The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1836 - France |
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... thing which belongs to another , though no less essential , department . The arable cultivator , for example , has a sort of pleasure in rooting up the most valuable grass land , even where the slightest reflection might assure him that ...
... thing which belongs to another , though no less essential , department . The arable cultivator , for example , has a sort of pleasure in rooting up the most valuable grass land , even where the slightest reflection might assure him that ...
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... things as pockets were extant in rerum naturâ . In other cases of enormity , the unhappy plantations have been made to assume the form of pincushions , of hatchets , of penny tarts , and of breeches displayed at an old - clothesman's ...
... things as pockets were extant in rerum naturâ . In other cases of enormity , the unhappy plantations have been made to assume the form of pincushions , of hatchets , of penny tarts , and of breeches displayed at an old - clothesman's ...
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... things must happen - either that the thinnings are made at considerable expense over a waste tract of wood - land , without any reimbursement from the proceeds ; or else the plantation remains unthinned , to the unspeakable prejudice of ...
... things must happen - either that the thinnings are made at considerable expense over a waste tract of wood - land , without any reimbursement from the proceeds ; or else the plantation remains unthinned , to the unspeakable prejudice of ...
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... thing of the comparative value of heath and green- sward pasture , will agree that the advantages of converting the one into the other are very mode- rately stated at the above ratio , and this wonderful transformation is made without ...
... thing of the comparative value of heath and green- sward pasture , will agree that the advantages of converting the one into the other are very mode- rately stated at the above ratio , and this wonderful transformation is made without ...
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... thing of great consequence which furnishes an additional source of profit or of pleasure to the resident pro- prietor , and induces him to continue to support the useful and honourable character of a country gen- tleman , an epithet so ...
... thing of great consequence which furnishes an additional source of profit or of pleasure to the resident pro- prietor , and induces him to continue to support the useful and honourable character of a country gen- tleman , an epithet so ...
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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...