The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 2Conner & Cooke, 1833 - English literature |
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... sort of parental control over these works , he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a cor- rected , and , he hopes , an improved form , while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them . Such being ...
... sort of parental control over these works , he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a cor- rected , and , he hopes , an improved form , while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them . Such being ...
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... sort , I do not recollect any of these novels , in which I have trans- gressed so widely as in the first of the series . Among other unfounded reports , it has been said , that the copyright of Waverley was , during the book's progress ...
... sort , I do not recollect any of these novels , in which I have trans- gressed so widely as in the first of the series . Among other unfounded reports , it has been said , that the copyright of Waverley was , during the book's progress ...
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... sort , Who to the wounded had no mood But murd'ring sport ! • E'en both at Preston and Falkirk , That fatal night ere it grew mirk , Piercing the wounded with their durk , Caused many cry ! Such pity's shown from savage and Turk , As ...
... sort , Who to the wounded had no mood But murd'ring sport ! • E'en both at Preston and Falkirk , That fatal night ere it grew mirk , Piercing the wounded with their durk , Caused many cry ! Such pity's shown from savage and Turk , As ...
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... sort of gratification rendered it daily more diffi- rod was speedily flung aside . Society and example , calt of attainment , till the passion for reading , like which , more than any other motives , master and other strong appetites ...
... sort of gratification rendered it daily more diffi- rod was speedily flung aside . Society and example , calt of attainment , till the passion for reading , like which , more than any other motives , master and other strong appetites ...
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... sort of protection - money that Low - country gentlemen and heritors , lying near the Highlands , pay to some Highland chief , that he may neither do them harm himself , nor suffer it to be done to them by others ; and then if your ...
... sort of protection - money that Low - country gentlemen and heritors , lying near the Highlands , pay to some Highland chief , that he may neither do them harm himself , nor suffer it to be done to them by others ; and then if your ...
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Page 31 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 75 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Page 18 - ... bields, to sleep with the tod and the blackcock in the muirs ! — Ride your ways, Ellangowan, — Our bairns are hinging at our weary backs — look that your braw cradle at hame be the fairer spread up : not that I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise...
Page 19 - ... those passions common to men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.
Page 14 - Deprived of the view of the beacon on which they had relied, they now experienced the double agony of terror and suspense. They struggled forward, however; but, when they arrived at the point from which they ought to have seen the crag, it was no longer visible. The signal of safety was lost among a thousand white breakers, which, dashing upon the point of the promontory, rose in prodigious sheets of snowy foam as high as the mast of a first-rate man-of-war against the dark brow of the precipice....
Page 14 - It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the storm mingled with the shrieks of the seafowl, and sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings who, pent between two of the most magnificent yet most dreadful objects of nature, — a raging tide and an insurmountable precipice, — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often lashed by the spray of some giant billow, which threw itself higher on the beach than those that had preceded it Each minute did their enemy gain ground perceptibly...
Page 143 - But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressive, has nevertheless been gradual; and, like those who drift down the stream of a deep and smooth river, we are not aware of the progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now distant point from which we have been drifted.
Page 136 - Saxon gentlemen are laughing," he said, "because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they may be very right ; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my word and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a Hielandman, nor the honour of a gentleman.
Page 136 - There was a murmur of compassion among the spectators, from the idea that the poor fellow intended to plead the influence of his superior as an excuse for his crime. The judge commanded silence, and encouraged Evan to proceed. " I was only ganging to say, my lord," said Evan, in what he meant to be an insinuating manner, " that if your excellent Honour and the honourable court would let Vich Ian Vohr go free just this once, and let him gae back to Prance, and no to trouble King George's government...
Page 13 - Following the windings of the beach, they passed one projecting point, or head-land of rock, after another, and now found themselves under a huge and continued extent of the precipices by which that iron-bound coast is in most places defended. Long projecting reefs of rock, extending under water, and only evincing their existence by here and there a peak entirely bare, or by the breakers which foamed over those that were partially covered, rendered Knockwinnock Bay dreaded by pilots and ship-masters....