Story of the life of sir Walter Scott, revised, with additions, incl. the autobiographyW. & R Chambers, 1894 - 144 pages |
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... whole savings , about £ 30 , to stock the new farm . With this sum , which it seems was at the time sufficient for the purpose , the master and servant set off to purchase a stock of sheep at Whitsun - Tryste , a fair held on a hill ...
... whole savings , about £ 30 , to stock the new farm . With this sum , which it seems was at the time sufficient for the purpose , the master and servant set off to purchase a stock of sheep at Whitsun - Tryste , a fair held on a hill ...
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... of head , the very tools for raising a hero to eminence . So , on the whole , I made a brighter figure in the yards than in the class . с 34 CHAPTER II . AUTOBIOGRAPHY - continued . LIFE AT AUTOBIOGRAPHY - EARLY YEARS . 33.
... of head , the very tools for raising a hero to eminence . So , on the whole , I made a brighter figure in the yards than in the class . с 34 CHAPTER II . AUTOBIOGRAPHY - continued . LIFE AT AUTOBIOGRAPHY - EARLY YEARS . 33.
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... whole life acted merely upon its own capricious motion , and might have enabled me to adopt old Beattie of Meikledale's answer when complimented by a certain reverend divine on the strength of the same faculty : ' No , sir , ' answered ...
... whole life acted merely upon its own capricious motion , and might have enabled me to adopt old Beattie of Meikledale's answer when complimented by a certain reverend divine on the strength of the same faculty : ' No , sir , ' answered ...
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... whole Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy tribe I abhorred , and it required the art of Burney , or the feeling of Mackenzie , to fix my attention upon a domestic tale . But all that was ad- venturous and romantic I devoured without much dis ...
... whole Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy tribe I abhorred , and it required the art of Burney , or the feeling of Mackenzie , to fix my attention upon a domestic tale . But all that was ad- venturous and romantic I devoured without much dis ...
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... Whole holidays were spent in this singular pastime , which continued for two or three years , and had , I believe , no small effect in directing the turn of my imagination to the chivalrous and romantic in poetry and prose . Meanwhile ...
... Whole holidays were spent in this singular pastime , which continued for two or three years , and had , I believe , no small effect in directing the turn of my imagination to the chivalrous and romantic in poetry and prose . Meanwhile ...
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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.