The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1836 - France |
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... ancient times , covered with continual forests . History , tradition , and the remains of huge old trees and straggling thickets , as well as the subterranean wood found in bogs and mosses , attest the same indubitable fact . It is not ...
... ancient times , covered with continual forests . History , tradition , and the remains of huge old trees and straggling thickets , as well as the subterranean wood found in bogs and mosses , attest the same indubitable fact . It is not ...
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... ancient fortifications , consisting of round towers flanking a straight curtain , or rather like a range of college caps connected by a broad black ribbon . Other plan- tations in the awkward angles , which they have been made to assume ...
... ancient fortifications , consisting of round towers flanking a straight curtain , or rather like a range of college caps connected by a broad black ribbon . Other plan- tations in the awkward angles , which they have been made to assume ...
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... ancient minstrels , and tread with stately pace the neighbouring precincts which art had gar- nished for her reception . These gardens were defended with walls , as well for safety as for shel- ter : they were often surrounded with ...
... ancient minstrels , and tread with stately pace the neighbouring precincts which art had gar- nished for her reception . These gardens were defended with walls , as well for safety as for shel- ter : they were often surrounded with ...
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... ancient maiden lady , was for some time our abode . It was situated in a garden of seven or eight acres , planted about the beginning of the eighteenth century by one of the Millars , related to the author of the Gardener's Dictionary ...
... ancient maiden lady , was for some time our abode . It was situated in a garden of seven or eight acres , planted about the beginning of the eighteenth century by one of the Millars , related to the author of the Gardener's Dictionary ...
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... ancient Cale- donian forest , and at least a thousand years old . It might be thought that the house and garden of Barncluth , with its walks of velvet turf and its verdant alleys of yew and holly , would seem in- congruous among ...
... ancient Cale- donian forest , and at least a thousand years old . It might be thought that the house and garden of Barncluth , with its walks of velvet turf and its verdant alleys of yew and holly , would seem in- congruous among ...
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Page 82 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Page 151 - That will never be. Who can impress" the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
Page 297 - Britain; with this difference betwixt the laws concerning public right, policy and civil government and those which concern private right, that the laws which concern public right, policy and civil government may be made the same throughout the whole United Kingdom, but that no alteration be made in laws which concern private right, except for evident utility of the subjects within Scotland.
Page 88 - There were thickets of flowery shrubs, a bower, and an arbour, to which access was obtained through a little maze of contorted walks calling itself a labyrinth. In the centre of the bower was a splendid Platanus, or Oriental plane — a huge hill of leaves — one of the noblest specimens of that regularly beautiful tree which I remember to have seen.
Page 79 - Sick of his civil pride from morn to eve ; I curse such lavish cost and little skill, And swear no day was ever pass'd so ill. Yet hence the poor are clothed, the hungry fed; Health to himself, and to his infants bread, The labourer bears : what his hard heart denies, His charitable vanity supplies.
Page 177 - After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down yet breathing, his bowels taken out, and burnt before his face. His head was then struck off, and his body divided into four quarters. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge at Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb to Perth, and his left quarter to Aberdeen.
Page 68 - 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...
Page 368 - Journalist, there has been in England a gradual and progressive system of assuming the management of affairs entirely and exclusively proper to Scotland, as if we were totally unworthy of having the management of our own concerns.
Page 68 - ... 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: and unless I now Confound my present feelings with the past...
Page 170 - This was cultivated in various proportions by the higher ranks of the husbandmen, who possessed it, either in part or in whole, as their own property, which they held by lease, and for which they paid a rent, or by the villeyns and cottars, who were themselves, in frequent instances, as we shall immediately see, the property of the lord of the soil. Thus, by a similar process, which we find took place in England under the Normans, and which is very clearly to be traced in Domesday Book, the greater...