...e- nial spouse, and lived orderly and died reputably an old man. It is his chief title that he refrained from “the wrong that amendeth wrong.” But the... ...ended by ordinary gen- eration from the Waverley novels, but it is in them chiefly that we shall find the revolutionary tradition of Scott carried far... ...uccessive generations can pass over: and it is but natural that one of the chief advances that Hugo has made upon Scott is an advance in self-consciou... ... function of that form of art to create, this epical value, that I propose chiefly to seek and, as far as may be, to throw into relief, in the present... ...to supply the deficiency by his own influence. For many years he was their chief companion; he spoke with them seriously on all subjects as if they ha... ... for once, he was led forth and executed, thirty-one years old. A military engineer, a bold traveller (at least in wish), a poet, a patriot, a schoolm...