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... less to borrow -and that he too has drawn freely and largely from the sources that were open to him ; at least for his fable and graver sentiment ; for his wit and humour , as well as his poetry , are always his In our times , all the ...
... less to borrow -and that he too has drawn freely and largely from the sources that were open to him ; at least for his fable and graver sentiment ; for his wit and humour , as well as his poetry , are always his In our times , all the ...
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... less danger from such detections , than any other we have ever met with ; but , e- ven in him , the traces of imitation are obvious and abundant ; and it is impossible , therefore , to give him the same credit for absolute originality ...
... less danger from such detections , than any other we have ever met with ; but , e- ven in him , the traces of imitation are obvious and abundant ; and it is impossible , therefore , to give him the same credit for absolute originality ...
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... less variety of incident , than any of the ner productions : -and it is accordingly , in some paratively languid . The Porteous mob is rather ribed ; and the whole part of George Robertson , or extravagant and unpleasing . The final ...
... less variety of incident , than any of the ner productions : -and it is accordingly , in some paratively languid . The Porteous mob is rather ribed ; and the whole part of George Robertson , or extravagant and unpleasing . The final ...
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... less descri tion of scenery , and less sympathy with external nature , in th than in any of the other tales . > The Bride of Lammerinoor is more sketchy and roma tic than the usual vein of the author - and loses , perhaps , in th ...
... less descri tion of scenery , and less sympathy with external nature , in th than in any of the other tales . > The Bride of Lammerinoor is more sketchy and roma tic than the usual vein of the author - and loses , perhaps , in th ...
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... less known to them than the Highlanders and Cameronians of the present . This was the great difficulty the author had to con- tend with , and the great disadvantage of the subject with which he had to deal . Nobody now alive can have a ...
... less known to them than the Highlanders and Cameronians of the present . This was the great difficulty the author had to con- tend with , and the great disadvantage of the subject with which he had to deal . Nobody now alive can have a ...
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Page 76 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 139 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 76 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 10 - One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. On this singular gorget was engraved in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—" Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.
Page 77 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Page 20 - When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch. Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
Page 38 - Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and of the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, "He is down! - he is down!" "Who is down?" cried Ivanhoe; "for our dear Lady's sake, tell me which has fallen?" "The Black Knight/' answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness - "But no - but no!
Page 38 - I see him now ; he leads a body of men close under the outer barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades ; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back ! — Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; — I see his gigantic form above the press.
Page 343 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 9 - ... in some places they were intermingled with beeches hollies and copsewood of various descriptions so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun in others they receded from each other forming those long sweeping vistas in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude...