Life of Sir Walter Scott, BartA. and C. Black, 1853 - 837 oldal |
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Abbotsford acquaintance Adam Fergusson admiration afterwards amusement appeared Ashestiel ballad Ballantyne's beautiful bookseller brother Buccleuch Cadell called Castle character circumstances Clerk Constable course Court of Session delighted Diary dinner doubt Duke Duke of Buccleuch early Edinburgh edition Erskine fancy father favour favourite feelings Fergusson genius gentleman Guy Mannering hand heard heart honour hour James Ballantyne Jedburgh John Ballantyne kind labour Lady Laidlaw Laird Lasswade letter literary London look Lord Lord Byron manners Marmion matter Melrose ment mind morning Morritt never novel occasion Old Mortality perhaps person poem poet poetry poor published received romance says scene scenery Scotch Scotland Scottish seemed Sheriff shewed Sir Walter Scott soon spirit story thing thought tion told Tom Purdie took Tweed usual verse volume walk Waverley Waverley Novels whole William William Laidlaw writing young
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7. oldal - My grandmother, in whose youth the old Border depredations were matter of recent tradition, used to tell me many a tale of Watt of Harden, Wight Willie of Aikwood, Jamie Telfer of the fair Dodhead, and other heroes — merrymen all of the persuasion and calling of Robin Hood and Little John.
386. oldal - Bold and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good; Let him drink port, the English statesman cried— He drank the poison, and his spirit died.
32. oldal - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's called by the unpromising title of 'The Justice of the Peace'.
61. oldal - ... upon the party. Sir Walter Scott seldom failed, when I saw him in company with his Liddesdale companion, to mimic with infinite humour the sudden outburst of his old host, on hearing the clatter of horses...
32. oldal - I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner, but had no opportunity to keep his word ; otherwise I might have seen more of this distinguished man.
733. oldal - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height: Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred Power departing from their sight; 5 While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.
763. oldal - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
593. oldal - I was to have gone there on Saturday in joy and prosperity to receive my friends. My dogs will wait for me in vain. It is foolish — but the thoughts of parting from these dumb creatures have moved me more than any of the painful reflections I have put down.
363. oldal - It must have been an enormous tree when it stood on its native soil, at its full height, and with all its branches. I gazed at it with admiration ; it seemed like one of the gigantic obelisks which are now and then brought from Egypt, to shame the pigmy monuments of Europe; and, in fact, these vast aboriginal trees, that have sheltered the Indians before the intrusion of the white men, are the monuments and antiquities of your country.
340. oldal - Begs better than the oddities of Jonathan Oldbuck and his circle are relieved, on the one hand by the stately gloom of the Glenallans, on the other by the stern affliction of the poor fisherman, who, when discovered repairing the