The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Paul's letters to his kinsfolkWells and Lilly, 1829 - 323 Seiten |
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Seite 197 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?
Seite 150 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Seite 96 - Believe me," he afterwards said, " that nothing, excepting a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. The bravery of my troops has hitherto saved me from that greater evil ; but, to win even such a battle as this of Waterloo, at the expence of the lives of so many gallant friends, could only be termed a heavy misfortune, were it not for its results to the public benefit...
Seite 96 - I, and every Englishman in the field, must die on the spot which we now occupy." — " It is enough," returned the general ; " I, and every man under my command, are determined to share his fate.
Seite 222 - We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
Seite 10 - ... and gables still more highly ornamented ; the whole comprising a general effect, which, from its grandeur and intricacy, amuses at once, and delights the spectator. In fact, this rich intermixture of towers, and battlements, and projecting windows, highly sculptured, joined to the height of the houses, and the variety of ornament upon their fronts, produces an effect as superior to those of the tame uniformity of a modern street, as the casque of the warrior exhibits over the slouched broadbrimmed...
Seite 55 - Come to me, and I will give you flesh," an invitation to the wolf and the raven, for which the next day did, in fact, spread an ample banquet, at the expense of our brave countrymen as well as of their enemies. They composed part of Sir Thomas Picton's division, and early in the morning of the 16lh [marched out together with the other troops, under the command of that distinguished and lamented officer.
Seite 14 - And arrowy frize, and wedged ravelin, Wove like a diadem its tracery round The lofty summit of that mountain green ; Here stood secure the group, and eyed a distant scene.
Seite 288 - Thorodd, the master of the family, had some time before set forth on a voyage to bring home a cargo of dried fish ; but, in crossing the river Enna, the skiff was lost, and he perished, with the servants who attended him. A solemn funeral feast was held at Froda, in memory of the deceased, when, to the astonishment of the guests, the apparitions of Thorodd and his followers seemed to enter the apartment dropping with water.
Seite 92 - Their gallant commanding-officer showed no alacrity in obeying this order, and indeed observed so much ceremony, that, after having been once and again ordered to advance, an aid-de-camp of the Duke of Wellington informed him of his Grace's command, that he should either advance or draw off his men entirely, and not remain there to show a bad example and discourage others. The gallant...