Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, 第 4 巻A. and C. Black, 1882 |
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66 Edinburgh Abbotsford admiration ancient appearance arch ashore August beautiful believe boat bookseller Bressay called Cape Cape Wrath castle cave cavern character coast Constable Drumlanrig Duff Duke of Buccleuch Earl 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 Lord MacDougall Macleod miles monuments 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 sort sound Staffa Stevenson stone suppose tide tion tower Triermain vessel walk WALTER SCOTT Waverley weather wind write yacht Zetland
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315 ページ - 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 Glencroe, And copse on Cruchan-Ben ; But here,— above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, VOL.
314 ページ - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd 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...
177 ページ - In truth, I am not sure it would be considered quite decorous for me as a Clerk of Session, to write novels. Judges being monks, Clerks are a sort of lay brethren, from whom some solemnity of walk and conduct may be expected. So, whatever I may do of this kind, ' I shall whistle it down the wind, and let it prey at fortune.'* I will take care, in the next edition, to make the correc- • tions you recommend.
172 ページ - I have been watching it : it fascinates my eye ; it never stops ; page after page is finished, and thrown on that heap of manuscript, and still it goes on unwearied ; and so it will be till candles are brought in, and God knows how long after that. It is the same every night : I can't stand a sight of it when I am not at my books.
263 ページ - This garland is hung up upon the 1st May, and remains till they come into port. I believe we shall dodge here till the tide makes about nine, and then get into Stromness: no boatman or sailor in Orkney thinks of the wind in comparison of the tides and currents. We must not complain, though the night * Sir William Honeyman, Bart — a Judge of the Court of Session by the title of Lord Armadale. gets rainy, and the Hill of Hoy is now completely invested with -vapour and mist. In the forepart of the...
116 ページ - I found, to my no small surprise, a letter tendering me the laurel vacant by the death of the poetical Pye. I have declined the appointment as being incompetent to the task of annual commemoration ; but chiefly as being provided for in my professional department, and unwilling to incur the censure of engrossing the emolument * attached to one of the few appointments which seems proper to be filled by a man of literature who has no other views in life.
44 ページ - I well remember, being in those days a young student at Oxford, how the booksellers' shops there were beleaguered for the earliest copies, and how he that had been so fortunate as to secure one, was followed to his...
105 ページ - As to the offer of his Royal Highness to appoint you laureate, I shall frankly say that I should be mortified to see you hold a situation which, by the general concurrence of the world, is stamped ridiculous.
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...
60 ページ - In estimating its merits, however, we should forget that it is offered as an imitation. The diction undoubtedly reminds us of a rhythm and cadence we have heard before ; but the sentiments, descriptions, and characters have qualities that are native and unborrowed.