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...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...

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...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...ain wonderful old quarto book in her father’s library, by an eccentric old Scottish nobleman, wherein the wearing of garments and sleeping in houses i... ...nto them. Mr. Dacier was plain, and the state of young Mr. Rhodes; and the Scottish gentleman was at least a vehement admirer. But she pen- etrated th...

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...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ...h to say, to say sooth, in sooth, in good sooth, etc., are com- mon in old writers. Cf. the Lay, introd. 57: “the sooth to speak.” 65. T o claim its a... ...e their prey.’” 177. Good faith. In good faith, bona fide; as often in old writers. 192. Bower. See on i. 217 above. 195. This rebel Chieftain, etc. T... ...tion, see Wb. 90. Poule. Paul; an old spelling, found in Chaucer and other writers. The measure of the song is anapestic (that is, with the accent on ...

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... were novels — ah! I trouble you to find such novels in the present day! O Scottish Chiefs, didn’t we weep over you! O Mysteries of Udolpho, didn’t I ... ... not pleasing to me; I even thought it a little vulgar — well! well! other writers have been considered vulgar — and as a description of the sports an...

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...ce the king caused his premises to be guarded by a de- tachment of his own Scottish guard. Such royal solicitude made the courtiers believe that the o... ...on looking at it, his attention was excited by a sort of vision, which the writers of those days would have called “cornue,”—perhaps with ref- erence ... ...eaving the rue du Murier, his people stopped him, seeing an officer of the Scottish guard riding towards them at full speed. “What is it?” asked the p... ...djoining hall. These two Tourainean seigneurs looked at the captain of the Scottish guard, who was sleeping in his chair, accord- ing to his usual cus... ...ster’s face. The two men were a picture in themselves. History and romance-writers have consecrated the brown camlet coat, and the breeches of the sam...

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...h Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or... ...orce’s new book, and this involved an examination of the question in other writers; but lately I have laid all controversial works aside almost entire... ...d interest in all questions of philology. Both were also readers of German writers on Church history and of critical interpretation of the New Testame... ...th of July. This island was occupied by Mr. Inglis and Mr. Greddie, of the Scottish Presbyterian Mission, who had done much towards improving the nati... ... course the coral formation out of the sea.’ Erromango was occupied by the Scottish Mission, and Mr. Gordon was then living there in peace and apparen... ...fore his eyes. The Erromaugo Mission, like that of Anaiteum, came from the Scottish Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, as has been seen, had been visited on e...

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...lined and uncoordinated minority of inventors, experi- menters, educators, writers and organisers has achieved this development of human possibilities... ... and Hatherleigh, who was a Hampshire man, assured us we ought to know the Scottish miner. My private fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because... ...of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a p... ...ut I went on talking. It’s the grim irony in the lives of all politicians, writers, public teach- ers, that once the audience is at their feet, a new ...

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... and is already beginning in several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its colum... ...he said, had been provided for him by Daniel d’Arthez, one of our greatest writers, 119 Balzac and the payment for that, added to his own small means... ... heard amid the hubbub,— that of a pretty little blonde, saying to a small Scottish youth with whom she had danced the whole evening,— “How odd of Nai... ...is to invite little boys of that age!” “That’s easily explained,” said the Scottish youth; “he’s a boy of the Treasury department. Nais had to ask him... ...d that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it. The Scottish youth, furious, flung himself upon the treacherous French boy; on ...

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..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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...g than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used these crumbs in showing the mod... ...y in that pretty little gown of mous- seline-de-laine of the color of some Scottish tartan! That day I said to myself: ‘Why is that woman so often at ...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an e...

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... almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficul... ...ich therefore had the honor of producing perhaps the most char- acteristic writers of the nineteenth century in prose and verse respectively . The fam... ... his sister tells us, enthusiastically, though there are probably no three writers of any considerable repute in the history of French literature who ... ...It was by discerning this lack of unity, which in no way detracts from the Scottish writer’s greatness, that I perceived at once the scheme which woul...

