Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... Sir Walter Scott gives us a novel ; Mr. Hallam a critical and argumen- tative history . Both are occupied with the same matter . But the former looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and lively ...
... Sir Walter Scott gives us a novel ; Mr. Hallam a critical and argumen- tative history . Both are occupied with the same matter . But the former looks at it with the eye of a sculptor . His intention is to give an express and lively ...
Page 270
... Sir Walter Scott , or Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Moore . The idea of either of those gentlemen looking out for some lord who would be likely to give him a few guineas in return for a fulsome de- dication seems laughably incongruous . Yet ...
... Sir Walter Scott , or Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Moore . The idea of either of those gentlemen looking out for some lord who would be likely to give him a few guineas in return for a fulsome de- dication seems laughably incongruous . Yet ...
Page 279
... Sir Walter Scott has these lines in the Lord of the Isles : " The dew that on the violet lies , Mocks the dark lustre of thine eyes . " This is pretty taken separately , and , as is always the case with the good things of good writers ...
... Sir Walter Scott has these lines in the Lord of the Isles : " The dew that on the violet lies , Mocks the dark lustre of thine eyes . " This is pretty taken separately , and , as is always the case with the good things of good writers ...
Page 288
... Sir Walter Scott's novels , Lord Byron's poetry , and Mr. Martin's pictures . The new designs for Milton have , as was natural , particularly attracted the attention of a personage who occupies so con- spicuous a place in them . Mr ...
... Sir Walter Scott's novels , Lord Byron's poetry , and Mr. Martin's pictures . The new designs for Milton have , as was natural , particularly attracted the attention of a personage who occupies so con- spicuous a place in them . Mr ...
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... Sir Walter Scott , Mr. Wordsworth , Mr. Coleridge , are far more correct poets than those who are commonly extolled as the models of correctness , Pope , for example , and Addison . The single description of a moon- light night in ...
... Sir Walter Scott , Mr. Wordsworth , Mr. Coleridge , are far more correct poets than those who are commonly extolled as the models of correctness , Pope , for example , and Addison . The single description of a moon- light night in ...
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