Wordsworth. Coleridge. Lamb. Hazlitt. Leigh Hunt. ProctorEdward Tuckerman Mason C. Scribner's Sons, 1884 |
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Wordsworth. Coleridge. Lamb. Hazlitt. Leigh Hunt. Proctor Edward Tuckerman Mason Vista completa - 1885 |
Wordsworth. Coleridge. Lamb. Hazlitt. Leigh Hunt. Proctor Edward Tuckerman Mason Vista completa - 1885 |
Wordsworth. Coleridge. Lamb. Hazlitt. Leigh Hunt. Proctor Edward Tuckerman Mason Vista completa - 1885 |
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Página 293 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 265 - And folk begin to tak the gate, While we sit bousing at the nappy, An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles, That lie between us and our hame, Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...
Página 12 - Mr Walter Scott's. He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on : it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. 'There's the mast gone,' says he; 'crash it goes ! — they will all perish ! ' After his agitation, he turns to me. 'That is too melancholy,' says he; 'I had better read you something more amusing.
Página 78 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Página 78 - As I was dressing on the morning of Monday the 17th of September, Nicolson came into my room, and told me that his master had awoke in a state of composure and consciousness, and wished to see me immediately. I found him entirely himself, though in the last extreme of feebleness. His eye was clear and calm — every trace of the wild fire of delirium extinguished. " Lockhart," he said, " I may have but a minute to speak to you.
Página 227 - I ever saw; shaped like a pair of tongs, and hardly above five feet in all. When he...
Página 65 - It may be worth noting, that it was in correcting the proof-sheets of this novel that Scott first took to equipping his chapters with mottoes of his own fabrication. On one occasion he happened to ask John Ballantyne, who was sitting by him, to hunt for a particular passage in Beaumont and Fletcher. John did as he was bid, but did not succeed in discovering the lines. " Hang it, Johnnie," cried Scott, " I believe I can make a motto sooner than you will find one.
Página 19 - lord of the castle" himself made his appearance. I knew him at once by the descriptions I had read and heard, and the likenesses that had been published of him He was tall, and of a large and powerful frame. His dress was simple, and almost rustic. An old green shootingcoat, with a...
Página 219 - You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. WITCHES vanish. BAN. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Página 255 - ... set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, ' Papa, your hair is on fire,' of which a calm ' Is it, my love?' and a hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken.