The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volumen 10Carey & Hart, 1847 |
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... edition , a small dark quar- to of 1688 , from his friend Constable . He was breakfasting family , Sir John Swinton , extolled by Froissart , is when the present was delivered , and said , " This is indeed the the hero of the dramatic ...
... edition , a small dark quar- to of 1688 , from his friend Constable . He was breakfasting family , Sir John Swinton , extolled by Froissart , is when the present was delivered , and said , " This is indeed the the hero of the dramatic ...
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... ( edition 1724 ; ) " This book belonged to my grandfather , Robert Scott , and out of it I was taught Hardiknute by heart before I could read the ballad myself . It was the first poem I ever learnt - the last I shall ever forget ...
... ( edition 1724 ; ) " This book belonged to my grandfather , Robert Scott , and out of it I was taught Hardiknute by heart before I could read the ballad myself . It was the first poem I ever learnt - the last I shall ever forget ...
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... edition of what he witnessed under her hos- pitable roof . He records , in a note to the Novel , the " liberality and benevolence " of this " kind old lady , " in allowing him to rummage at pleasure , and carry home , any volumes he ...
... edition of what he witnessed under her hos- pitable roof . He records , in a note to the Novel , the " liberality and benevolence " of this " kind old lady , " in allowing him to rummage at pleasure , and carry home , any volumes he ...
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... edition of his anecdote . " Nay , " said he , " both stories may be true , and why should I be always lugging in myself , when what happened to another of our class would serve equally well for the purpose I had in view ? " I regretted ...
... edition of his anecdote . " Nay , " said he , " both stories may be true , and why should I be always lugging in myself , when what happened to another of our class would serve equally well for the purpose I had in view ? " I regretted ...
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... edition too , but it is below contempt . So many copies make the ballad famous , so that every day adds to your renown . " This here place is very , very dull . Erskine is in London my dear Thomson at Daily ; Macfarlan hatching Kant ...
... edition too , but it is below contempt . So many copies make the ballad famous , so that every day adds to your renown . " This here place is very , very dull . Erskine is in London my dear Thomson at Daily ; Macfarlan hatching Kant ...
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Abbotsford acquaintance Adam Ferguson admiration afterwards amusement ancient appearance Ashestiel ballad beautiful believe booksellers brother called Castle character Clerk Constable copy dear delighted doubt Duke of Buccleuch Edinburgh Edinburgh Review edition Ellis Erskine favour favourite feelings genius George Ellis give Guy Mannering hand heard Highland honour hope interest Isles James James Ballantyne Joanna Baillie John Ballantyne kind labour Lady land late Lerwick letter literary Loch London Lord Lord Byron Lord Melville manner Marmion ment mind Minstrel Minstrelsy Miss Morritt never occasion Old Mortality person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor present received rock Rokeby Rokeby Park romance scene Scotch Scotland seems Selkirkshire Sir Walter soon sort Southey spirit story suppose thing thought tion Tristrem verses WALTER SCOTT Waverley whole William Laidlaw wish write young
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Página 12 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Página 34 - 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.
Página 84 - Scott observed that, in the verses on Solomon's Temple, one striking circumstance had escaped him, namely, that no tools were used in its erection. Reginald retired for a few minutes to the corner of the room, and returned with the beautiful lines, — " No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Página 33 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that mother wept her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery baptized in tears.
Página 34 - ... clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents.
Página 275 - The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill, In Ettrick's vale, is sinking sweet ; The westland wind is hush and still — The lake lies sleeping at my feet. Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore : Though evening, with her richest dye, Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. ' With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride.
Página 177 - I understood him when he replied, ' that in nature herself no two scenes are exactly alike, and that whoever copied truly what was before his eyes, would possess the same variety in his descriptions, and exhibit apparently an imagination as boundless as the range of nature in the scenes he recorded...
Página 34 - I recollect pulling up the reins without meaning to do so, and gazing on the scene before me as if I had been afraid it would shift like those in a theatre before I could distinctly observe its different parts, or convince myself that what I saw was
Página 17 - True History of several honourable Families of the Right Honourable Name of Scot, in the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, and others adjacent, gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers...
Página 244 - He was often melancholy — almost gloomy. When I observed him in this humour, I used either to wait till it went off of its own accord, or till some natural and easy mode occurred of leading him into conversation, when the shadows almost always left his countenance, like the mist rising from a landscape. In conversation he was very animated.