Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott: In Four Volumes, Volume 2A. & W. Galignani & Company, 1837 - Authors, Scottish |
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Page 70
... Rock light until the wind grew rough , and the landsmen sick . To bed at eleven , and slept sound . : 30th July . - Waked at six by the steward summoned to visit the Bell- Rock , where the beacon is well worthy attention . Its ...
... Rock light until the wind grew rough , and the landsmen sick . To bed at eleven , and slept sound . : 30th July . - Waked at six by the steward summoned to visit the Bell- Rock , where the beacon is well worthy attention . Its ...
Page 71
... rocks , being rather soft , are wasted and corroded by the constant action of the waves , and the fragments which remain ... rock , and nothing above but the blue sky . fishing hamlet had sent out its inhabitants , who , gazing from the ...
... rocks , being rather soft , are wasted and corroded by the constant action of the waves , and the fragments which remain ... rock , and nothing above but the blue sky . fishing hamlet had sent out its inhabitants , who , gazing from the ...
Page 75
... rocks , interspersed with a stinted vegetation of grass and heath , which bears no proportion to the rocks and stones . From the top of his tower the Pictish Monarch might look out upon a stormy sea , washing a succession of rocky capes ...
... rocks , interspersed with a stinted vegetation of grass and heath , which bears no proportion to the rocks and stones . From the top of his tower the Pictish Monarch might look out upon a stormy sea , washing a succession of rocky capes ...
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... rock and rock . The purpose of the strange contrivance is to give the tenant the benefit of putting a few sheep upon the Holm , the top of which is level , and affords good pasture . The animals are transported in the cradle by one at a ...
... rock and rock . The purpose of the strange contrivance is to give the tenant the benefit of putting a few sheep upon the Holm , the top of which is level , and affords good pasture . The animals are transported in the cradle by one at a ...
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... rock shall abide and endure . ' He did not or would not understand that the oppression , rapacity , and cruelty by means of which the house arose , were what the clergyman really pointed to in his recommendation of a motto . Accordingly ...
... rock shall abide and endure . ' He did not or would not understand that the oppression , rapacity , and cruelty by means of which the house arose , were what the clergyman really pointed to in his recommendation of a motto . Accordingly ...
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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.