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Page 178
... published ; and this in the strictest connection with his trading adventure . " But when we remember that the Lay was not published till the beginning of January in London , the state of the posts at that period , and the other ...
... published ; and this in the strictest connection with his trading adventure . " But when we remember that the Lay was not published till the beginning of January in London , the state of the posts at that period , and the other ...
Page 255
... published after her death . She even directed that Scott was to have the honour of writing a biography to preface the poems , and it is characteristic of Scott's weaker side that he does not appear to have thought of declining the ...
... published after her death . She even directed that Scott was to have the honour of writing a biography to preface the poems , and it is characteristic of Scott's weaker side that he does not appear to have thought of declining the ...
Page 652
... published a few weeks earlier , and had been received in a luke- warm way . The intention of anonymity had been abandoned by Scott's own decision , for a reason which he gives at some length in his Journal , and which shows that he had ...
... published a few weeks earlier , and had been received in a luke- warm way . The intention of anonymity had been abandoned by Scott's own decision , for a reason which he gives at some length in his Journal , and which shows that he had ...
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