 THIS HUMBLE INDIVIDUAL PRACTISED IN REAL LIFE THE VIRTUES WITH WHICH FICTION HAS INVESTED THE IMAGINARY CHARACTER OF JEANIE DEANS; REFUSING THE SLIGHTEST DEPARTURE FROM VERACITY, EVEN TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A SISTER, SHE NEVERTHELESS SHOWED HER KINDNESS...  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Стр. 118авторы: John Gibson Lockhart - 1839Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - Страниц: 234
...to save the life of her sister. She nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal..., Respect the grave of poverty, when combined with the love of truth and dear affection. Thus lived and died Helen Walker. In her case virtue was indeed... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1881 - Страниц: 306
...save her sister's life, but did journey to London on foot to save her. The epitaph bids the wayfarer " Respect the grave of poverty when combined with love of truth and dear affection." Not much farther on is the solitary monument of the old decipherer of mossy epitaphs, " Old Mortality."... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1881 - Страниц: 278
...save her sister's life, but did journey to London on foot to save her. The epitaph bids the wayfarer " Respect the grave of poverty when combined with love of truth and dear affection." Not much farther on is the solitary monument of the old decipherer of mossy epitaphs, " Old Mortality."... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1881 - Страниц: 294
...sister's life, but did journey to London on foot to save her. The epitaph bids the wayfarer " Kespect the grave of poverty when combined with love of truth and dear affection." Not much farther on is the solitary monument of the old decipherer of mossy epitaphs, " Old Mortality."... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - Страниц: 384
...EVEN TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A SISTER, SHE NEVERTHELESS SHOWED HER KINDNESS AND FORTITUDE, IS RESCUING HER FROM THE SEVERITY OF THE LAW, AT THE EXPENSE OF PERSONAL...AFFECTION. It was on this day also that he completed the pre-- face for his forthcoming Tales ; and the conclusion is so remarkable that I must copy it : —... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1885 - Страниц: 426
...even to save the life of a sister, she nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal...when combined with love of truth and dear affection.' 1739The potato — introduced from its native South American ground by Raleigh into Ireland, and so... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - Страниц: 592
...EVEN TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A SISTER, SHE NEVERTHELESS SHOWED HER KINDNESS AND FORTITUDE, IN RESCUING HER FROM THE SEVERITY OF THE LAW, AT THE EXPENSE OF PERSONAL...WHEN COMBINED WITH LOVE OF TRUTH AND DEAR AFFECTION. Erected October 1831. NOTE 0, p. 68. — THE OLD TOLBOOTH. The ancient Tolbooth of Edinburgh, situated... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - Страниц: 1040
...SISTER, SHE NEVERTHELESS SHOWED HER KINDNESS AND FORTITUDE, 01 RESCUING HER FROM THE SEVERITY OF THE LAV AT THE EXPENSE OF PERSONAL EXERTIONS WHICH THE TIME...RENDERED AS DIFFICULT AS THE MOTIVE WAS LAUDABLE. RBSPBCT THE GRAVE OF POVERTY WHEN' COMBINED WITH LOVE OF TRUTH AND DEAR AFFECTION. Brtettd Octottr... | |
 | Walter Scott, David Douglas - 1890 - Страниц: 538
...even to save the life of a sister, she nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude, in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal...laudable. Respect the grave of Poverty when combined with the love of Truth and dear affection." It is well known that on the publication of Old Mortality many... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1890 - Страниц: 538
...even to save the life of a sister, she nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude, in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal...which the time rendered as difficult as the motive was landable. Respect the grave of Poverty when combined with the love of Truth and dear affection." It... | |
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