Sir Walter Scott: Broadcast Lectures to the Young |
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... seen . A successor to Camp was a deer - hound , Maida , who , while he wrote , lay on the hearth , or rising occasion- ally laid down his head on his master's knee , or going to the door gave it a blow with his paw , whereupon his ...
... seen . A successor to Camp was a deer - hound , Maida , who , while he wrote , lay on the hearth , or rising occasion- ally laid down his head on his master's knee , or going to the door gave it a blow with his paw , whereupon his ...
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... seen on old Sir Robert's coffin , and in despair and anger ex- claimed : " In hell , if you will have my thoughts -with your father — his jackanape — and the whistle . " Saying this he ran from the house and rode off for his farm . And ...
... seen on old Sir Robert's coffin , and in despair and anger ex- claimed : " In hell , if you will have my thoughts -with your father — his jackanape — and the whistle . " Saying this he ran from the house and rode off for his farm . And ...
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... seen in our own time horrid murders committed in the name of patriotism . But murder is always wicked , and generally such deeds as the murder of William the Silent or Henri IV . have done not only dishonour but fatal injury to the ...
... seen in our own time horrid murders committed in the name of patriotism . But murder is always wicked , and generally such deeds as the murder of William the Silent or Henri IV . have done not only dishonour but fatal injury to the ...
Contents
Stories of Scotts Boyhood page II | 11 |
How the Ballads led to the Poems | 41 |
How the Poems led to the Novels | 55 |
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