Sir Everard had never been himself a student, and, like his sister Miss Rachael Waverley, held the vulgar doctrine, that idleness is incompatible with reading of any kind, and that the mere tracing the alphabetical characters with the eye, is in itself a useful and meritorious task, without scrupulously considering what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey. With.
Great God! hast Thou given men Thine own image that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren!
It is ill arguing against anything from its misuse.
There are few more melancholy sensations than those with which we regard scenes of past pleasure when altered and deserted.
I HAVE already hinted that the dainty, squeamish, and fastidious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading, had not only rendered our hero unfit for serious and sober study, but had even disgusted him in some degree with that in which he had hitherto indulged. He.
The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson, – – from earliest possibility, I suppose, who lived with half the gay world at hack and manger, and now obliges such as will not pay hushmoney with a history of whatever she.
It is by giving fair names to foul actions that those who would start at real vice are led to practise its lessons, under the disguise of virtue.
Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea.
Chapter XX Happy’s the wooing That’s not long a-doing.
The White Lady replied, – “Do not ask me; On doubts like these thou canst not task me. We only see the passing show Of human passions’ ebb and flow; And view the pageant’s idle glance As mortals eye the northern dance, When thousand streamers, flashing bright, Career it o’er the brow of night. And gazers mark their changeful gleams, But feel no influence from their beams.
All however agreed, that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and to drink of the waters of the well or even approach its brink, was ominous to a descendant of that house, as for a Grahame to wear green, a Bruce to kill a spider, or a St. Clair to cross the Ord on a Monday.
As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The.
Besides, when a man of talent shows himself an able and useful partisan, his party will continue to protect and accredit him, in spite of conduct the most contradictory to their own principles.
Fools should not have chapping sticks’; that is, weapons of offence.
The Chiefs of Glengarry, Keppoch, and Lochiel, whose clans, equal in courage and military fame to any in the Highlands, lay within the neighbourhood of the scene of action, dispatched the fiery cross through their vassals, to summon every one who could bear arms to meet the King’s lieutenant, and to join the standards of their respective Chiefs, as they marched towards Inverlochy.
If thou readest the Scripture,” said the Jewess, “and the lives of the saints, only to justify thine own license and profligacy, thy crime is like that of him who extracts poison from the most healthful and necessary herbs.
I am not sure if the ladies understand the full value of the influence of absence, nor do I think it wise to teach it them, lest, like the Clelias and Mandanes of yore, they should resume the humour of sending their lovers to banishment.
I wish to Heaven these scoundrels were condemned to be squeezed to death in their own presses. I am told there are not less than a dozen of their papers now published in town, and no wonder that they are obliged to invent lies to find sale for their journals.
I am the very child of caprice and folly.
Oh what a tangled web we weave...