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... death - bed and found deliberately shortening his life by reading aloud passages from a book he had been writing . Doubtless the little boy was what the writer of Marmion represents him : - " A self - will'd imp , a grandame's child ...
... death - bed and found deliberately shortening his life by reading aloud passages from a book he had been writing . Doubtless the little boy was what the writer of Marmion represents him : - " A self - will'd imp , a grandame's child ...
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... death ; while the neighbouring mansion of Floors Castle formed a link between the present and the past . It was in this delightful country , moreover , that Scott began his extensive acquaintance with English fiction and - significant ...
... death ; while the neighbouring mansion of Floors Castle formed a link between the present and the past . It was in this delightful country , moreover , that Scott began his extensive acquaintance with English fiction and - significant ...
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... death of his father removed one considerable obstacle . Even before he was unconsciously " making himself " as poet and novelist by more considerable excursions , both Highland and Lowland , than those which used to give the old man so ...
... death of his father removed one considerable obstacle . Even before he was unconsciously " making himself " as poet and novelist by more considerable excursions , both Highland and Lowland , than those which used to give the old man so ...
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... death ; and I do not altogether dissent from the contemporary critics who judged it to be , taken as a whole , inferior to the earlier Border poem , which is more natural , more genuine , more real . The scenes and folk with whom it ...
... death ; and I do not altogether dissent from the contemporary critics who judged it to be , taken as a whole , inferior to the earlier Border poem , which is more natural , more genuine , more real . The scenes and folk with whom it ...
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... death as a Jacobite at Carlisle by the mob , crying , " Charlie yet ! " with her last breath . He himself , when a boy , had seen her granddaughter Madge , and his memory was haunted by " the solemn CAERLAVEROCK CASTLE , DUMFRIESSHIRE ...
... death as a Jacobite at Carlisle by the mob , crying , " Charlie yet ! " with her last breath . He himself , when a boy , had seen her granddaughter Madge , and his memory was haunted by " the solemn CAERLAVEROCK CASTLE , DUMFRIESSHIRE ...
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