Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republished

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P.F. Collier, 1901
 

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Сторінка 451 - Charlotte — my thirty-years companion. There is the same symmetry of form, though those limbs are rigid which were once so gracefully elastic — but that yellow mask, with pinched features, which seems to mock life rather than emulate it, can it be the face that was once so full of lively expression ? I will not look on it again.
Сторінка 425 - To be hanged by the neck until you be dead ; and may the Lord have mercy upon your unhappy soul...
Сторінка 15 - What then is man ? What then is man ? He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith, from the beginning, gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death-element of TIME ; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.
Сторінка 409 - ... was a gig, driven by Scott himself for a part of his way, when. on the last of these seven excursions. There was no inn nor public-house of any kind in the whole valley ; the travellers passed from the shepherd's hut to the minister's manse, and again from the cheerful hospitality of the manse to the rough and jolly welcome of the homestead ; gathering, wherever they went, songs and tunes, and occasionally more tangible relics of antiquity — even such ' a rowth of auld nicknackets ' as Burns...
Сторінка 440 - We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ; your Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting near the heart of them!
Сторінка 449 - Well, here I am in Arden. And I may say with Touchstone, " When I was at home I was in a better place...
Сторінка 409 - At first he thought o' little, I dare say, but the queerness and the fun.
Сторінка 433 - ... jockey-boots of the less distinguished cavaliers about him. Dr. Wollaston was in black ; and with his noble serene dignity of countenance might have passed for a sporting archbishop. Mr. Mackenzie, at this time in the...
Сторінка 410 - I've seen him in a' moods in these jaunts, grave and gay, daft and serious, sober and drunk — (this, however, even in our wildest rambles, was but rare) — but drunk or sober, he was aye the gentleman.
Сторінка 220 - Scotland sent him forth a Herculean man ; our mad Babylon wore him and wasted him, with all her engines ; and it took her twelve years.

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