Sir Walter Scott: Broadcast Lectures to the Young |
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... wish you to remember just now is that ballads are the literature of people who can neither read nor write . If you do that you will understand some things about them . First , that many ballads are long ago lost . They ceased to be sung ...
... wish you to remember just now is that ballads are the literature of people who can neither read nor write . If you do that you will understand some things about them . First , that many ballads are long ago lost . They ceased to be sung ...
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... wish to speak about some of his characters to whom we may apply the epithet HEROIC . What that means I will not attempt to explain too exactly . For the present it is enough to say that I call any act heroic in which anyone rises above ...
... wish to speak about some of his characters to whom we may apply the epithet HEROIC . What that means I will not attempt to explain too exactly . For the present it is enough to say that I call any act heroic in which anyone rises above ...
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... wish to be home again . He grew worse on the journey down the Rhine , and it was with great difficulty that he was brought from London to Edinburgh by sea , and thence by carriage to Abbotsford , where he died on the 21st of September ...
... wish to be home again . He grew worse on the journey down the Rhine , and it was with great difficulty that he was brought from London to Edinburgh by sea , and thence by carriage to Abbotsford , where he died on the 21st of September ...
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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