Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volumen1W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... Scot- land , than was ever revealed to any wondering common - room , by any travelled or travelling tutor , since the days of Dr Johnson . So have patience . W- W— was never more completely in his ele- ment , than when he took me to see ...
... Scot- land , than was ever revealed to any wondering common - room , by any travelled or travelling tutor , since the days of Dr Johnson . So have patience . W- W— was never more completely in his ele- ment , than when he took me to see ...
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... Scots are certainly rather a hard - favoured race than otherwise ; but I think their looks are very far from meriting the sort of common - place sarcasms their southern neighbours are used to treat them with . Indeed , no one who has ...
... Scots are certainly rather a hard - favoured race than otherwise ; but I think their looks are very far from meriting the sort of common - place sarcasms their southern neighbours are used to treat them with . Indeed , no one who has ...
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... Scot- tish peasant , with his long dry visage , his sharp prominent cheekbones , his grey twinkling eyes , and peaked chin , would seem a very Argus , if set up close beside the sleek and ponderous chub- biness of a Gloucestershire ...
... Scot- tish peasant , with his long dry visage , his sharp prominent cheekbones , his grey twinkling eyes , and peaked chin , would seem a very Argus , if set up close beside the sleek and ponderous chub- biness of a Gloucestershire ...
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... Scot , by all inex- perienced persons , who introduce any descrip- tion of him into novels or satires - witness Churchill , and a thousand of less note ; and I confess , that I was myself prepared to find the case much more as they have ...
... Scot , by all inex- perienced persons , who introduce any descrip- tion of him into novels or satires - witness Churchill , and a thousand of less note ; and I confess , that I was myself prepared to find the case much more as they have ...
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... Scots , must ever be , of all others , the most ex- tensive in its sway . Such as the influence of the churchmen is , they are all Presbyterians and Cal- vinists , and so , in spite of themselves , they are , and must be Whigs . A few ...
... Scots , must ever be , of all others , the most ex- tensive in its sway . Such as the influence of the churchmen is , they are all Presbyterians and Cal- vinists , and so , in spite of themselves , they are , and must be Whigs . A few ...
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Página 179 - Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Página 134 - I AM a son of Mars, Who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars Wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, And that other in a trench, When welcoming the French At the sound of the drum.
Página 141 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Página 179 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our minds, into the mind of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Página 134 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...
Página 110 - Muse's lyre. Not beggar's brat on bulk begot ; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot ; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews...
Página 141 - He had small need of books ; for many a tale Traditionary, round the mountains hung, And many a legend, peopling the dark woods, Nourished Imagination in her growth, And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things.
Página 115 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Página 234 - Though Nature could not touch his heart By lovely forms and silent weather, And tender sounds, yet you might see At once, that Peter Bell and she Had often been together. A savage wildness round him hung As of a dweller out of doors ; In his whole figure and his mien A savage character was seen, Of mountains and of dreary moors.
Página 139 - His face and hands are still as brown as if he had lived entirely sub dio. His very hair has a coarse stringiness about it, which proves beyond dispute its utter ignorance of all the arts of the friseur ; and hangs in playful whips and cords about his ears, in a style of the most perfect innocence imaginable.