Tales of My Landlord,: The black dwarfWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1816 - 347 páginas |
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... the writer , redacter , or compiler of the Tales of my Landlord ; nor am I , in one single iota , answerable for their contents , more or less . And now , ye generation of critics , who raise your- selves up as 8 INTRODUCTION .
... the writer , redacter , or compiler of the Tales of my Landlord ; nor am I , in one single iota , answerable for their contents , more or less . And now , ye generation of critics , who raise your- selves up as 8 INTRODUCTION .
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... he followed not the example of those strong poets whom I proposed to him as a pattern , but formed versification of a flimsy and modern texture , to the compound- ing whereof was necessary small pains and less thought . 16 INTRODUCTION .
... he followed not the example of those strong poets whom I proposed to him as a pattern , but formed versification of a flimsy and modern texture , to the compound- ing whereof was necessary small pains and less thought . 16 INTRODUCTION .
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Walter Scott. ing whereof was necessary small pains and less thought . And hence I have chid him as being one of those who bring forward the fatal revolution pro- phesied by Mr Robert Carey , in his Vaticination on the Death of the Ce ...
Walter Scott. ing whereof was necessary small pains and less thought . And hence I have chid him as being one of those who bring forward the fatal revolution pro- phesied by Mr Robert Carey , in his Vaticination on the Death of the Ce ...
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... less - prejudiced companion . The moon , which had arisen during their conversa- tion , was , in the phrase of that country , wading or struggling with clouds , and shed only a doubtful and occasional light . By one of her beams , which ...
... less - prejudiced companion . The moon , which had arisen during their conversa- tion , was , in the phrase of that country , wading or struggling with clouds , and shed only a doubtful and occasional light . By one of her beams , which ...
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... less alone than when alone ; and that from the heights which com- manded the moor at a distance , passen- gers often discovered a person at work along with this dweller of the desert , who regularly disappeared as soon as they ...
... less alone than when alone ; and that from the heights which com- manded the moor at a distance , passen- gers often discovered a person at work along with this dweller of the desert , who regularly disappeared as soon as they ...
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Página 119 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Página 122 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.