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...d schemes were formed, as desperate as they were adventurous. Thus a young Scottishman of rank is said to have stooped so low as to plot the surprisal... ...s on the Law of Scotland Resolved and Answered,’ are works of authority in Scottish jurisprudence. As is generally the case, the doubts are held more ... ...ill of late years, every advocate who catered at the 15 Sir W alter Scott Scottish bar made a Latin address to the Court, faculty, and audience, in s... ...al tracts, and the latter formed a small selection of history and of moral writers, both in prose and verse. Neither collection promising much amuseme... ...USE This small dark coffee-house, now burnt down, was the re- sort of such writers and clerks belonging to the Parliament House above thirty years ago...

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...ore essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. Amidst the welter of modern thought, a phi- loso... ... seems the case in the “No- where” of Morris also. Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separa- tion, a... ...e most brilliant of modern discoveries by a certain school of sociological writers, who seem totally un- able to grasp the modification of meaning “sp... ...hose others, as Englishmen—which includes, in this case, I may remark, the Scottish and Welsh— he holds them superior to all other sorts of European, ...

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...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t... ... animation of frank social intercourse—have disarmed the guard. Beyond the Scottish border, the regulation was so far relaxed as to allow of four outs... ...ut Erle of Northumberland a vow to God did make, his pleasure in the Scottish woods 3 sommers days to take. 68 27 PUCELLE D’ORLÉANS: Maid of...

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...more. Indeed, the fascinating powers of opium are admitted even by medical writers, who are its greatest enemies. Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothec... ...n this planet) our English poets have possessed in the highest degree, and Scottish pro- fessors 3 in the lowest. I have often been asked how I first... ...ury of thought had failed even to advance by one hair’s breadth? All other writers had been crushed and overlaid by the enormous weight of facts and d...

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...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre...

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...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev... ..., I have felt that he, better than I, illustrated the virtues of the great Scottish chief. Sure I am, that had any slave-catcher entered his domicile,...

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...now, he may be held first to have devised it as a mode of history. The six writers, whose sketches are collected under the general title of the August... ...es, their merit was such in the eyes of the discerning, that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them. In another instance of his l... ...t is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction—not to say, suggesti... ...alarm (for he trusted in certain prophecies, which, like those made to the Scottish tyrant “kept the promise to the ear, but broke it to the sense,”) ...

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...hters of the family; but Edward was the only son;—descended, too, from the Scottish hero Wallace, as the old gentleman would sometimes ad- monish him;... ...ioned. In those very days while Arthur Coningsby was getting read amid the Scottish moors, “in June, 1833,” Sterling, at Bonn in the Rhine-country, fe... ...er, a kind of mysterious nim- bus as the principal or one of the principal writers in the Times, which gave an interesting chiaroscuro to his char- ac... ...ng, and a power of serious eloquence, far beyond that of any of these four writers; and to which indeed there is nothing at all comparable in any of t... ... German Literature, very slight at this time, limited itself altogether to writers on Church mat- ters,—Evidences, Counter-Evidences, Theologies and R...

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...go, both in politics and in morals. On the other hand, Malebranche and the writers of Port Royal were against him; some reprehended the licen- tiousne... ...the public opin- ion condemns them; that the poets, and all other sorts of writers, relate horrible stories of them; a recipe, by virtue of which the ... ...o weak and so forlorn, so heavy and so flat, in comparison of those better writers, I at once pity or despise myself. Yet do I please myself with this... ... Guerente, who wrote a comment upon Aristotle: George Buchanan, that great Scottish poet: and Marc Antoine Muret (whom both France and Italy have ackn...

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...s-board, should break the mould of their succession? The like had befallen Napoleon (so writers said) when the winter changed the time of its appearan... ... to the clamour, that my driver more particularly winced and blanched. Some thoughts of Scottish superstition and the river Kelpie, passed across my m...