Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: In Four Volumes, 2. kötetA. & W. Galignani & Company, 1837 |
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... truly , This was one of the busiest summers of Scott's busy life . Till the 12th of July he was at his post in the Court of Session five days every week ; but every Saturday evening found him at Abbotsford , to observe the progress his ...
... truly , This was one of the busiest summers of Scott's busy life . Till the 12th of July he was at his post in the Court of Session five days every week ; but every Saturday evening found him at Abbotsford , to observe the progress his ...
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... truly what was before his eyes , would possess the same variety in his descriptions , and exhibit apparently an imagination as boundless as the range of nature in the scenes he recorded ; whereas - whoever trusted to imagination , would ...
... truly what was before his eyes , would possess the same variety in his descriptions , and exhibit apparently an imagination as boundless as the range of nature in the scenes he recorded ; whereas - whoever trusted to imagination , would ...
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... truly rejoice in your success ; and while I am en- tertaining , in my way , a certain set of readers , for the most part , probably , of peculiar turn and habit , I can with pleasure see the effect you produce on all . Mr Hatchard tells ...
... truly rejoice in your success ; and while I am en- tertaining , in my way , a certain set of readers , for the most part , probably , of peculiar turn and habit , I can with pleasure see the effect you produce on all . Mr Hatchard tells ...
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... truly , WALTER SCOTT . " " To Walter Scott , Esq . , Edinburgh . " MY DEAR SIR , -Law , then , is your profession - I mean a profession you give your mind and time to - but how fag as a clerk ? ' Clerk is a name for a learned person , I ...
... truly , WALTER SCOTT . " " To Walter Scott , Esq . , Edinburgh . " MY DEAR SIR , -Law , then , is your profession - I mean a profession you give your mind and time to - but how fag as a clerk ? ' Clerk is a name for a learned person , I ...
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... truly , " To the Rev. George Crabbe . " MY DEAR SIR , -I have too long delayed to thank you for the most kind and acceptable present of your three volumes . Now am I doubly armed , since I have a set for my cabin at Abbotsford as well ...
... truly , " To the Rev. George Crabbe . " MY DEAR SIR , -I have too long delayed to thank you for the most kind and acceptable present of your three volumes . Now am I doubly armed , since I have a set for my cabin at Abbotsford as well ...
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66 Edinburgh Abbotsford Adam Ferguson admirable amusement ancient appearance Ballantyne's beautiful believe booksellers Bowhill brother Byron called Captain castle cave character Constable DEAR delightful dinner doubt Duke of Buccleuch Earl Erskine Fair Isle favour favourite feelings feet give Grace Guy Mannering habits hand heard honour hope interest island Isles James Ballantyne Joanna Baillie John Ballantyne kind labour Lady Laird lake land late Lerwick letter literary Loch London look Lord Lord Byron mind morning Morritt never night novel occasion Old Mortality Orkney person pleasure poem poet poor present Prince received respect Rob Roy rock Rokeby round Royal scene Scotch Scotland seems Selkirkshire side sort spirit story suppose Terry thing thought Tom Purdie truly vessel WALTER SCOTT Waverley whole wind wish write young Zetland
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338. 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, raising and lowering his voice, and as it were acting the parts.
377. 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.
147. oldal - If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of vivifying all her persons, and making them live as beings in your mind, I should not be afraid...
189. oldal - We visited Corby Castle on our return to Scotland, which remains, in point of situation, as beautiful as when its walks were celebrated by David Hume, in the only rhymes he was ever known to be guilty of. Here they are, from a pane of glass in an inn at Carlisle : — ' Here chicks in eggs for breakfast sprawl, Here godless boys God's glories squall, Here Scotchmen's heads do guard the wall, But Corby "s walks atone for all.
61. oldal - Born a posthumous child, and bred up as an object of charity, he early adopted the custom of observing his birthday, as a term, not of joy, but of sorrow, and of reading, when it annually recurred, the striking passage of Scripture in which Job laments and execrates the day upon which it was said in his father's house
290. oldal - Willie brew'da peck o' maut; — and so it went on, until Scott and Erskine, with any clerical or very staid personage that had chanced to be admitted, saw fit to withdraw. Then the scene was changed. The claret and olives made way for broiled bones and a mighty bowl of punch ; and when a few glasses of the hot beverage had restored his powers, James opened ore rotunda on the merits of the forthcoming Romance. " One chapter — one chapter only !
164. oldal - I don't expect your conversion to be of such an ordinary kind. I would rather look to see you retreat upon the Catholic faith, and distinguish yourself by the austerity of your penances. The species of religion to which you must, or may, one day attach yourself must exercise a strong power on the imagination.
249. oldal - cried Scott, ' you have done wonders; you have shaken the Eildon hills with your roaring : you may now lay by your artillery for the rest of the day. Maida...
168. oldal - Braxfield forthwith put on his cocked hat (which answers to the black cap in England), and pronounced the sentence of the law in the usual terms — " To be hanged by the neck until you be dead ; and may the Lord have mercy upon your unhappy soul...
251. oldal - Arthur, with a fine deep sonorous voice, and a gravity of tone that seemed to suit the antiquated black-letter volume. It was a rich treat to hear such a work read by such a person, and in such a place ; and his appearance, as he sat reading, in a large arm-chair, with his favourite hound Maida at his feet, and surrounded by books and reliques, and Border trophies, would have formed an admirable and most characteristic picture.