Story of the life of sir Walter Scott, revised, with additions, incl. the autobiographyW. & R Chambers, 1894 - 144 pages |
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... learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and that I would at this moment give half the reputation I have had the good fortune to ...
... learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and that I would at this moment give half the reputation I have had the good fortune to ...
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... learning , and a friend of Dr Pitcairn , to whom his politics probably made him acceptable . They had a Tory or Jacobite club in Edinburgh , in which the conversation is Isaid to have been maintained in Latin . Old Beardie died in a ...
... learning , and a friend of Dr Pitcairn , to whom his politics probably made him acceptable . They had a Tory or Jacobite club in Edinburgh , in which the conversation is Isaid to have been maintained in Latin . Old Beardie died in a ...
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... learning ; and it will be well if he does not also imitate them in that indifference which is contented with bustling over a lesson , so as to avoid punishment , without affecting superiority , or aiming at reward . It was probably ...
... learning ; and it will be well if he does not also imitate them in that indifference which is contented with bustling over a lesson , so as to avoid punishment , without affecting superiority , or aiming at reward . It was probably ...
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... learning to maintain . Dr Adam , to whom I owed so much , never failed to remind me of my obliga- tions when I had made some figure in the literary world . He was , indeed , deeply imbued with that fortunate vanity which alone could ...
... learning to maintain . Dr Adam , to whom I owed so much , never failed to remind me of my obliga- tions when I had made some figure in the literary world . He was , indeed , deeply imbued with that fortunate vanity which alone could ...
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... learning be flimsy and inaccurate , the reader must have some com- passion even for an idle workman , who had so narrow a foundation to build upon . If , however , it should ever fall to the lot of youth to peruse these pages , let such ...
... learning be flimsy and inaccurate , the reader must have some com- passion even for an idle workman , who had so narrow a foundation to build upon . If , however , it should ever fall to the lot of youth to peruse these pages , let such ...
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Page 78 - ... of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty. I do not remember any part of his conversation distinctly enough to be quoted, nor did I ever see him again, except in the street, where he did not recognise me, as I could not expect he should. He was much caressed in Edinburgh, but (considering what literary emoluments...
Page 77 - ... it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a halfforgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of
Page 78 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Page 133 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Page 41 - Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration, by an editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.
Page 141 - ... let the woodbine twine, And leave untrimmed the eglantine: Nay, my friend, nay — since oft thy praise Hath given fresh vigour to my lays, Since oft thy judgment could refine My flattened thought or cumbrous line, Still kind, as is thy wont, attend, And in the minstrel spare the friend. Though wild as cloud, as stream, as gale, Flow forth, flow unrestrained, my tale!
Page 76 - I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him...
Page 52 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a; A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 134 - It was a beautiful dny — so warm that every window was wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed. and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Page 82 - I's be a bit feared for him now ; he's just a chield like ourselves, I think." Half-a-dozen dogs of all degrees had already gathered round " the advocate," and his way of returning their compliments had set Willie Elliot at once at his ease.