Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: In Four Volumes, Volumen2A. & W. Galignani & Company, 1837 |
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... called them , the midwives of literature , who are so much taken up with the abortions they bring into the world , that they are scarcely able to bestow the proper care upon young and flourishing babes like ours . That , however , is ...
... called them , the midwives of literature , who are so much taken up with the abortions they bring into the world , that they are scarcely able to bestow the proper care upon young and flourishing babes like ours . That , however , is ...
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... called him ) , and lost one ; and after him intervened one or two half- starved lairds , who rode a lean horse , and were followed by leaner greyhounds ; gathered with difficulty a hundred pounds from a hundred tenants ; fought duels ...
... called him ) , and lost one ; and after him intervened one or two half- starved lairds , who rode a lean horse , and were followed by leaner greyhounds ; gathered with difficulty a hundred pounds from a hundred tenants ; fought duels ...
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In Four Volumes John Gibson Lockhart. cocked their hats , and called themselves gentlemen . Then we come to the old Border times , cattle - driving , halters , and so forth , for which , in the matter of ho- nesty , very little I suppose ...
In Four Volumes John Gibson Lockhart. cocked their hats , and called themselves gentlemen . Then we come to the old Border times , cattle - driving , halters , and so forth , for which , in the matter of ho- nesty , very little I suppose ...
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... called a picked one . I will call at Ballantyne's as I return from this place , and close the letter with such news as I can get about it there . The book has gone off here very bobbishly ; for the im-- pression of 3000 and upwards is ...
... called a picked one . I will call at Ballantyne's as I return from this place , and close the letter with such news as I can get about it there . The book has gone off here very bobbishly ; for the im-- pression of 3000 and upwards is ...
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... connected with indigestion . We all know the horrible sensation of the nightmare arises from the same cause which gives those waking nightmares commonly called the blue devils . You must positively put 32 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... connected with indigestion . We all know the horrible sensation of the nightmare arises from the same cause which gives those waking nightmares commonly called the blue devils . You must positively put 32 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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Página 338 - But when dialogue of peculiar animation was in progress, spirit seemed to triumph altogether over matter — he arose from his couch and walked up and down the room, raising and lowering his voice, and as it were acting the parts.
Página 377 - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
Página 147 - If I could but hit Miss Edgeworth's wonderful power of vivifying all her persons, and making them live as beings in your mind, I should not be afraid...
Página 189 - We visited Corby Castle on our return to Scotland, which remains, in point of situation, as beautiful as when its walks were celebrated by David Hume, in the only rhymes he was ever known to be guilty of. Here they are, from a pane of glass in an inn at Carlisle : — ' Here chicks in eggs for breakfast sprawl, Here godless boys God's glories squall, Here Scotchmen's heads do guard the wall, But Corby "s walks atone for all.
Página 61 - Born a posthumous child, and bred up as an object of charity, he early adopted the custom of observing his birthday, as a term, not of joy, but of sorrow, and of reading, when it annually recurred, the striking passage of Scripture in which Job laments and execrates the day upon which it was said in his father's house
Página 290 - Willie brew'da peck o' maut; — and so it went on, until Scott and Erskine, with any clerical or very staid personage that had chanced to be admitted, saw fit to withdraw. Then the scene was changed. The claret and olives made way for broiled bones and a mighty bowl of punch ; and when a few glasses of the hot beverage had restored his powers, James opened ore rotunda on the merits of the forthcoming Romance. " One chapter — one chapter only !
Página 164 - I don't expect your conversion to be of such an ordinary kind. I would rather look to see you retreat upon the Catholic faith, and distinguish yourself by the austerity of your penances. The species of religion to which you must, or may, one day attach yourself must exercise a strong power on the imagination.
Página 249 - cried Scott, ' you have done wonders; you have shaken the Eildon hills with your roaring : you may now lay by your artillery for the rest of the day. Maida...
Página 168 - Braxfield forthwith put on his cocked hat (which answers to the black cap in England), and pronounced the sentence of the law in the usual terms — " To be hanged by the neck until you be dead ; and may the Lord have mercy upon your unhappy soul...
Página 251 - Arthur, with a fine deep sonorous voice, and a gravity of tone that seemed to suit the antiquated black-letter volume. It was a rich treat to hear such a work read by such a person, and in such a place ; and his appearance, as he sat reading, in a large arm-chair, with his favourite hound Maida at his feet, and surrounded by books and reliques, and Border trophies, would have formed an admirable and most characteristic picture.