The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 - France |
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... Celtic , once the language of all Britain , and being the descendants of those tribes which had been driven by the successive in- vasions of nations more politic than themselves , and better skilled in the regular arts of war , into the ...
... Celtic , once the language of all Britain , and being the descendants of those tribes which had been driven by the successive in- vasions of nations more politic than themselves , and better skilled in the regular arts of war , into the ...
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... Celtic origin , great antiquity , and in Churchill's phrase , " doubtless springs From great and glorious , but forgotten kings . " They were once possessed of Glenurchy , of the castle at the head of Lochowe , of Glendochart , Glenlyon ...
... Celtic origin , great antiquity , and in Churchill's phrase , " doubtless springs From great and glorious , but forgotten kings . " They were once possessed of Glenurchy , of the castle at the head of Lochowe , of Glendochart , Glenlyon ...
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... Celts , the most ancient inhabitants of Europe , " and who were to the others what the savages of America are to the ... Celts , in their progress through all Europe . It is not with this general statement that we are called upon to ...
... Celts , the most ancient inhabitants of Europe , " and who were to the others what the savages of America are to the ... Celts , in their progress through all Europe . It is not with this general statement that we are called upon to ...
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... Celts for the England - Lowland - Scottish and later Irish ( who are Irish and Scots ) , is extreme , and knows no bounds . " Elsewhere the same strain is pursued " The Celts of Scotland always are , and continue to be , a dishonoured ...
... Celts for the England - Lowland - Scottish and later Irish ( who are Irish and Scots ) , is extreme , and knows no bounds . " Elsewhere the same strain is pursued " The Celts of Scotland always are , and continue to be , a dishonoured ...
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... Celts shared all the miseries and privations incident to a people driven by preponderating force out of a country compara- tively fertile , and forced to defend their independ- ence among barren rocks and wildernesses . must also allow ...
... Celts shared all the miseries and privations incident to a people driven by preponderating force out of a country compara- tively fertile , and forced to defend their independ- ence among barren rocks and wildernesses . must also allow ...
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Page 175 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 109 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth...
Page 328 - Habitus corporum varii, atque ex eo argumenta. Namque rutilae Caledoniam habitantium comae, magni artus Germanicam originem asseverant. Silurum colorati vultus, torti plerumque crines, et posita contra Hispania Iberos veteres traiecisse easque sedes occupasse fidem faciunt. Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Page 114 - Knipp took us all in. and brought to us Nelly, a most pretty woman, who acted the great part of 'Coelia' to-day very fine, and did it pretty well; I kissed her. and so did my wife, and a mighty pretty soul she is.
Page 278 - ... it is the pert, superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. The deep philosopher sees chains of causes and effects so wonderfully and strangely linked together, that he is usually the last person to decide upon the impossibility of any two series of events being independent of each other ; and, in science, so many natural miracles, as it were, have been brought to light, — such as the fall of stones from meteors in the atmosphere, the disarming a...
Page 243 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Page 111 - Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Page 205 - But fill'd, in elder time, the historic page. There, Shakespeare's self, with every garland crown'd, Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen, In musing hour, his wayward Sisters found, And with their terrors drest the magic scene. From them he sung, when, 'mid his bold design, Before the Scot, afflicted, and aghast ! The shadowy kings of Banquo's fated line Through the dark cave in gleamy pageant pass'd.
Page 4 - Walpole, paints an indifference yet more ominous to the public cause than the general panic : — " the common people in town at least know how to be afraid ; but we are such uncommon people here...
Page 140 - Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner — viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese.