The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 20R. Cadell, 1848 - Novelists, English |
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... river Don ; and in the unequal conflict which ensued , Brux fell , with most of his friends . The estate descended to an only daughter , Katherine ; whose hand the wi- dowed Lady Brux , with a spirit well suited to the times , offered ...
... river Don ; and in the unequal conflict which ensued , Brux fell , with most of his friends . The estate descended to an only daughter , Katherine ; whose hand the wi- dowed Lady Brux , with a spirit well suited to the times , offered ...
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... rivers discharge them- selves , much arable ground ; and the mountains which surround these favoured spots afford ample pasture walks , and great abundance of game . Natural forests of oak , fir , and birch , are found in most places of ...
... rivers discharge them- selves , much arable ground ; and the mountains which surround these favoured spots afford ample pasture walks , and great abundance of game . Natural forests of oak , fir , and birch , are found in most places of ...
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... river Allan , two miles from the field of battle . Both parties retreated after this doubtful action , the Highlanders to Perth , the Duke of Argyle to Stirling but the ultimate advantage rested with the former . At this period of ...
... river Allan , two miles from the field of battle . Both parties retreated after this doubtful action , the Highlanders to Perth , the Duke of Argyle to Stirling but the ultimate advantage rested with the former . At this period of ...
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... river , we had nothing to struggle with except eel - weeds and alder - roots . In short , there was a spell in it , and we have our suspicions at this moment , that set a bucket of water before our comrade , he would have drawn out a ...
... river , we had nothing to struggle with except eel - weeds and alder - roots . In short , there was a spell in it , and we have our suspicions at this moment , that set a bucket of water before our comrade , he would have drawn out a ...
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... river ; but before he was fifty , palsy deprived him of the use of his limbs , and he is still a living example of the danger of the system which you are ambitious of adopting . " Orn . Well , I give up the wine , but I intend to wade ...
... river ; but before he was fifty , palsy deprived him of the use of his limbs , and he is still a living example of the danger of the system which you are ambitious of adopting . " Orn . Well , I give up the wine , but I intend to wade ...
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Page 168 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 93 - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me !
Page 95 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Page 106 - Garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Page 105 - I followed them up into Whitehall, and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one another's by one another's heads, and laughing.
Page 272 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of...
Page 29 - That they should take who had the power, And they should keep who can.
Page 135 - ... when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and at home, I was able to think of...
Page 105 - King took, methought, no notice of her; nor when they 'light did any body press (as she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but was taken down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of...
Page 118 - At noon home to dinner, and there find my wife extraordinary fine, with her flowered tabby gown that she made two years ago, now laced exceeding pretty ; and indeed was fine all over, and mighty earnest to go, though the day was very lowering ; and she would have me put on my fine suit, which I did. And so anon we went alone through the town with our new liveries of serge, and the horses...