Novels of Ernest Theodore Hoffman. The omen. Hajji Baba in England. Tales of my landlord Thornton's Sporting tour. Two cookery books. Johnes' translation of Froissart. Miseries of human life. Carr's Caledonian sketches. Lady Suffolk's correspondence. Kirkton's Church history. Life and works of John Home. The Culloden papers. Pepys' MemoirsCarey & Hart, 1841 - English literature |
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... amusement of our youth , and which are recollected , if not re - perused , with so much plea- sure in our more advanced life . There are but few readers , of any imagination , who have not at one time or other in their life sympathized ...
... amusement of our youth , and which are recollected , if not re - perused , with so much plea- sure in our more advanced life . There are but few readers , of any imagination , who have not at one time or other in their life sympathized ...
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... amusement is to dance round the mushroom in the moonlight , and mislead the belated peasant . The French Fée more nearly resembles the Peri of Eastern , or the Fata of Italian poetry . She is a superior being , having the nature of an ...
... amusement is to dance round the mushroom in the moonlight , and mislead the belated peasant . The French Fée more nearly resembles the Peri of Eastern , or the Fata of Italian poetry . She is a superior being , having the nature of an ...
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... amusement of the baron and his guests was to hunt the wolves and bears which tenanted these woods during the day , and to conclude the evening with a boisterous sort of festivity , in which the efforts made at passionate mirth and ...
... amusement of the baron and his guests was to hunt the wolves and bears which tenanted these woods during the day , and to conclude the evening with a boisterous sort of festivity , in which the efforts made at passionate mirth and ...
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... amusement , may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history , which , however inaccurate , is better than none . If there is a third class , whose delight in history is liable to be lessened by becoming habituated to the fairy ...
... amusement , may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history , which , however inaccurate , is better than none . If there is a third class , whose delight in history is liable to be lessened by becoming habituated to the fairy ...
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... amusement . The errors of the dull are seldom productive of mirth ; and the information which he may sometimes convey is so mnch alloyed by the natural stupidity with which it is amalgamated , that , to say truth , few persons care to ...
... amusement . The errors of the dull are seldom productive of mirth ; and the information which he may sometimes convey is so mnch alloyed by the natural stupidity with which it is amalgamated , that , to say truth , few persons care to ...
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Page 204 - Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time, Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper; And others of such vinegar aspect, That they'll not show their teeth by way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be
Page 218 - a man is being whereby he may be thought to be accommodated, which is an excellent thing;" yet we own that it conveys to us no very particular information as to the parallel roads of Glenroy. Perhaps these roads, which are six in number, lying in parallel lines one above the other on
Page 411 - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave, for which, and all the discomfort that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare
Page 131 - am that John Balfour who promised to lay thy head where thou should'st never lift. it again; and God do so to me, and more also, if I do not redeem my word.' "' The sword of the lord and of Gideon!' answered Balfour as he parried and returned the blow. " ' Then a bed of heather, or a thousand
Page 338 - discourse, that the stranger was the Prince of Wales; when he heard his chief and his brother refuse to take arms with their prince, his colour went and came, his eyes sparkled, he shifted his place, and grasped his sword. Charles observed his demeanour, and, turning briskly towards him, called out, 'Will not you assist me
Page 189 - During this time a heavy rain fell, accompanied by thunder and a very terrible eclipse of the sun, and before this rain a great flight of crows hovered in the air over all those battalions, making a loud noise. Shortly afterwards it cleared up, and the sun shone very
Page 417 - which Evelyn passes censure on the witty and worthless sovereign, for the levity of his conduct in public towards our old acquaintance Nell Gwynn. "I thence walked through St. James's Parke to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between
Page 111 - e'en hame wi' a toom purse and a sair heart.'—' That may be, Jean,' replied one of the banditti, ' but we maun ripe* his pouches a bit, and see if it be true or no.' Jean set up her throat in exclamations against the breach of hospitality, but without producing any change of their determination.
Page 421 - Coelia to-day, very fine, and did it pretty well: I kissed her, and so did my wife; and a mighty pretty soul she is."—Vol. ii, p. 8. We learn from Pepys' authority, notwithstanding his general partiality, that Nell played serious characters very ill; and this makes him express his wonder at her excellence in mad characters; which certainly approach the
Page 213 - Edinburgh was unloosed to censure, or vindicate, the ancient course of justice, we may address Sir John in the words of the poet: " Nee rapis ad leges, male custoditaque gentis Jura, nee insulsis damnas clamoribus aures." A yet more important subject of discussion was open to our traveller, on the state of the