The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Containing Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, Don Roderick, Rokeby, Ballads, Lyrics, and Songs. With a Life of the AuthorD. Appleton, 1894 - 647 pages |
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Page ix
... live at the farm , gradually becoming rugged , though his leg was somewhat shrunken and wasted . He was a remarkably precocious boy ; and the reading which he heard , and the stories of Border adventure which were related for his ...
... live at the farm , gradually becoming rugged , though his leg was somewhat shrunken and wasted . He was a remarkably precocious boy ; and the reading which he heard , and the stories of Border adventure which were related for his ...
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... live without any supply of pocket money ; and when Walter expressed his regret that he had not Gold- smith's art , so as to tramp like poor George Primrose from cottage to cottage over the world , his father replied : " I greatly doubt ...
... live without any supply of pocket money ; and when Walter expressed his regret that he had not Gold- smith's art , so as to tramp like poor George Primrose from cottage to cottage over the world , his father replied : " I greatly doubt ...
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... lives and fortunes of persons who had given them- selves up to literature , or to the task of pleasing the public , it seemed to me , that the circum- stances which chiefly affected their happiness and character , were those from which ...
... lives and fortunes of persons who had given them- selves up to literature , or to the task of pleasing the public , it seemed to me , that the circum- stances which chiefly affected their happiness and character , were those from which ...
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... lives , to become the still more degraded objects of pity to future times . Upon the whole , as I had no pretension to the genius of the distinguished persons who had fallen into such errors , I concluded there could be no occasion for ...
... lives , to become the still more degraded objects of pity to future times . Upon the whole , as I had no pretension to the genius of the distinguished persons who had fallen into such errors , I concluded there could be no occasion for ...
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... live to be a man , My father's death revenged shall be ! " Then fast the mother's tears did seek To dew the infant's kindling cheek . X. All loose her negligent attire , All loose her golden hair , Hung Margaret o'er her slaughter'd ...
... live to be a man , My father's death revenged shall be ! " Then fast the mother's tears did seek To dew the infant's kindling cheek . X. All loose her negligent attire , All loose her golden hair , Hung Margaret o'er her slaughter'd ...
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