Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart]. |
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As an instance of the fun and good - humour that prevailed among us , as well as
of Sir Walter ' s ready wit , I may likewise mention an anecdote personal to myself
. My rear - rank man rode a great brute of a carriage horse , over which he had ...
As an instance of the fun and good - humour that prevailed among us , as well as
of Sir Walter ' s ready wit , I may likewise mention an anecdote personal to myself
. My rear - rank man rode a great brute of a carriage horse , over which he had ...
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Mr Morritt ' s mention of the “ happy young family clustered round him ” at Mr
Laidlaw ' s kirn , reminds me that I ought to say a few words on Scott ' s method of
treating his children in their early days . He had now two boys and two girls ; - -
and ...
Mr Morritt ' s mention of the “ happy young family clustered round him ” at Mr
Laidlaw ' s kirn , reminds me that I ought to say a few words on Scott ' s method of
treating his children in their early days . He had now two boys and two girls ; - -
and ...
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I mentioned it to Robert Dundas , , who was here with his lady for two days on a
pilgrimage to Melrose , and he approved highly of it . Though no literary man , he
is judicious , clair - voyant , and uncommonly sound - headed , like his father ...
I mentioned it to Robert Dundas , , who was here with his lady for two days on a
pilgrimage to Melrose , and he approved highly of it . Though no literary man , he
is judicious , clair - voyant , and uncommonly sound - headed , like his father ...
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Some time since , when chance threw in my way Sir William Forbes ' s Life of
Beattie , the account of the closing scene of Principal Campbell , as therein
mentioned , made a deep impression on my mind . • At a time , ' says he , when
Campbell ...
Some time since , when chance threw in my way Sir William Forbes ' s Life of
Beattie , the account of the closing scene of Principal Campbell , as therein
mentioned , made a deep impression on my mind . • At a time , ' says he , when
Campbell ...
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The poetess mentioned , at the same time , that she had met the evening before
with a Scotch lady who boasted that “ she had once been Walter Scott ' s
bedfellow . ” — “ Don ' t start , ” adds Joanna ; “ it is thirty years since the
irregularity took ...
The poetess mentioned , at the same time , that she had met the evening before
with a Scotch lady who boasted that “ she had once been Walter Scott ' s
bedfellow . ” — “ Don ' t start , ” adds Joanna ; “ it is thirty years since the
irregularity took ...
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194 ページ - Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base.
282 ページ - Paoli— he's off wi' the land-louping scoundrel of a Corsican ;^ and whose tail do you think he has pinned himself to now, mon ? " Here the old judge summoned up a sneer of most sovereign contempt. " A dominie, mon — an auld dominie ; he keeped a schiile, and cau'd it an acaadamy.
61 ページ - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound; And all the reasoning powers divine To penetrate, resolve, combine; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
250 ページ - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
283 ページ - ... pressing upon the old Judge the question, what good Cromwell, of whom he had said something derogatory, had ever done to his country ? — when, after being much tortured, Lord Auchinleck at last spoke out, ' God ! doctor, he gart kings ken that they had a lith in their neck' — he taught kings they had a joint in their necks.
403 ページ - Percival, by Bellingham, in the lobby of the House of Commons, on the llth of May, 1812; and that Scott had, in his capacity of Sheriff, had his own share in suppressing the tumults of the only manufacturing town of Selkirkshire.
270 ページ - Vanity of Human Wishes,' — all the examples and mode of giving them sublime, as well as the latter part, with the exception of an occasional couplet. I do not so much admire the opening. I remember...
34 ページ - I humbly think that we may be excused from intrusting to them those places in the State where the influence of such a clergy, who act under the direction of a passive tool of our worst foe, is likely to be attended with the most fatal consequences. If a gentleman chooses to walk about with a couple of pounds of gunpowder in his pocket, if I give him the shelter of my roof, I may at least be permitted to exclude him from the seat next to the fire.
189 ページ - Sheriff's coming home by the ford — or by the hill;" and the sick animal would immediately bestir himself to welcome his master, going out at the back door or the front door, according to the direction given, and advancing as far as he was able, either towards the ford of the Tweed, or the bridge over the Glenkinnon burn beyond Laird Nippy's gate.
214 ページ - ... amusement. I have heard Scott chuckle with particular glee over the recollection of an excursion to the vale of the Ettrick, near which river the party were pursued by a bull. " Come, King John," said he, " we must even take the water," and accordingly he and * Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol.