Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, 6. kötetR. Cadell, 1839 |
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15. oldal
... original character of a gravel pit , that it is not fit to be shown to bairns and fools , ' who , according to our old canny proverb , should never see half - done work ; but Nature , if she works slowly , works surely , and your ...
... original character of a gravel pit , that it is not fit to be shown to bairns and fools , ' who , according to our old canny proverb , should never see half - done work ; but Nature , if she works slowly , works surely , and your ...
53. oldal
... original features in good health , and we shall not worry you about portraits . The library at Bowhill will be a delightful room , and will be some consolation to me who must , I fear , lose for some time the comforts of the eating ...
... original features in good health , and we shall not worry you about portraits . The library at Bowhill will be a delightful room , and will be some consolation to me who must , I fear , lose for some time the comforts of the eating ...
70. oldal
... original composition ; but I thought if I could turn an old German ballad I had been reading into decent rhymes , I might dismiss my worst apprehensions — and you shall see what came of the experiment . " He then desired his daughter ...
... original composition ; but I thought if I could turn an old German ballad I had been reading into decent rhymes , I might dismiss my worst apprehensions — and you shall see what came of the experiment . " He then desired his daughter ...
77. oldal
... original of Saunders Fairford congratulated him in his latter days on the undiminished authority he still maintained - every kirk in the neighbourhood being left empty when it was known he was to mount the tent at any country sacrament ...
... original of Saunders Fairford congratulated him in his latter days on the undiminished authority he still maintained - every kirk in the neighbourhood being left empty when it was known he was to mount the tent at any country sacrament ...
83. oldal
... my own eye a cold and lifeless resemblance of an original so dear to me . But I was writing to the public , and to a public less acquainted with him than a few years ' experience would have made them . Even his own tenantry MAY 1819 . 83.
... my own eye a cold and lifeless resemblance of an original so dear to me . But I was writing to the public , and to a public less acquainted with him than a few years ' experience would have made them . Even his own tenantry MAY 1819 . 83.
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18th Hussars 66 Edinburgh Abbotsford acquaintance Adam Fergusson admirable affection affectionate Allan Allan Cunningham amuse appeared attend author of Marmion Author of Waverley Bailie beautiful believe Blair-Adam Bride of Lammermoor brother Captain Castle Chantrey character Charles Constable Cornet course Darnick daughter Dear Lord Dear Walter death delight Ditton Ditton Park Duke of Buccleuch Erskine father favour feelings Galashiels give Grace habits hand happy heard honour hope horse Ivanhoe J. G. Lockhart John Ballantyne kind labour Lady Laird letter Lockhart London look Lord Montagu Lord Sidmouth Lordship manners matter mind morning never novelist novels occasion person pleasure poor present Prince received regiment scene Scotland seemed Sir Thomas Sir Walter soon Sophia sort spirit suppose Terry thing thought tion Tom Purdie truly WALTER SCOTT whole wish write young
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190. oldal - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
177. oldal - But- a glance on the great picture of life will show, that the duties of self-denial, and the sacrifice of passion to principle, are seldom thus remunerated ; and that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces on their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give or take away.
171. oldal - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
101. oldal - Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, Or rather like tragedy giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud: And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own.
68. oldal - But when dialogue of peculiar animation was in progress, spirit seemed to triumph altogether over matter — he arose from his couch and walked up and down the room, raisingand lowering his voice, and as it were acting the parts. It was in this fashion that Scott produced the far greater portion of The Bride of Lammermoor — the whole of the Legend of Montrose — and almost the whole of Ivanhoe.
243. oldal - So passed the winter's day ; but still, . When summer smiled on sweet Bowhill, And July's eve, with balmy breath, Waved the blue-bells on Newark heath ; When throstles sung in Hare-head shaw, And corn was green on Carterhaugh, And flourished, broad, Blackandro's oak, The aged Harper's soul awoke...
246. oldal - Laidlaw whispering to me, one night, when their " rapt talk " had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh, sirs...
249. oldal - as long as my arm," beginning with thanks to the Almighty, who had given man dominion over the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field, and...
194. oldal - Indeed he did not confine this humanity to his own people. Any steady servant of a friend of his was soon considered as a sort of friend too, and was sure to have a kind little colloquy to himself at coming and going.
349. oldal - Almighty to witness his resolution to maintain their laws and privileges, whilst they called, at the same moment, on the Divine Being, to bear witness that they accepted him for their liege Sovereign, and pledged to him their love and their duty. I cannot describe to you the effect produced by the solemn, yet strange mixture of...