The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelistsR.Cadell, 1834 - France |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 86
Page 12
... genius ? ) we find so much to praise , and so very little deserving cen- sure , that we almost think we are reading the description of one of the amiable characters he has [ Johnson seems to have been , on one occasion at least , bailed ...
... genius ? ) we find so much to praise , and so very little deserving cen- sure , that we almost think we are reading the description of one of the amiable characters he has [ Johnson seems to have been , on one occasion at least , bailed ...
Page 14
... genius , and generally its willing flatterers . Richardson was in the daily habit of seeing , con- versing , and corresponding with many of the fair sex ; and the unvaried , and , it would seem , the inexhaustible theme , was his own ...
... genius , and generally its willing flatterers . Richardson was in the daily habit of seeing , con- versing , and corresponding with many of the fair sex ; and the unvaried , and , it would seem , the inexhaustible theme , was his own ...
Page 16
... geniuses of the age , saving Dr Young , with whom he corresponded late in life . Aaron Hill , who patriotically endeavoured to make him a convert to wines of British manufacture ; and Mr Edwards , author of the Canons of Criti- cism ...
... geniuses of the age , saving Dr Young , with whom he corresponded late in life . Aaron Hill , who patriotically endeavoured to make him a convert to wines of British manufacture ; and Mr Edwards , author of the Canons of Criti- cism ...
Page 19
... genius of the author , and which would have come with particular propriety from Richardson , himself a master of the pathetic style of composition . Rich- ardson seems also to have joined Aaron Hill in the cuckoo - song , that Pope had ...
... genius of the author , and which would have come with particular propriety from Richardson , himself a master of the pathetic style of composition . Rich- ardson seems also to have joined Aaron Hill in the cuckoo - song , that Pope had ...
Page 20
... genius.1 1 [ Lord Byron , on finding some sheets of Pamela applied to " base uses , " at Ravenna , in 1821 , thus writes : - " What would Richardson , the vainest and luckiest of living authors , ( i . e . while alive ) -he who , with ...
... genius.1 1 [ Lord Byron , on finding some sheets of Pamela applied to " base uses , " at Ravenna , in 1821 , thus writes : - " What would Richardson , the vainest and luckiest of living authors , ( i . e . while alive ) -he who , with ...
Common terms and phrases
acquainted admiration affection afterwards amiable Anecdotes appeared Bage beautiful betwixt Bradshaigh Castle of Otranto celebrated censure character circumstances Clarissa composition criticism Cumberland daughter degree Diable Boiteux distinguished Dr Johnson dramatic eminent England English excellent father favour feelings fiction Fielding Fielding's fortune Garrick genius Gil Blas Goldsmith honour Horace Walpole human humour incident interest labours lady Le Sage letter literary literature living Lord manners master Memoirs merit mind moral Mysteries of Udolpho narrative nature never novel observed Old English Baron painted Pamela passages passions peculiar perhaps person published racter Radcliffe Radcliffe's reader remarkable respect Richard Cumberland Richardson ridicule Robert Bage Roderick Random romance Sage satire says scenes seems sentiments Sir Charles Grandison Smollett society spirit Sterne story style success tale talents taste tion Tom Jones translation truth Walpole write
Popular passages
Page 224 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith,, that he was in great distress ; and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 220 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys...
Page 289 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 369 - Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 254 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love which scarce collective man can fill, For patience, sov'reign, o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's signal of retreat ; These goods for man the laws of heaven ordain.
Page 138 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Page 240 - Vicar of Wakefield ' in youth and in age — we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature, — SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Page 369 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy...
Page 210 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Page 258 - Halifax till about the latter end of that year, and cannot omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush, in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me, that never should that name be effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to...