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" I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and chapters, and endeavoured to construct a story which I meant should evolve itself gradually and strikingly, maintain suspense, and stimulate curiosity; and which, finally,... "
Sir Walter Scott - Page 273
by William Henry Hudson - 1901 - 304 pages
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The Fortunes of Nigel: A Romance, Volume 1

Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 296 pages
...Believe me, I have notrbeen fool enough to neglect ordinary precautions. I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and...in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daemon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray from the...
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The Fortunes of Nigel, Volume 1

Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 370 pages
...Believe me, I have not been fool enough to neglect ordinary precautions. I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and...in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daemon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray from the...
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The Fortunes of Nigel, Volume 1

Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 378 pages
...Believe me, I have not been fool enough to neglect ordinary precautions. I have repeatedly kid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and...in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daemon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray from the...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 89

English literature - 1822 - 880 pages
...Believe me, I have not been fool enough to neglect ordinary precautions. I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and...in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daanon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray from the...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 89

English literature - 1822 - 874 pages
...down my futare work to scale, divided it into volumes rod chapters, and endeavoured to con*««a»tory which I meant should evolve itself gradually and strikingly, maintain suspense, and stimulate curiosity ; and "hidi, finally, should terminate in a stri. Wig catastrophe. But I think there is a kmon who seats...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 18; Volume 36

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1823 - 608 pages
...latter admits his want of skill in construction in the following terms. ' I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and...in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a daemon who seats himse'u on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray fioit...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 18

1823 - 602 pages
...latter admits his want of skill in construction in the following terms. . ' I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and...in a striking catastrophe. But I think there is a dsmon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray from the...
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Waverley Novels: From the Last Rev. Ed., Containing the Author's Final ...

Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...Believe me, I have not been fool enough to neglect ordinary precautions. I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and...demon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when 1 begin to write, and leads it astray from the purpose. Characters expand under my hand ; incidents...
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The Jesuit in England; with the horrors of the Inquisition in Rome, Volume 526

John Russell (author of Alfred Barton.) - 1858 - 394 pages
...writes, 'I go on, whether I think of anything or not.' And, as Scott writes again, ' I think there's a demon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it from the purpose,' in which, singularly enough, I set out. " Pardon me, ladies and gentlemen, if I...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1864 - 364 pages
...Believe me, I have not been fool enough to neglect ordinary precautions. I have repeatedly laid down my future work to scale, divided it into volumes and...terminate in a striking catastrophe. But I think there ft a demon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray from...
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