 | Walter Scott - 1906 - 510 Seiten
...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...unite themselves with the plains or lowlands. For similiar reasons, it may be in like manner said, that the most picturesque period of history is that... | |
 | George Levine - 1981 - 368 Seiten
...romance, past and present, excess and sound judgment appears in his introduction to The Fortunes of Nigel: the most picturesque period of history is that when...illumination of increased or revived learning, and the instruction of renewed or reformed religion. The strong contrast produced by the opposition of ancient... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 424 Seiten
...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...the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowknds. For similar reasons, it may be in like manner said, that the most picturesque period of history... | |
 | Meinhard Winkgens - 1997 - 452 Seiten
...Reiz solcher Übergangsphasen in der Einleitung zu The Fortunes of Nigel auf den Begriff bringt: [...] the most picturesque period of history is that when...contrasted by the illumination of increased or revived leaming and the instructions of renewed or reformed religion. The strong contrast produced by the Opposition... | |
 | Alex Davis - 2003 - 276 Seiten
...represented by the likes of Tressilian, the Devonshire country gentleman - but Scott's interest in a period when 'the ancient rough and wild manners of a barbarous age are just becoming innovated upon' seems clear. The Second Volume divides its attentions between the court in London, and further events... | |
 | Margaret Bruzelius - 2007 - 294 Seiten
...Nigel, Scott paraphrases with approval Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's description of such borderlands: "the most romantic region of every country is that...where the mountains unite themselves with the plains and lowlands." Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel (New York: The Waverley Book Co., 1898), viii.... | |
 | Paul Goetsch - 1994 - 326 Seiten
...Region an neue Entwicklungen in der Gegenwart. Im Vorwort zu The Fortunes ofNigel führt Scott 1832 aus: ...the most picturesque period of history is that...Illumination of increased or revived learning and tbe instructions of renewed or refonned religion. The strong contrast produced by the Opposition of... | |
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