The female characters of Scott, with intr. and memoir |
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actions admirable affection ALMANAC amiable Amy Robsart beautiful beautifully bitter bosom Bride of Lammermoor bright castle Chap CHAPTER character of Flora character of Rebecca character of Waverley CHARACTERS OF SCOTT condemned cruel Cumnor daughter Dean Swift death deeds dishonour disposition Duties EDITH BELLENDEN effects."-M. A. THIERS endeavoured engrossed expression father favourite fearful felt FEMALE CHARACTERS firm FLORA MAC Flora MacIvor formed gentle give hand Handsomely bound happiness haughty Henry Morton heroine honourable hope husband Jeanie Deans knew Lady loved Ivanhoe lover Lucy Ashton Lucy's ment mother nearest and dearest never noble nobly novel pain passion peasant girl perusal PHILPOT LANE piece of gold pity pleasure Poor Lucy pure quiet racter Ravens Ravenswood reader revolution without describing romance Rose Bradwardine scene Scotland secret seemed sensual feelings mingled SIR WALTER SCOTT sorrow spirit stern tale tears Templar things thought tion trothed verhouse whilst wish woman WOMAN'S WORTH words
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Pagina 78 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Pagina 26 - A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death. The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.
Pagina 25 - PM, on the 21st of September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every windowwas wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Pagina 17 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pagina 23 - Tales of Wonder." His next work was " The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," in 1803, which first established his poetic fame. " Sir Tristem" was published in 1804 ; this was followed next year by " The Lay of the Last Minstrel ;" afterwards succeeded by
Pagina 42 - And he will refit the old library in the most exquisite Gothic taste, and garnish its shelves with the rarest and most valuable volumes; and he will draw plans and landscapes, and write verses, and rear temples, and dig grottoes; and he will stand in a clear summer night in the...
Pagina 20 - August, 1771, and consequently died in his sixty-second year ; he was the eldest son of Walter Scott, Esq. Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh ; his mother was the daughter of David Rutherford, Esq. an able and popular practitioner of the same (the legal) profession.
Pagina 46 - Lucy Ashton's exquisitely beautiful yet somewhat girlish features were formed to express peace of mind, serenity, and indifference to the tinsel of worldly pleasure. Her locks, which were of shadowy gold, divided on a brow of exquisite whiteness, like a gleam of broken and pallid sunshine upon a hill of snow. The expression of the countenance was in the last degree gentle, soft, timid, and feminine, and seemed rather to shrink from the most casual look...
Pagina 20 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reached the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If Nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honoured dust lies here.
Pagina 20 - Waverley.' The life of Scott is not to be told in a brief notice like this. He was born on the 15th of August, 1771; and died on the 21st of September, 1832. His father was a highly respectable writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, and was connected by blood with several noble families. Scott was a sickly boy, and lame from his infancy. His delicate health led to the cultivation of his mind according to his own tastes ; and the love of...