Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart]. |
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Halaman 237 - With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruined pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree — Are they still such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me?
Halaman 248 - Our ramble took us on the hills commanding an extensive prospect. "Now, "said Scott, "I have brought you, like the pilgrim in the Pilgrim's Progress, to the top of the Delectable Mountains, that I may show you all the goodly regions hereabouts. Yonder is Lammermuir, and...
Halaman 38 - Report had prepared me to meet a man of peculiar habits and a quick temper, and I had some doubts whether we were likely to suit each other in society. I was most agreeably disappointed in this respect. I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even kind.
Halaman 48 - this old big-wig seems to have taken things as coolly as my tyrannical self. Don't you remember Tom Moore's description of me at breakfast — "' The table spread with tea and toast, Death-warrants and the Morning Post ?'" ' Towards midnight, the Prince called for " a bumper, with all the honors, to the Author of Waverley;" and looked significantly, as he was charging his own glass, to Scott.
Halaman 32 - Scott is certainly the most wonderful writer of the day. His novels are a new literature in themselves, and his poetry as good as any — if not better (only on an erroneous system) — and only ceased to be so popular, because the vulgar learned were tired of hearing ' Aristides called the Just,', and Scott the Best, and ostracised him.
Halaman 237 - The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill, In Ettrick's vale, is sinking sweet ; The westland wind is hush and still — The lake lies sleeping at my feet.
Halaman 143 - Speaking of his third novel in a letter of the same date to Terry, Scott says, ' ' It wants the romance of Waverley and the adventure of Guy Mannering ; and yet there is some salvation about it, for if a man will paint from nature, he will be likely to amuse those who are daily looking at it.
Halaman 146 - He did so accordingly; and from that hour, whenever memory failed to suggest an appropriate epigraph, he had recourse to the inexhaustible mines of " old play "or " old ballad," to which we owe some of the most exquisite verses that ever flowed from his pen.
Halaman 372 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps "Dundee's" wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive "Martyrs...
Halaman 83 - His complexion was burnt to a brick-colour by the vicissitudes of climate, to which it had been subjected ; and his face, which at the distance of a yard or two seemed hale and smooth, appeared, when closely examined, to be seamed with a million of wrinkles, crossing each other in every direction possible, but as fine as if drawn by the point of a very small needle...