| Walter Scott - 1900 - 298 oldal
...from Edinburgh but a small part of each year. Speaking of himself and his profession, Scott says, " There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance." A few years later he was appointed Clerk of a higher court in Edinburgh. This... | |
| Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 oldal
...after ballads, whether Teutonic or national. My profession and I, therefore, came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself...was no great love between us at the beginning, and \tp\ease& \\£3.N«\.\x> decrease it on farther In 1800 Scott became Sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1901 - 518 oldal
...cheered the halls" of his noble patron's ancestors. 1 " My profession and I came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself...Mistress Anne Page: ' There was no great love between ns at the beginning, and it pleased heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance.' " — Introduction... | |
| Sir Walter Scott, edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. - 1904 - 986 oldal
...after ballads, whether Teutonic or national. My profession and I, therefore, came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself...beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance.1 I became sensible that the time was come when I must either buckle myself resolutely... | |
| Walter Scott - 1906 - 508 oldal
...future career. "My profession and I," he wrote, "came to stand nearly on the footing which Slender established with Mistress Anne Page : ' There was...beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on farther acquaint1 See Lockhart's Life of Scott (Cambridge Ed.), Vol. i, pp. 145-148 and note. ance.' " He resolved... | |
| W. T. Fyfe - 1906 - 358 oldal
...never acquired any real liking. He spoke of it himself in the words of Slender about Anne Page—'There was no great love between us at the beginning ; and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance.' The end of the century, therefore, saw Scott placed by fortune in the position... | |
| Walter Scott - 1906 - 616 oldal
...footing which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Ann Page, There was tu great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance." In fact, at the point where we left the narrative, Scott, already enriched by... | |
| W. T. Fyfe - 1907 - 348 oldal
...for which he had never acquired any real liking. He spoke of it himself in the words of Slender about Anne Page—' There was no great love between us at...beginning ; and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance.' The end of the century, therefore, saw Scott placed by fortune in the position... | |
| Walter Scott - 1907 - 608 oldal
...a lawyer has been described by himself. "My profession and I" (by 1 800) "came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Ann Page, There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 oldal
...aftf*r ballads, whether Teutonic or national. My profession and I, therefore, came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself...myself resolutely to the ' toil by day, the lamp by night,1 renouncing all the Delilalis of my imagination, or bia adieu to the profession of the law,... | |
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