Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: In Four Volumes, Volume 2A. & W. Galignani & Company, 1837 - Authors, Scottish |
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... Rob Roy projected - Letter to Southey on the Relief of the Poor , & c . - Letter to Lord Montagu on Hogg's Queen's Wake , and on the Death of Frances Lady Douglas.- CHAPTER XV . 1817 . Excursion to the Lennox - Glasgow - and Drumlanrig ...
... Rob Roy projected - Letter to Southey on the Relief of the Poor , & c . - Letter to Lord Montagu on Hogg's Queen's Wake , and on the Death of Frances Lady Douglas.- CHAPTER XV . 1817 . Excursion to the Lennox - Glasgow - and Drumlanrig ...
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... Rob Roy― . CHAPTER XVI . 1817 . Rob Roy published - Negociation concerning the Second Series of Tales of My Landlord - Commission to search for the Scottish Regalia - Let- ters to the Duke of Buccleuch - Mr Croker - Mr Morritt - Mr ...
... Rob Roy― . CHAPTER XVI . 1817 . Rob Roy published - Negociation concerning the Second Series of Tales of My Landlord - Commission to search for the Scottish Regalia - Let- ters to the Duke of Buccleuch - Mr Croker - Mr Morritt - Mr ...
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... Rob Roy ; and also a fresh heap of traditionary gleanings , which he had gathered among the tale - tellers of his district . One of these last was in the shape of a letter to Mr Train from a Mr Broadfoot , " schoolmaster at the clachan ...
... Rob Roy ; and also a fresh heap of traditionary gleanings , which he had gathered among the tale - tellers of his district . One of these last was in the shape of a letter to Mr Train from a Mr Broadfoot , " schoolmaster at the clachan ...
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... Rob Roy's spleuchan . The original design for the First Series of Jedediah Cleishbotham was , as Scott told me , to include four separate tales illustrative of four districts of the country , in the like number of volumes ; but , his ...
... Rob Roy's spleuchan . The original design for the First Series of Jedediah Cleishbotham was , as Scott told me , to include four separate tales illustrative of four districts of the country , in the like number of volumes ; but , his ...
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... for delivery , and no man asks for it . I shall want to pay up some cash at Whitsunday , which will make me draw on my brains . Yours truly , " W. SCOTT . " " To the Same . " Abbotsford , Saturday , ROB ROY PROJECTED . 237.
... for delivery , and no man asks for it . I shall want to pay up some cash at Whitsunday , which will make me draw on my brains . Yours truly , " W. SCOTT . " " To the Same . " Abbotsford , Saturday , ROB ROY PROJECTED . 237.
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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 !
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.