The Scottish Annual

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1836
 

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Стр. 245 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Стр. 3 - I have not yet said half we felt in reading the work. The characters are not only finely drawn as separate figures, but they are grouped with great skill, and contrasted so artfully, and yet so naturally as to produce the happiest dramatic effect, and at the same time to relieve the feelings and attention in the most agreeable manner. The novelty of the Highland world which is discovered to our view excites curiosity and interest powerfully: but though it is all new to us, it does not embarrass,...
Стр. 3 - We were so possessed with the belief that the whole story and every character in it was real, that we could not endure the occasional addresses from the author to the reader. They are like Fielding ; but for that reason we cannot bear them : we cannot bear that an author of such high powers, of such original genius, should for a moment stoop to imitation.
Стр. 274 - It wants only one thing," muttered the gifted boy. " Tell me," cried the successful artist, " what it wants This is the first censure which my St. George has elicited. Can I improve? Can I alter? Is it in the clay or the marble? Tell me !" But the critic had disappeared.
Стр. 7 - There is one thing more we could wish changed or omitted in Flora's character. I have not the volume, and therefore cannot refer to the page : but I recollect in the first visit to Flora, when she is to sing certain verses, there is a walk, in which the description of the place is beautiful, but too long, and we did not like the preparation for a scene — the appearance of Flora and her harp was too like a common heroine, she should be far above all stage effect or novelist's trick.
Стр. 2 - We have this moment finished Waverley. It was read aloud to this large family, and I wish the author could have witnessed the impression it made - the strong hold it seized of the feelings both of young and old - the admiration raised by the beautiful descriptions of nature - by the new and bold delineations of character - the perfect manner in which...
Стр. 244 - When floating clouds their spongy fleeces drain, Troubling the streams with swift-descending rain, And waters, tumbling down the mountain's side, Bear the loose soil into the swelling tide...
Стр. 273 - Fling by thy chisel, now," cried another ; " thou canst add nothing to that," " I shall cease, hereafter, my devotion to the antique," cried a third. " The power of Phidias !" exclaimed one. " The execution of Praxiteles !" said another. " You will draw votaries from the Venus," whispered a soft Italian girl, as she turned her melting eyes on the oldman. " The Apollo will hereafter draw his bow unheeded," cried an artist, whom many thought the best of his day.
Стр. 72 - The marks are now made with a cold instrument, and are, I believe, easily effaced. The criminal's back now exhibited a horrid spectacle. It was one mangled, bloated mass, of a deep crimson hue ; yet still, mangled as it was, no blood ran from it. A common cart having been drawn into the square, the executioners untied the strap by which the malefactor was fastened to the stake, and, with the assistance of the gend'armes, carried him to and placed him in the cart, throwing his shirt lightly upon him,...
Стр. 276 - Then, tell me, without equivocation, what it is my St. George wants." " The gift of speech," was the reply. A gleam of sunshine fell across the old man's face. The smile lingered on his lips long after he lay cold as the marble upon which he had so often stamped his genius.1 Gentlemen, to this statue, which remains the admiration of posterity, no human power could give the gift of speech...

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