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... took by surprise a literary friend , Miss Cranstoun , and caused her to exclaim , " Upon my word , Walter Scott is going to turn out a poet , something of a cross between Burns and Gray ! " In 1795 Scott was appointed one of the ...
... took by surprise a literary friend , Miss Cranstoun , and caused her to exclaim , " Upon my word , Walter Scott is going to turn out a poet , something of a cross between Burns and Gray ! " In 1795 Scott was appointed one of the ...
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... took a modest house in Castle Street , being then twenty - six years of age . The marriage turned out to be a happy one , al- though convenance had something to do with it . Of course , so healthy and romantic a nature as Scott's had ...
... took a modest house in Castle Street , being then twenty - six years of age . The marriage turned out to be a happy one , al- though convenance had something to do with it . Of course , so healthy and romantic a nature as Scott's had ...
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... took a cottage at Lasswade near Edinburgh , and began there the fascinat- ing pursuit of tree - planting and " place " -making . His vacations when the Courts were not in session were spent in excursions to mountain scenery and those ...
... took a cottage at Lasswade near Edinburgh , and began there the fascinat- ing pursuit of tree - planting and " place " -making . His vacations when the Courts were not in session were spent in excursions to mountain scenery and those ...
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... took the fashionable and literary world by storm . The novel had been partly written for several years , but was laid aside , as his edition of Swift and his essays for the supplement of the " Encyclopædia Britannica , " and other prose ...
... took the fashionable and literary world by storm . The novel had been partly written for several years , but was laid aside , as his edition of Swift and his essays for the supplement of the " Encyclopædia Britannica , " and other prose ...
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... took place the first meet- ing of these two great bards , and their successive inter- views were graced with mutual compliments . Scott did not think that Byron's reading was extensive either in poetry or history , in which opinion the ...
... took place the first meet- ing of these two great bards , and their successive inter- views were graced with mutual compliments . Scott did not think that Byron's reading was extensive either in poetry or history , in which opinion the ...
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Página 336 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollities.
Página 85 - As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 175 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,— 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Página 387 - Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.
Página 240 - To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time ; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle ! Life 's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Página 164 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Página 475 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Página 378 - But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or on the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it.
Página 378 - Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People...
Página 85 - 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 stand?