| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 416 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. . Then Woodstock and Bony may .both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking...Tweed.' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will npt do. I will not yield without a fight for it. It is odd, when I set myself to work doggedly, as... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 418 pages
...in the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking...methinks to go abroad, ' And lay my bones far from die Tweed' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for... | |
| Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...in the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking...would let me leave the Court of Session. I would like melhinks to go abroad, ' And lay my bones far from the Tweed.' But I find my eyes moistening, and that... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 790 pages
...in the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the papermaker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog, or turn devotee, and 474 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. intoxicate the brain another way. In prospect of absolute ruin, I wonder... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...in the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking...turn devotee, and intoxicate the brain another way. 1" prospect of absolute ruin, I wonder if they would let me leave the Court of Session. I would like... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then " Woodstock" and Bony may go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...And lay my bones far from the Tweed.' But I find my eye moistening, and that will not do." At this time Scott's difficulties were made the subject of frequent... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 436 pages
...in the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking...methinks, to go abroad, ' And lay my bones far from the Tu-ced.' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for... | |
| 1857 - 678 pages
...would have taken them from me, if misfortune had spared them. My poor people, whom I loved so well!" "I would like, methinks, to go abroad, and • lay my bones far from the Tweed.' •' " Poor Mr. Poole, the harper, sent to offer me £500 — probably his all. There is much good... | |
| American periodicals - 1868 - 850 pages
...in the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking...But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. It is odd, when I set myself to work Jo/jf/alli/, as Dr. Johnson would say, I am exactly the same man... | |
| English literature - 1868 - 608 pages
...in the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking...But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. It is odd, when I set myself to work doggedly, as Dr. Johnson would say, I am exactly the same man... | |
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