 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1855 - 732 pages
...following considerations. It is true, that t neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of com pieté accuracy, even in matters of outward costume, much...which prevents my writing the dialogue of the piece in Anglo-вахоп or in Norman-French, and which prohibits my sending forth to the public this essay... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 374 pages
...by the following considerations. It is true that I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...more important points of language and manners. But tho same motive which prevents my writing the dialogue of the piece in Anglo-Saxon or in NormanFrench,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...better thnn none. SIR WALTER SCOTT. It is frtte that I neither can nor do pretend to the observation of complete accuracy even in matters of outward costume,...dialogue of the piece in AngloSaxon or in Norman French, and which prohibits my sending forth this essay primed with the types of Caxton or Wynken de Worde,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 692 pages
...by the following considerations. It is true, that I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...But the same motive which prevents my writing the diulogne of the piece in Anglo-Saxon or in Norman-French, and which prohibits my sending forth to the... | |
 | 1879 - 612 pages
...his taste or pleasure may dictate.' And again : — ' I neither can nor do pretend to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...the more important points of language and manners. ... It is necessary, for exciting interest of any kind, that the subject assumed should be, as it were,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...better than none. SIR WALTER SCOTT. It is true that I neither can nor do pretend to the observation and which prohibits my sending forth this essay printed with the types of Caxton or \Vynken de Worde,... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1881 - 874 pages
...great master of fiction has said for himself — " I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of complete accuracy even in matters of outward costume,...the more important points of language and manners;" and he speaks of "the fair license due to the author of a fictitious composition " (Sir \V. Scott,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - 676 pages
...by the following considerations. It is true, that I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...writing the dialogue of the piece in Anglo-Saxon or in Norman-French, and which prohibits my sending forth to the public this essay printed with the types... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 574 pages
...admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following consideration). plete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume, much...writing the dialogue of the piece in Anglo-Saxon or in Norman-French, and which prohibits my sending forth to the public thi» essay printed with the types... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 502 pages
...traverse by- the following considerations. It is true that I neither can nor do pretend to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...important points of language and manners. But the tame motive which prevents my writing the dialogue of the piece in AngloSaxon or in Norman-French,... | |
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It is true, that I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume, much less in the more important points of language and manners. 
