Pictures from English literature . young sucking madman as scared me out of my senses,with the old one, this morning. Car. Oh, Henry! do we once more meet, and after such By what miracle have you escaped ? Dub. Eh ?—what ?—Henry Morland ! Why, zounds ! the late Lord Duberlys lost hair ! Mor. Son and heir to that revered and respectable man, be assured, sir. You havedone me the favour to be my locum tenens in my absence. Dub. Od rabbit it! then, old Daniel Dowlas is no longer a lord ! Lady D. Nor Deborah Dowlas a lady ! Dick. Nor Dick Dowlas an honourable! Pan. Nor Peter Pangloss a tutor ! Morl
Pictures from English literature . young sucking madman as scared me out of my senses,with the old one, this morning. Car. Oh, Henry! do we once more meet, and after such By what miracle have you escaped ? Dub. Eh ?—what ?—Henry Morland ! Why, zounds ! the late Lord Duberlys lost hair ! Mor. Son and heir to that revered and respectable man, be assured, sir. You havedone me the favour to be my locum tenens in my absence. Dub. Od rabbit it! then, old Daniel Dowlas is no longer a lord ! Lady D. Nor Deborah Dowlas a lady ! Dick. Nor Dick Dowlas an honourable! Pan. Nor Peter Pangloss a tutor ! Morland promises to make a provision for Dowlas and his wife, whileZekiel proposes to get into the country and take a bit of a farm. The Heir-at-Law is something more than a satire upon pedantry andridicule upon vulgarity. It is designed to teach that virtue and honour belongexclusively to no class of life ; and that an elevated position but exposes to astronger light defects which, in an humbler sphere, might escape unnoticed. K. JEANIE DEANS. WHATEVER may be the position that Scott is entitled to hold as a poet—and on this point there are very different opinions—there can be but onejudgment as to his pre-eminence as a novelist. Next to Shakespeare hetakes his place as the great interpreter of humanity. Like the bard of Avon,the seer of Abbotsford was endowed with instincts that seemed intuitively toopen up to him all the hidden springs of the human heart, bordering almostupon inspiration. The universality of his genius comprehended life fromthe highest to the lowest, from the civilised to the savage, from the acts andthoughts of men to the varying moods and aspects of Nature, in her stormand her calm, in her wild grandeur and her serene beauty. Lord Russell,in his life of Moore, very happily observes of Scott, Picturesque, interesting,and bard-like as are his narrative poems, the pathos, humour, description,character, and, above all, the marvellous fertility displayed in
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