Scott on Himself: A Selection of the Autobiographical Writings of Sir Walter Scott |
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... called from the catastrophe the Reaburn Meadow - spot . Pringle fled from Scot- land to Spain and was long a captive and slave in Barbary . Beardie became , of course , Tutor of Reaburn as the old Scottish phrase called him - that is ...
... called from the catastrophe the Reaburn Meadow - spot . Pringle fled from Scot- land to Spain and was long a captive and slave in Barbary . Beardie became , of course , Tutor of Reaburn as the old Scottish phrase called him - that is ...
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... called ) with more horror than the image of Jacob's Ladder with all its angels presented to my infant eye . My uncle effectually combated my terrors and formally introduced me to a statue of Neptune , which perhaps still keeps guard at ...
... called ) with more horror than the image of Jacob's Ladder with all its angels presented to my infant eye . My uncle effectually combated my terrors and formally introduced me to a statue of Neptune , which perhaps still keeps guard at ...
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... called poliomyelitis . 24. Sandyknow : the farm of his paternal grandfather in north Roxburghshire . It is close to Smailholm Tower , a red stone keep of the sixteenth century , which stands on a rocky hill and commands an extensive ...
... called poliomyelitis . 24. Sandyknow : the farm of his paternal grandfather in north Roxburghshire . It is close to Smailholm Tower , a red stone keep of the sixteenth century , which stands on a rocky hill and commands an extensive ...
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Memoirs | 1 |
Letters on Love and Marriage 17951797 | 45 |
Letters to Lady Abercorn 18061810 | 58 |
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