Carlyles' Works: Critical and miscellaneous essaysEstes and Lauriat, 1884 |
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Abbé Atheism Balsamo become behold Beppo better Boehmer Buffière Cagliostro century character Comte de Cagliostro Count Count Cagliostro Countess Denis Diderot Devil Diderot divine Earth Egyptian Encyclopédie eyes faculty fancy father feeling fixed-idea foolish forever France French French Revolution friends Gabriel genius Georgel Goethe Goethe's Gowkthrapple hand head heart Heaven History honor infinite Jesuit kind Lamotte Lettre de Cachet light living look Madame man's manner Marquis de Mirabeau matter mean meanwhile Mémoires Mirabeau Monseigneur moral Nature Necklace ness never nevertheless noble nowise old Marquis once Pailly Palais Royal Palermo Paris perhaps Philosophe Pontarlier poor Prince Quack Queen reader Revolution Riquetti Rohan Saverne Scott seems silent sort soul speak spirit Strasburg strong thee things thither thou thought tion true truth Versailles volumes whole wonder word worth write written young
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Pagina 439 - Judge forthwith put on his cocked hat (which answers to the black cap in England), and pronounced the sentence of the law in the usual terms — " To be hanged by the neck until you be dead ; and may the Lord have mercy upon your unhappy soul...
Pagina 454 - 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!
Pagina 450 - ... entailed upon all the family, except Sir Walter himself. But, in truth, even he was not always proof against the annoyances connected with such a style of open housekeeping.
Pagina 423 - In those days," says the Memorandum before me, " advocates were not so plenty — at least about Liddesdale ;" and the worthy Sheriff-substitute goes on to describe the sort of bustle, not unmixed with alarm, produced at the first farm-house they visited (Willie Elliot's at Millburnholm), when the honest man was informed of the quality of one of his guests. When they dismounted, accordingly, he received Mr Scott with great ceremony, and insisted upon himself leading his horse to the stable.
Pagina 424 - 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.
Pagina 447 - ... and well-polished 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...
Pagina 63 - English Friends', in thought and symbolically, since personally it is impossible, present ourselves, to offer you our affectionate congratulations. We hope you will do us the honour to accept this little Birthday Gift ; which as a true testimony of our feelings, may not be without value. We said to ourselves : As it is always the highest duty and pleasure to show reverence to whom reverence is due, and our chief, perhaps our only benefactor is he who by act and word,.
Pagina 439 - The Lord Chief Commissioner remembers that the Prince was particularly delighted with the poet's anecdotes of the old Scotch judges and lawyers, which his Royal Highness sometimes capped by ludicrous traits of certain ermine sages of his own acquaintance. Scott told, among others, a story, which he was fond of telling, of his old friend the Lord Justice-Clerk Braxfield ; and the commentary of his Royal Highness on hearing it amused Scott, who often mentioned it afterwards. The anecdote is this: Braxfield,...
Pagina 425 - Armstrong, had the welcome keg mounted on the table without a moment's delay ; and gentle and simple, not forgetting the dominie, continued carousing about it until daylight streamed in upon the party. Sir Walter Scott seldom failed, when I saw him in company with his Liddesdale companion, to mimic with infinite humor the sudden outburst of his old host on hearing the clatter of horses...
Pagina 450 - On descending, he was to be found seated with all his dogs and ours about him, under a spreading ash that overshadowed half the bank between the cottage and the brook, pointing the edge of his woodman'saxe, and listening to Tom Purdie's lecture touching the plantation that most needed thinning.