 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 310 Seiten
...the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ;—those passions common 4o men in all stages of society, and which have alike...these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws casts a necessary colouring; but the bearings, to use the language of heraldry,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 308 Seiten
...possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors;—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and...these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws cast a necessary colouring; but the bearings, to use the language of heraldry,... | |
 | 1823 - 474 Seiten
...use the words of a great writer to whom we have already referred more than once in this paper, are " common to men in all stages of society, and which...frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day *." The classic habits might be added to the list. Hence is it that the Greek tragedies are so much... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 780 Seiten
...as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors; — those passions common to men in all stages...century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blne frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day. * Upon these passions it is no doubt true... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 Seiten
...understood to have resolved to throw the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ; those passions common to men in all stages...these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws casts a necessary colouring; but the bearings, to use the language of heraldry,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 Seiten
...drained, to bring the best and ablest down to that of fools. HUMAN NATURE THE SAME IN ALL AGES. There are passions common to men in all stages of society, and...these passions it is, no doubt, true, that the state of manners and laws casts a necessary colouring; but the bearings, to use the language of heraldry,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 436 Seiten
...as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ; — those passions common to men in all stages...these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws casts a necessary colouring ; but the bearings, to use the language of heraldry,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 Seiten
...as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters ana passions of the actors ¡—those passions common to men in all stages...throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth cen tiiry, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the bliw frock and white dimity waistcoat of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 508 Seiten
...as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors; — those passions common to men in all stages...fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, ortheblue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day. * Upon these passions it is no doubt... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 Seiten
...and passions of the actors; — those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which hare alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed...century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the bfae frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.1 Upon these passions it is no doubt true... | |
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... those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat... 
