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Page 199
... matters out of the line of his proper business " . Anyway , the trouble was acute , and must have been a matter of substantial sums , or the family resources and dispositions would have averted any open disaster . But , for the time ...
... matters out of the line of his proper business " . Anyway , the trouble was acute , and must have been a matter of substantial sums , or the family resources and dispositions would have averted any open disaster . But , for the time ...
Page 326
... matter as one of poetic merit . " I am not such an ass , " he wrote , as not to know that you are the better in poetry . " Probably Southey observed , in the discreet rear of his mind , that Scott was a good judge . 66 As to the bank ...
... matter as one of poetic merit . " I am not such an ass , " he wrote , as not to know that you are the better in poetry . " Probably Southey observed , in the discreet rear of his mind , that Scott was a good judge . 66 As to the bank ...
Page 357
... matter had to be arranged through John , for , if Scott had not written Waverley , what concern was it of his ? CHAPTER LV . The Lord of the Isles was finished on Christmas Day , 1814 , and published about three weeks later . It had not ...
... matter had to be arranged through John , for , if Scott had not written Waverley , what concern was it of his ? CHAPTER LV . The Lord of the Isles was finished on Christmas Day , 1814 , and published about three weeks later . It had not ...
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