Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volumen1W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... person more accustomed to such things . What you say about the portraits , puzzles me more than anything else ; I mean as to the propriety of introducing such things at all . It is very true , however , as you have heard , that my ...
... person more accustomed to such things . What you say about the portraits , puzzles me more than anything else ; I mean as to the propriety of introducing such things at all . It is very true , however , as you have heard , that my ...
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... person I should have selected to act as my Cicerone in Scotland . Indeed , I wonder at myself for not having made more ac curate enquiries about him before I set out ; but I had somehow got a confused idea in my head that he was ...
... person I should have selected to act as my Cicerone in Scotland . Indeed , I wonder at myself for not having made more ac curate enquiries about him before I set out ; but I had somehow got a confused idea in my head that he was ...
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... worldly quicksightedness , which please on the face , and in the air of a peasant , produce quite a different effect when exhibited in the case of a person of superior rank . One rather 42 SCOTTISH GENTRY . Scottish Gentry.
... worldly quicksightedness , which please on the face , and in the air of a peasant , produce quite a different effect when exhibited in the case of a person of superior rank . One rather 42 SCOTTISH GENTRY . Scottish Gentry.
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John Gibson Lockhart. case of a person of superior rank . One rather wishes to see these things kept under in the ap- pearance of a person of education , than suspects their non - existence in the totality of his charac- ter . Without ...
John Gibson Lockhart. case of a person of superior rank . One rather wishes to see these things kept under in the ap- pearance of a person of education , than suspects their non - existence in the totality of his charac- ter . Without ...
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... person of the man , I know not how , there is a kind of atmosphere of activity about him ; and my eyes caught so much of the prevailing spirit , that they darted for some minutes from object to object , and refused , for the first time ...
... person of the man , I know not how , there is a kind of atmosphere of activity about him ; and my eyes caught so much of the prevailing spirit , that they darted for some minutes from object to object , and refused , for the first time ...
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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.