The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 20R. Cadell, 1848 - Novelists, English |
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... seems to be sen- sible of his misconduct ; for when I was with him on Saturday morning at Linlithgow , he looked ... seem , for the first time , to have laboured under a kind of judicial infatuation . They did not defend the pas- sage of ...
... seems to be sen- sible of his misconduct ; for when I was with him on Saturday morning at Linlithgow , he looked ... seem , for the first time , to have laboured under a kind of judicial infatuation . They did not defend the pas- sage of ...
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... seem that a party of Camerons had plundered , or attempted to plunder , the lands of Grant of Moynes , lying on the bor- der of the lowland county of Murray . The Grants had overpowered and worsted the invaders , which did not prevent ...
... seem that a party of Camerons had plundered , or attempted to plunder , the lands of Grant of Moynes , lying on the bor- der of the lowland county of Murray . The Grants had overpowered and worsted the invaders , which did not prevent ...
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... , or , as it is called in their law , " forcible abduction 1 Memoirs of the Life of Simon Lord Lovat . London . 1797. 8vo . P. 60 . 2 Carstairs's State Papers , p . 434 . of women . " The inference seems to be , CULLODEN PAPERS . 63.
... , or , as it is called in their law , " forcible abduction 1 Memoirs of the Life of Simon Lord Lovat . London . 1797. 8vo . P. 60 . 2 Carstairs's State Papers , p . 434 . of women . " The inference seems to be , CULLODEN PAPERS . 63.
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Walter Scott. of women . " The inference seems to be , that , in some circumstances , no absolute infamy was at- tached even to those acts of violence , from which it seems impossible to divide it : and we remember a woman on the banks ...
Walter Scott. of women . " The inference seems to be , that , in some circumstances , no absolute infamy was at- tached even to those acts of violence , from which it seems impossible to divide it : and we remember a woman on the banks ...
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... circumstances , the English moralist seems to have considered as an ebullition of Highland vanity . Nothing , however , is more certain . The famous Rob Roy , for example , haunted the head of 74 MISCELLANEOUS CRITICISM .
... circumstances , the English moralist seems to have considered as an ebullition of Highland vanity . Nothing , however , is more certain . The famous Rob Roy , for example , haunted the head of 74 MISCELLANEOUS CRITICISM .
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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...