The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 4Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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... received the light . The reign of James I. of England possessed this advantage in a peculiar degree . Some beams of chivalry , although its planet had been for some time set , continued to animate and gild the horizon , and although ...
... received the light . The reign of James I. of England possessed this advantage in a peculiar degree . Some beams of chivalry , although its planet had been for some time set , continued to animate and gild the horizon , and although ...
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... received you so kindly , and to the critics , who have treated you so leniently , ought to induce you to bestow more pains on your story . Author . I do entreat you , my son , as Dr. Johnson would have said , " free your mind from cant ...
... received you so kindly , and to the critics , who have treated you so leniently , ought to induce you to bestow more pains on your story . Author . I do entreat you , my son , as Dr. Johnson would have said , " free your mind from cant ...
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... received , perhaps we should say fortunately , a wound , which served him as an excuse for answer- ing no invitations of the kind in future . Sir Rullion Rattray , of Rannagullion , cut off , in mortal combat , three of the fingers of ...
... received , perhaps we should say fortunately , a wound , which served him as an excuse for answer- ing no invitations of the kind in future . Sir Rullion Rattray , of Rannagullion , cut off , in mortal combat , three of the fingers of ...
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... received by that monarch , in whose behalf his family had been nearly reduced to ruin ; and he was , with the usual mental anxiety of those in such a situation , framing imaginary questions from the King , and over - toiling his spirit ...
... received by that monarch , in whose behalf his family had been nearly reduced to ruin ; and he was , with the usual mental anxiety of those in such a situation , framing imaginary questions from the King , and over - toiling his spirit ...
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... received the young lord he was fain to see them twa stand side by side ; very graciously , and observed to his introducer , that for I trow , my Lord Huntinglen , " continued he , " your ancestors , ay , and e'en your lordship's self ...
... received the young lord he was fain to see them twa stand side by side ; very graciously , and observed to his introducer , that for I trow , my Lord Huntinglen , " continued he , " your ancestors , ay , and e'en your lordship's self ...
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