 | Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...talk" had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bed-lime of Abbotsford — " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion !. Eh, sirs !" he added, cocking his eye like a hird, "I wonder if Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up T' . Since I have touched on... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 830 pages
...talk' had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — ' Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up ?' " The Abbotuford Hunt, commemorated yearly upon tbe birth-day of the future representative of the... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 826 pages
...talk' had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — ' Giule preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...added, cocking his eye like a bird, ' I wonder if Shakspcare and Baron ever met to screw ilk other up ?' " The Abbotxford Hunt, commemorated yearly upon... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...preserve us! this is a very superior occasion! Eh, sirs!" he added, cocking his eye like a hird, " I wonder if Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw Ilk other up?" Since Ihave touched on the subject of Sir Walter's autumnal diversions in these his later years, I may as... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion I Eh, sirs !" he added, cocking his eye like a bird,...other up ?" Since I have touched on the subject of Sir Walters autumnal diversions in these his latter years, I may as well notice here two annual festivals,... | |
 | Xavier Donald MacLeod - Authors, Scottish - 1852 - 324 pages
...'rapt talk' had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford, ' Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...wonder if Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk ither up ?' ' Besides such occasional divertisements, there were two annual frolics of great solemnity.... | |
 | Xavier Donald MacLeod - Authors, Scottish - 1852 - 336 pages
...rapt talk' had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford, ' Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...bird, ' I wonder if Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to iscrew ilk ither up ?' ' Besides such occasional divertisements, there were two annual frolics of great... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...the usual bedtime of Abbotsford—" Gudo preserve us I this is a very superior occasion.I Eh, sirs 1" he added, cocking his eye like a bird, " I wonder...other up ?" Since I have touched on the subject of Sir Walters autumnal diversions in these his latter years, I may as well notice here two annual festivals,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1871 - 356 pages
...talk " had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...subject of Sir Walter's autumnal diversions in these his latter years, I may as well notice here two annual festivals, when sport was made his pretext for assembling... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...last, Laidlaw broke out with — ' Gude preserve us ; this is a very superior occasion ! Eh, sirs ! I wonder if Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up ! ' In 1826 occurred the crash of Scott's fortunes, through the failure of the houses of Constable... | |
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Laidlaw whispering to me, one night, when their " rapt talk " had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh, sirs... 
