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Page 90
... leave us . The excuse ( if it be needed ) for considering the life of Scott is that which he would have applied himself to any theme that might come before him — that it is of an explicit nobility ; a tale that it is worth while to tell ...
... leave us . The excuse ( if it be needed ) for considering the life of Scott is that which he would have applied himself to any theme that might come before him — that it is of an explicit nobility ; a tale that it is worth while to tell ...
Page 253
... leave Mr. Scott alone . : wrote that poem myself . " It was Fire , Famine , and Slaugh- ter , " on which Scott performed this feat of casual memory , and incidentally exposed the hollowness of the critical judgments in which such ...
... leave Mr. Scott alone . : wrote that poem myself . " It was Fire , Famine , and Slaugh- ter , " on which Scott performed this feat of casual memory , and incidentally exposed the hollowness of the critical judgments in which such ...
Page 458
... leave nothing but debt to be discharged by his friends - even these circumstances are sufficiently in keeping with the whole of this person's history . " We may observe an obvious inaccuracy of rhetoric in the statement that he could leave ...
... leave nothing but debt to be discharged by his friends - even these circumstances are sufficiently in keeping with the whole of this person's history . " We may observe an obvious inaccuracy of rhetoric in the statement that he could leave ...
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