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... Society . Flodden Field and Chevy Chase . - Putting on the Advocate's Gown - CHAPTER V. Retrospect . Cultivating the Graces . Raids in Liddesdale . - Border Ballads . At the Bar.- The Stove School . -Dressing up a Story.- Learning ...
... Society . Flodden Field and Chevy Chase . - Putting on the Advocate's Gown - CHAPTER V. Retrospect . Cultivating the Graces . Raids in Liddesdale . - Border Ballads . At the Bar.- The Stove School . -Dressing up a Story.- Learning ...
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... Society of Edinburgh . " Kenilworth " published.- Historical Pen - Portraits . - Remarkable Anachronisms . Royal So- ciety of Literature . - Death of John Ballantyne . - Secret Charities.- Coronation of George IV . . . . CHAPTER XX ...
... Society of Edinburgh . " Kenilworth " published.- Historical Pen - Portraits . - Remarkable Anachronisms . Royal So- ciety of Literature . - Death of John Ballantyne . - Secret Charities.- Coronation of George IV . . . . CHAPTER XX ...
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... society , to the kindred who so dearly loved that great and tender - hearted man , and to fair humanity itself . - The domestic relations at Abbotsford were true and tender , genial and loving . Few men were so free from vice as Scott ...
... society , to the kindred who so dearly loved that great and tender - hearted man , and to fair humanity itself . - The domestic relations at Abbotsford were true and tender , genial and loving . Few men were so free from vice as Scott ...
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... society . Having a wonderful facility in remem- bering verses , the quantity of Spenser's stanzas which he could repeat was " really marvellous . " But this faculty of memory was in force only to retain what Scott liked . " It seldom ...
... society . Having a wonderful facility in remem- bering verses , the quantity of Spenser's stanzas which he could repeat was " really marvellous . " But this faculty of memory was in force only to retain what Scott liked . " It seldom ...
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... Society . - Flodden Field and Chevy Chase . Putting on the Advocate's Gown . - 1786—1792 . N the 15th of May , 1786 , exactly three months before he had completed his fifteenth year , Scott - was indentured for five years as apprentice ...
... Society . - Flodden Field and Chevy Chase . Putting on the Advocate's Gown . - 1786—1792 . N the 15th of May , 1786 , exactly three months before he had completed his fifteenth year , Scott - was indentured for five years as apprentice ...
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