Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart..Robert Cadell, Edinburgh. John Murray and Whittaker and Company, London., 1838 |
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... Coming through Galashiels , we met the Laird of Tor- woodlee , who , on hearing how long I had been confined , asked how I bore it , observing that he had once in his life - Torwoodlee must be between 60 and 70 - been confined for five ...
... Coming through Galashiels , we met the Laird of Tor- woodlee , who , on hearing how long I had been confined , asked how I bore it , observing that he had once in his life - Torwoodlee must be between 60 and 70 - been confined for five ...
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... coming into the world . But what signifies whether they die just now , or a little while after to be united with sallad at luncheon time ? It signifies a good deal too . There is a period , though a short one , when they dance among the ...
... coming into the world . But what signifies whether they die just now , or a little while after to be united with sallad at luncheon time ? It signifies a good deal too . There is a period , though a short one , when they dance among the ...
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... coming here to - day , that I should have the task of acknowledging , before 300 gentlemen , a secret which , considering that it was communicated to more than twenty people , has been remarkably well kept . I am now at the bar of my ...
... coming here to - day , that I should have the task of acknowledging , before 300 gentlemen , a secret which , considering that it was communicated to more than twenty people , has been remarkably well kept . I am now at the bar of my ...
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... coming home from the Court . Made a hard day of it . Scarce stirred from one room to another , but by bed - time finished a hand- some handful of copy . I have quoted Gourgaud's evi- dence ; I suppose he will be in a rare passion , and ...
... coming home from the Court . Made a hard day of it . Scarce stirred from one room to another , but by bed - time finished a hand- some handful of copy . I have quoted Gourgaud's evi- dence ; I suppose he will be in a rare passion , and ...
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... one who remembers that I , twenty years older than Scott , conversed with Paoli in the twentieth year of my age , and with Napoleon himself in the sixtieth . " Through that long series of years , coming more 42 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... one who remembers that I , twenty years older than Scott , conversed with Paoli in the twentieth year of my age , and with Napoleon himself in the sixtieth . " Through that long series of years , coming more 42 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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Стр. 19 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
Стр. 396 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ...
Стр. 311 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height: Spirits of power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing from their sight : While Tweed best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again. Lift up your hearts, ye mourners! for the might Of the whole world's good wishes with him goes ; Blessings and prayers in nobler retinue Than sceptered king or laurelled conqueror knows,...
Стр. 296 - My wound is deep ; I fain would sleep ; Take thou the vanguard of the three, And hide me by the braken bush, That grows on yonder lilye lee.
Стр. 397 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Стр. 264 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Стр. 282 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Стр. 283 - I have not heard a word since you said so and so,' being sure to mention a circumstance behind that at which he had really halted. He then took up the thread with his habitual smile of courtesy, as if forgetting his case entirely in the consideration of the lady's infirmity.
Стр. 409 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Стр. 190 - They all had wit. The Earl's was crackbrained and sometimes caustic; Henry's was of the very kindest, best-humoured, and gayest sort that ever cheered society; that of Lord Erskine was moody and muddish.