 | Gilbert James French - 1856 - 74 ページ
...says—" There is nothing but amusement from morning till night; and if Mr. Scott is really writing Sob Roy, it must be while we are sleeping. He is either...superintending the masons, or erecting fences the whole day." " The family here are equally in the dark about whether Mr. Scott is the author of the novels.... | |
 | sir David Wilkie - 1868 - 182 ページ
...the great author of " these kind of books ; " and Wilkie, during his visit to Abbotsford, writes : " There is nothing but amusement from morning till night...masons, or erecting fences the whole of the day." Sir Walter Scott, to whom Wilkie has been so often compared for his subtle delineation of character,... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 608 ページ
...merriment. There is nothing but amusement from morning till night ; and if Mr. Scott is really writing ' Hob Roy,' it must be while we are sleeping. He is either...day. He goes frequently out hunting, and this morning Ihere was a whole cavalcade of us out with Mr. and Miss Scott, hunting hares. The family here are equally... | |
 | John William Mollett - 1881 - 156 ページ
...There is nothing but amusement from morning till night; and if Mr. Scott is really writing Rob Boy it must be while we are sleeping. He is either out...of us out with Mr. and Miss Scott hunting hares.' It would be surely excusable to stray from our subject for a time, under the charm of Wilkie's present... | |
 | John William Mollett - 1881 - 158 ページ
...morning till night ; and if Mr. Scott is really writing Rob Hoy it must be while we are sleeping. lie is either out planting trees, superintending the masons,...whole cavalcade of us out with Mr. and Miss Scott huutiug hares.' It would be surely excusable to stray from our subject for a time, under the charm... | |
 | John William Mollett - 1881 - 156 ページ
...There is nothing but amusement from morning till night ; and if Mr. Scott is really writing Rob lloy it must be while we are sleeping. He is either out...fences the whole of the day. He goes frequently out Imnting, and this morning there was a whole cavalcade of us out with Mr. and Miss Scott hunting hares.'... | |
 | Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower - 1902 - 242 ページ
...and his family. "I have never been in any place," he writes, "where there is so much real good humour and merriment. There is nothing but amusement from...cavalcade of us out with Mr. and Miss Scott, hunting hard." At that time it was not known whether Scott was the author of the Waverley Novels or not, and... | |
 | WILLIAM SMITH, JR., W.S. CROCKETT - 1905 - 348 ページ
...if Scott is really writing "Rob Roy," it must be while we are sleeping.' (That was practically so.) 'He is either out planting trees, superintending the...this morning there was a whole cavalcade of us out hunting hard.' Lockhart at Abbotsford, which he first saw in 1818, merits a chapter to himself. Sir... | |
 | William Shillinglaw Crockett - 1905 - 336 ページ
...if Scott is really writing "Rob Roy," it must be while we are sleeping.' (That was practically so.) 'He is either out planting trees, superintending the...this morning there was a whole cavalcade of us out hunting hard.' Lockhart at Abbotsford, which he first saw in 1818, merits a chapter to himself. Sir... | |
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Roy," it must be while we are sleeping. He is either out planting .trees, superintending the masons, or erecting fences, the whole of the day. He goes frequently out hunting, and this morning there was a whole cavalcade of us out with Mr. and Miss Scott,... 