Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, 第 4 巻Robert Cadell, 1839 |
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66 Edinburgh Abbotsford admiration ancient appearance arch ashore August beautiful boat bookseller Bressay called Cape Cape Wrath castle cave cavern character coast Constable Dear Morritt Drumlanrig Duff Duke of Buccleuch Earl edition entrance Erskine Fair Isle favour feelings feet formed give Grace hand harbour hills honour hope island James Ballantyne Joanna Baillie John Ballantyne kind Kirkwall Lady lake land Lerwick letter lighthouse Loch Loch Eribol Loch Etive Loch Linnhe London Lord Macleod miles morning mountains Mull never night Orkney pass pleasure poem poet poetical poor precipice rock Rokeby Rokeby Park romance round Royal Highness ruins sail sailors Scalloway scene Scotland seems seen Shetland shore side Skerries sort Staffa Stevenson stone suppose tide tion tower Triermain vessel WALTER SCOTT Waverley wind write yacht Zetland
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341 ページ - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell.
314 ページ - Hath rent a strange and shattered way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen but this can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep...
315 ページ - But here, — .above, around, below, On mountain or in glen Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
260 ページ - O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, Or it will cost ye muckle strife, Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life.
42 ページ - For time has soften'd what was harsh when new, And now the stains are all of sober hue ; The living stains which Nature's hand alone, Profuse of life, pours forth upon the stone : For ever growing ; where the common eye Can but the bare and rocky bed descry...
119 ページ - Walter's conduct was, as it always was, characteristically generous, and in the highest degree friendly." — [1839.] make a better figure at drinking it. I should think that in due time a memorial might get some relief in this part of the appointment — it should be at least £100 wet and £100 dry. When you have carried your point of discarding the ode, and my point of getting the sack, you will be exactly in the situation of Davy in the farce, who stipulates for more wages, less work, and the...
387 ページ - I think very highly of him, as a poet ; but he, and half of these Scotch and Lake troubadours, are spoilt by living in little circles and petty societies. London and the world is the only place to take the conceit out of a man — in the milling phrase.
140 ページ - ... within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses
174 ページ - I will play Sir Fretful for once, and assure you that I ieft the story to flag in the first volume on purpose ; the second and third have rather more bustle and interest. I wished (with what success Heaven knows) to avoid the ordinary error of novel writers, whose first volume is usually their best.
58 ページ - Should you feel any touch of poetical glow, We've a Scheme to suggest — Mr. Sc — TT, you must know, (Who, we're sorry to say it, now works for the Row*) Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages, to Town ; And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none...