A letter to the author of Waverley, Ivanhoe, &c. on the moral tendency of those popular worksJ. Hatchard and Son, 1820 - 61 páginas |
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Página 50 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that, of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Página 60 - And if the unprofitable servant who hid his talent was condemned to darkness, weeping, and gnashing of teeth, what would have been his fate had he perverted it to the injury or prejudice of his fellows ? In that tremendous day, which will call us all to the bar of eternal justice, he who misuses talent, equally with those who iriisuse wealth or power, will call ki vain " on the mountains to " fall on him, and the hills to cover him!
Página 31 - The shifting tides of fear and hope, the flight and pursuit, the peril and escape, the alternate famine and feast, of the savage and the thief, after a time, render all course of slow, steady, progressive, unvaried occupation, and the prospect only of a limited mediocrity at the end of long labour, to the last degree tame, languid, and insipid.
Página 26 - Salute thee with a father's honour'd name, Go, call thy sons; instruct them what a debt They owe their ancestors; and make them swear To pay it, by transmitting down entire Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.
Página 46 - I doubt it not but the people of England are a fierce race, quarrelling ever with their neighbours or among themselves, and ready to plunge the sword into the bowels of each other. Such is no safe abode for the children of my people. Ephraim is an heartless dove - Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens.
Página 21 - June 28, 1828. Friends of Edie will be amused to hear a criticism of him by a Tartuffe, who, under the name of "Timothy Touchstone," addressed a "Letter to the Author of 'Waverley'" (Hatchards, 1820). Edie is "a pauper, who, at the close of a life of idleness and petty depredation, is endowed with virtues that only grace the hoary heads of the pious and the moral.