders fell . I cannot rest implicit faith in his narrative , because I know , and you know still better , how difficult it is to procure a just and minute account ...
... various assaults were made , and the spots where several of the gallant leaders fell . I cannot rest implicit faith in his narrative , because I know , and you know still better , how difficult it is to procure a just and minute account ...
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... various classes ; and the original emigrants , whose object it was to restore the royal authority by the sword , looked with dislike and aversion upon the various classes of exiles of a later date , whom each successive wave of the ...
... various classes ; and the original emigrants , whose object it was to restore the royal authority by the sword , looked with dislike and aversion upon the various classes of exiles of a later date , whom each successive wave of the ...
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... various causes , the measures of Louis XVIII . , without having originally any purpose of throwing themselves into the arms of Bonaparte . To this desperate step they were probably induced by the frank and universal adhesion of the army ...
... various causes , the measures of Louis XVIII . , without having originally any purpose of throwing themselves into the arms of Bonaparte . To this desperate step they were probably induced by the frank and universal adhesion of the army ...
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... glory , by again placing on the throne him , under whose auspices and by whose unparalleled military success , it had been formerly raised to the highest pitch of military splendour . Such was the influence of the various causes which I.
... glory , by again placing on the throne him , under whose auspices and by whose unparalleled military success , it had been formerly raised to the highest pitch of military splendour . Such was the influence of the various causes which I.
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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.