 Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this part of my subject, I must be understood to have resolved to avoid them as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors; those passions common...  Prolusiones - Страница 46по Marlborough coll - 1854Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1870 - 544 страници
...painter of antique or of fashionable manners gains over him who delineates those of the last generation. Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this...narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors;—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 страници
...of antique or of fashionable manners gains over him who delineates those of the last generation. " Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this...actors ; those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 442 страници
...painter of antique or of fashionable manners gains over him who delineates those of the last generation. Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this...;—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet... | |
 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 страници
...painter of antique or of fashionable manners gains over him who delineates those of the last generation. Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this...actors; those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 468 страници
...painter of antique or of fashionable manners gains over him who delineates those of the last generation. Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this...the force of my narrative upon the characters and passioua of the actors;—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike... | |
 | ANDREW LANG - 1892 - 504 страници
...painter of antique or of fashionable manners gains over him who delineates those of the last generation. Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this part of my subject, I must be understood to have INTRODUCTORY. 5 resolved to avoid them as much as possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon... | |
 | 1898 - 614 страници
...who knew the secret of story-telling so well—who resolved in H'averley to throw the force of his narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ?— those passions common to men and women in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1902 - 500 страници
...expressed in a passage from the Introduction to “Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since” : — “Considering the disadvantages inseparable from...— those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corsiet... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1906 - 520 страници
...painter of antique or of fashionable manners gains over him who delineates those of the last generation. Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this...narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors;—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 896 страници
...Huskin may refer to chapter i. ("Introductory") of Waverley, in which Scott avows hia intention of "throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters...actors : those passions common to men in all stages of society."] them to their passions, and are capable, by gradual increase in depravity, of any crime... | |
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