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142: Pope, An Essay on Criticism, l.371; Scott uses this line in his CHP III review.
143: Hobhouse’s Letters from Paris was reviewed by Croker and Gifford: this coda may not be by Scott. 144: CHP IV, Dedication (to Hobhouse). 145: Shakespeare, The Tempest, I ii 373-5. Were ne’er prophetic sounds so full of woe, 146 We entertain no fears—none whatever.— At home, the noble author may hear of better things than ‘a permanent army and a suspended Habeas Corpus’ 147 —he may hear of an improving revenue and increasing public prosperity. And while he continues abroad he may haply call to mind that the Pilgrim, whom, eight years since, the universal domination of France compelled to wander into distant and barbarous countries, is now at liberty to travel where he pleases, certain that there is not a corner of the civilized world where his title of Englishman will not ensure him a favourable and respectful reception. from The Heart of Midlothian (published July 25th 1818): George Staunton is the seducer of Effie Deans. ... George Staunton had not been long in England till he learned his independence, and how to abuse it ... although he showed some capacity for learning, his riotous conduct soon became intolerable to his teachers. He found means (too easily afforded to all youths who have certain expectations) of procuring such a command of money as enabled him to anticipate in boyhood the frolics and follies of a more mature age ... (p.342, Claire Lamont’s World’s Classics edition.) The fiery eye, the abrupt demeanour, the occasionally harsh, yet studiously subdued tone of voice, – the features, handsome, but now clouded with pride, now disturbed by suspicion, now inflamed by passion – those dark hazel eyes, which he sometimes shaded with his cap, as if he were averse to having them seen while they were occupied with keenly observing the emotions and bearing of others – those eyes that were now turbid with melancholy, now gleaming with scorn, and now sparkling with fury – was it the passions of a mere mortal they expressed, or the emotions of a fiend, who seeks, and seeks in vain, to conceal his fiendish designs under the borrowed mask of manly beauty? The whole Download 1.07 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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