Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, Band 1Macmillan, 1900 Sir Walter Scott's liv beskrevet og annoteret af hans svigersøn. |
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Seite 95 - weary of repeating the first stanza— The dews of summer night did fall— The Moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. I have thought it worth while to preserve these reminiscences of his companions at the time, though he
Seite 188 - there was some self-deception on the part of our romantic friend, and I now shudder at the violence of his most irritable and ungovernable mind. Who is it that says, " Men have died, and worms have eaten them, but not for LOVE " ? I hope sincerely it may be verified on this occasion.' Miss . This is not good news. I always dreaded
Seite 96 - in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school—ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in
Seite 217 - be read by a candle particularly long in the snuff.) O, who rides by night thro' the woodland so wild ? It is the fond father embracing his child ; And close the boy nestles within his loved arm, To hold himself fast, and to keep himself warm. ' O father, sec yonder ! see yonder ! ' he says ; • My boy, upon what
Seite 67 - must be the poet's fancy," says he. But when he was told he was created perfect by God, he instantly yielded. When taken to bed last night, he told his aunt he liked that lady. " What lady ?" says she. '' Why, Mrs. Cockburn ; for I think she is a virtuoso like
Seite 199 - envy. The ghost nowhere makes his appearance so well as with you, or his exit so well as with Mr. Spenser. I like very much the recurrence of The scourge is red, the spur drops blood. The flashing pebbles flee ; but of William and Helen I had resolved to say nothing. Let me return to the Chase, of which the metric stanza
Seite 95 - man. As it was, I saw him one day at the late venerable Professor Fergusson's, where there were several gentlemen of literary reputation, among whom 1 remember the celebrated Mr. Dugald Stewart. Of course we youngsters
Seite 33 - such a reader remember that it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and that I would at this moment give half the reputation I have had the good
Seite 411 - MY DEAR SCOTT—. . . I was much pleased to hear of your engagement with Dryden : not that he is, as a poet, any great favourite of mine : I admire his talents and genius highly, but his is not a poetical genius. The only qualities I can find in Dryden that are essentially poetical,
Seite 165 - armour hanging on the walls, greatly contributed to the general effect of the whole. After a very hospitable reception from the late Peter Proctor, seneschal of the castle, I was conducted to my apartment in a distant part of the building. I must own, that when I heard door