Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Том 5R. Cadell, 1839 |
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66 Edinburgh 66 My Dear Abbotsford amusement anecdotes appeared Ballantyne's beautiful Blackwood bookseller Bowhill called Castle Constable Dear Morritt Dear Terry delighted dinner doubt Duke of Buccleuch edition Erskine favourite feelings Fergusson genius gentlemen give Grace Guy Mannering hand heard Hogg honour hope humour Isles J. B. S. Morritt James Ballantyne Jedediah Cleishbotham Joanna Baillie John Ballantyne Kaeside kind labour Lady Laidlaw laird Landlord letter literary London look Lord Byron Maida Melrose mind Murray never novel occasion Old Mortality person poem poet poetical poor present Prince Regalia Rob Roy Rokeby scene Scotch Scotland seemed Selkirk Selkirkshire Sheriff spirit St John Street STANZA story Street thing thought tion told Tom Purdie truly volume WALTER SCOTT Waterloo Waverley Waverley Novels William Laidlaw wish word write Yarrow young
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Страница 39 - No — 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.
Страница 358 - Had this very story been conducted by a common hand, Effie would have attracted all our concern and sympathy, Jeanie only cold approbation. Whereas Jeanie, without youth, beauty, genius, warm passions, or any other novel perfection, is here our object from beginning to end.
Страница 48 - Towards midnight, the Prince called for " a bumper, with all the honours, to the Author of Waverley," and looked significantly, as he was charging his own glass, to Scott. Scott seemed somewhat puzzled for a moment, but instantly recovering himself, and...
Страница 246 - Scott proposed a ramble to show me something of the surrounding country. As we sallied forth, every dog in the establishment turned out to attend us. There was the old stag-hound Maida...
Страница 315 - Were you not struck with the fantastical coincidence of our nocturnal disturbances at Abbotsford with the melancholy event that followed ? I protest to you, the noise resembled half-a-dozen men hard at work putting up boards and furniture, and nothing can be more certain than that there was nobody on the premises at the time.
Страница 133 - The harmless Albatross. The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.
Страница 322 - X and date of the loan, tacked on its front. The old bindings had obviously been retouched and regilt in the most approved manner ; the new, when the books were of any mark, were rich but never gaudy — a large proportion of blue morocco — all stamped with his device of the portcullis, and its motto, clausus tutus ero — being an anagram of his name in Latin.
Страница 238 - And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride. The quiet lake, the balmy air, The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree, — Are they still such as once they were, Or is the dreary change in me ? Alas, the warp'd and broken board, How can it bear the painter's dye ! The harp of strain'd and tuneless chord, How to the minstrel's skill reply ! To aching eyes each landscape lowers, To feverish pulse each gale blows chill ; And Araby's or Eden's bowers Were barren as this moorland hill.
Страница 38 - Report had prepared me to meet a man of peculiar habits and a quick temper, and I had some doubts whether we were likely to suit each other in society. I was most agreeably disappointed in this respect. I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even kind.
Страница 380 - Has not our own imaginative poet cause to fear that future ages will desire to summon him from his place of rest, as Milton longed To call up him. who left half told The story of Cambuscan bold...