 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 - Página 46de Marlborough coll - 1854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Walter Scott - 1907 - 476 páginas
...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... | |
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