 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 366 oldal
...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....Scott produced the far greater portion of the Bride of Lammennoor." — JG LOCKHART.] NOTE 0, p. 49. — SIR GEORGE LOCKHART. President of the Court of Session.... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 oldal
...seemed to triumph 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....of Montrose,' and almost the whole of ' Ivanhoe.' " What will-power ! What conquest over self ! Once he supposed himself near to death, and called his... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1890 - 416 oldal
...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....'Bride of Lammermoor,' the whole of the ' Legend of Moutrose,' and almost the whole of ' Ivanhoe.' " What we perceive depends upon attention. Let a botanist... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1890 - 582 oldal
...they must prove fatal. During the intervals he produced some of his finest novels, the greater part of the ' Bride of Lammermoor,' the whole of the '...Legend of Montrose,' and almost the whole of ' Ivanhoe ' being written to his dictation while he lay upon a sofa, striving to bear spasms of pain. One night... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1890 - 590 oldal
...they must prove fatal. During the intervals he produced some of his finest novels, the greater part of the ' Bride of Lammermoor,' the whole of the ' Legend of Montrose,' and almost the whole of 'Ivanboe' being written to his dictation while he lay upon a sofa, striving to bear spasms of pain.... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1891 - 420 oldal
...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....produced the far greater portion of the 'Bride of lyammermoor,' the whole of the ' Legend of Montrose,' and almost the whole of ' Ivanhoe.' " What we... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1894 - 824 oldal
...trinmph 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....of Montrose, — and almost the whole of Ivanhoe." — (Lockhart's Life of Scott, chap. xliv.) See also $ 352 u, for a curious seqnel to the foregoing.... | |
 | Hugo Erichsen - 1894 - 184 oldal
...drain as I have directed, one's fancy may be running its ain rigs in some other world." By far the greater portion of " The Bride of Lammermoor," the...Legend of Montrose," and almost the whole of " Ivanhoe " were dictated under the terrible stimulus of physical pain, which wrung groans from the author between... | |
 | 1896 - 930 oldal
...suffering at intervals the keenest physical pain, under these circumstances wrote the greater part of The Bride of Lammermoor, the whole of The Legend of Montrose, and almost the whole of Ivanhoe. Shirley Brooks frequently sent me in his letters bits of Punch proofs ot his current work, more particularly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 610 oldal
...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....Montrose ' — and almost the whole of ' Ivanhoe.' " * It is well known that after Scott's recovery, when his friends read him the work he had dictated... | |
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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... 
