Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... Scotchman , who having been obliged to quit Edinburgh in 1736 , for having been actively concerned in the Porteous riot , had settled in London as a printer , and had made a considerable fortune there . The son , Archibald , enjoying ...
... Scotchman , who having been obliged to quit Edinburgh in 1736 , for having been actively concerned in the Porteous riot , had settled in London as a printer , and had made a considerable fortune there . The son , Archibald , enjoying ...
Page 277
... Scotchman picking his pocket- ' The K-- ; ' a sign for a button - maker . The painter , who has not fixed his design to this performance , is certainly a very loyal subject . His M-- has that innocent vacancy of countenance which ...
... Scotchman picking his pocket- ' The K-- ; ' a sign for a button - maker . The painter , who has not fixed his design to this performance , is certainly a very loyal subject . His M-- has that innocent vacancy of countenance which ...
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... Scotchmen into men of speculation and men of general literature , one might adopt as equally serviceable a less formal classification which the common satirical talk respecting Scotchmen will suggest . The hard , cool , logical Scotchman ...
... Scotchmen into men of speculation and men of general literature , one might adopt as equally serviceable a less formal classification which the common satirical talk respecting Scotchmen will suggest . The hard , cool , logical Scotchman ...
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... Scotchman something distinguishable as his birth - quality or Scotticism . And what is this Scotticism of Scotchmen - this ineradicable , universally - combinable element or peculiarity , breathed into the Scottish soul by those ...
... Scotchman something distinguishable as his birth - quality or Scotticism . And what is this Scotticism of Scotchmen - this ineradicable , universally - combinable element or peculiarity , breathed into the Scottish soul by those ...
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... Scotchmen - that is , of the peculiarity which dif- ferences them from people of other countries , and more ex ... Scotchman can be named in whose consti- tution a larger or smaller proportion of the amor Scotiæ has not been ...
... Scotchmen - that is , of the peculiarity which dif- ferences them from people of other countries , and more ex ... Scotchman can be named in whose consti- tution a larger or smaller proportion of the amor Scotiæ has not been ...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 44 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Page 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
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