Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart]. |
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... tell you , that I have read Madoc three times since my first cursory perusal , and each time with increased admiration of the poetry . But a poem whose merits are of that higher tone does not immediately take with the public at large ...
... tell you , that I have read Madoc three times since my first cursory perusal , and each time with increased admiration of the poetry . But a poem whose merits are of that higher tone does not immediately take with the public at large ...
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... be pleased with every thing I have said , it would mortify me very severely to believe I had given you pain . If you have any amity left for me , you will not delay very long to tell me so . In the meantime , 50 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... be pleased with every thing I have said , it would mortify me very severely to believe I had given you pain . If you have any amity left for me , you will not delay very long to tell me so . In the meantime , 50 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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John Gibson Lockhart. long to tell me so . In the meantime , I am very sincerely yours , F. JEFFREY . " The reader who has the Edinburgh Review for April 1808 , will I hope pause here and read the ar- ticle as it stands ; endeavouring to ...
John Gibson Lockhart. long to tell me so . In the meantime , I am very sincerely yours , F. JEFFREY . " The reader who has the Edinburgh Review for April 1808 , will I hope pause here and read the ar- ticle as it stands ; endeavouring to ...
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... tell me you have abused Scott in de Review , and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it . " This anecdote was not perhaps worth giving ; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape , so I thought it as ...
... tell me you have abused Scott in de Review , and I hope Mr Constable has paid you very well for writing it . " This anecdote was not perhaps worth giving ; but it has been printed already in an exaggerated shape , so I thought it as ...
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... tell how much pleasure and instruction his advice added to a tour in itself so productive of both , as well as of private friendships and intimacies , now too generally terminated by death , but never severed by caprice or ...
... tell how much pleasure and instruction his advice added to a tour in itself so productive of both , as well as of private friendships and intimacies , now too generally terminated by death , but never severed by caprice or ...
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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.