 | Great Britain - 1823 - 474 pages
...use the words of a great writer to whom we have already referred more than once in this paper, are " common to men in all stages of society, and which...frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day *." The classic habits might be added to the list. Hence is it that the Greek tragedies are so much... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 780 pages
...possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors; — those passions common to men in all stages of society, and...century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blne frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day. * Upon these passions it is no doubt true... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 pages
...possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters ana passions of the actors ¡—those passions common to men in all stages of society, and...throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth cen tiiry, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the bliw frock and white dimity waistcoat of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 508 pages
...possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors; — those passions common to men in all stages of society ,...fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, ortheblue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day. * Upon these passions it is no doubt... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 pages
...and passions of the actors; — those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which hare alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed...century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the bfae frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.1 Upon these passions it is no doubt true... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 604 pages
...possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ; — those passions common to men in all stages of society, and...blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.1 Upon these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws casts a necessary... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 604 pages
...possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ; — those passions common to men in all stages of society, and...blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.1 Upon these passions it is no doubt true that the state of manners and laws casts a necessary... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 876 pages
...passions of the actors ; — thoBe passions common to men in all stages of society, and which liave alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed...century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the bbe frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.1 Upon these passions it is no doubt true that... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1899 - 484 pages
...possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and passions of the actors ; — those passions common to men in all stages of society, and...alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed undei the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1876 - 628 pages
...and passions of the actors — those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which had alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed...eighteenth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of that decade of the nineteenth within which he was then writing. So the Norwegian novelist Henrik Scharling... | |
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... 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 of the fifteenth century, the... 
