 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 דפים
...introduced, if the scene had been laid a century earlier Lady Mary Wortley Montague has said, with equal truth and taste, that the most romantic region of...is that where the mountains unite themselves with tht plains or lowlands. For similar reasons, it may be in like manner said, that the most picturesque... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1861 - 352 דפים
...with the observance of every point of chivalry.* * " Lady Mary Wortley Montague has said, with equal truth and taste, that the most romantic region of...themselves with the plains or lowlands. For similar According to the more modern practice, combatants met in some solitary place, alone, or each accompanied... | |
 | SIR WALTER SCOTT - 1871 - 520 דפים
...introduced if the scene had been laid a century earlier./Lady Mary Wortley Montagu has said, with equal truth and taste, that the most romantic region of...'• history is that when the ancient rough and wild manners'of a barbarous age are just becoming innovated upon and contrasted by the illumination of increased... | |
 | John Stuart Stuart-Glennie - 1879 - 588 דפים
...AUSTRIAN ILLYRIA. ' WITH A POLITICO-ETHNOGRAPHICAL MAP. JS STUABT-GLENNIE, MA, nA!iniSTER-AT-I,AW. " The most romantic region of every Country is that...with the plains or lowlands. For similar reasons, the most picturesque period of History is that when the ancient, rough, and wild manners of a barbarous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 1166 דפים
...Montagu has said, with equal trutli and taste, that the most romantic region of every country is tliat where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands. For similar reasons, it may be in Wee manner said, that the most picturesque period of history is that when the ancient rough and wild... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 922 דפים
...introduced if the scene had been laid a century earlier. Lady Mary Worlley Montagu has said, with equal truth and taste, that the most romantic region of...innovated upon and contrasted by the illumination tf increased or revived learning, and the instructions of renewed or reformed religion. The strong... | |
 | John James Aubertin - 1892 - 566 דפים
...Introduction to the " Fortunes of Nigel," Scott refers to Lady Mary Montague as saying " with equal truth and taste, that the most romantic region of...mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands." Of this I found nothing in the Vale of Kashmir, though I found it abounding in Java and Japan. Indeed,... | |
 | Karl Krumbacher - 1892 - 684 דפים
...renewed or reformed religion.' In Illustration of this, he quotes a remark of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, that the most romantic region of every country is...mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands. The same observation may be applied from a different point of view, to the position of the Byzantine... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 1012 דפים
...introduced, if the scene had been laid a century earlier. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu has said, with equal truth and taste, that the most romantic region of...where the mountains unite themselves with the plains and lowlands. For similar reasons, it may be in like manner said that the most picturesque period of... | |
 | Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 364 דפים
...Nigel, Scott suggests, by generalization, a far wider story than the history of the reign of James II: "The most picturesque period of history is that when the ancient rough and wild manners'of a barbarous age are just becoming innovated upon, and contrasted, by the illumination of... | |
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