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... without any , medium , may fall short of the skill nedapt his compositions to the
medium of There the very qualities most ... which form of the novel , must be very
sparingly nto dramatic composition , and scarce good effect upon the stage .
... without any , medium , may fall short of the skill nedapt his compositions to the
medium of There the very qualities most ... which form of the novel , must be very
sparingly nto dramatic composition , and scarce good effect upon the stage .
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composition of original works of the same species with the romance of Cervantes
, so it is not perhaps possible to conceive a writer more completely qualified to
give a perfect translation of that novel . “ Motteux , with no great abilities as an ...
composition of original works of the same species with the romance of Cervantes
, so it is not perhaps possible to conceive a writer more completely qualified to
give a perfect translation of that novel . “ Motteux , with no great abilities as an ...
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... and a strict attention to the character and manners of the middle ages , has yet
this advantage , that it reaches its point more surely , than had a higher , more
difficult , and more ambitious line of composition been attempted . To explain our
...
... and a strict attention to the character and manners of the middle ages , has yet
this advantage , that it reaches its point more surely , than had a higher , more
difficult , and more ambitious line of composition been attempted . To explain our
...
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merits which her plan did not require , nay , almost excluded ; nor whether hers is
to be considered as a department of fictitious composition , equal in dig . nity and
importance to those where the great ancient masters have long pre - occupied ...
merits which her plan did not require , nay , almost excluded ; nor whether hers is
to be considered as a department of fictitious composition , equal in dig . nity and
importance to those where the great ancient masters have long pre - occupied ...
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The whole concoction of Gil Blas appears to me as original , in that which
constitutes the essence of a composition , as it is inexpressibly delightful . · The
principal character , in whose name and with whose commentaries the story is
told , is a ...
The whole concoction of Gil Blas appears to me as original , in that which
constitutes the essence of a composition , as it is inexpressibly delightful . · The
principal character , in whose name and with whose commentaries the story is
told , is a ...
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Page 220 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith,, that he was in great distress ; and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 216 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys...
Page 285 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 365 - Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 250 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sov'reign, o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat ; These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain.
Page 134 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Page 236 - Vicar of Wakefield ' in youth and in age — we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature, — SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Page 365 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy...
Page 206 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Page 254 - Halifax till about the latter end of that year, and cannot omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to...
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| Title | The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelists Volume 3 of The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | R.Cadell, 1834 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 May 2005 |
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