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" The poem, my Lord, was not written upon contract for a sum of money — though it is too true that it was sold and published in a very unfinished state (which I have since regretted), to enable me to extricate myself from some engagements which fell suddenly... "
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Page 395
by John Gibson Lockhart - 1839
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 22

Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...given to the public without more particular enquiry. The poem, my lord, was not written upon conlract for a sum of money — though it is too true that...unexpected misfortunes of a very near relation. So that, to quote statute and precedent, I really come under the case cited by Juvenal, though not quite in the...
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Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart].

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...expression, had he seen the following letter : — " To the Right Honourable Lord Byron, fyc. SfC. Care of John Murray, Esq., Fleet Street, London. "Edinburgh,...unexpected misfortunes of a very near relation. So that, to quote statute and precedent, I really come under the case cited by Juvenal, though not quite in the...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - 1845 - 836 pages
...perhaps, I have some reason to complain, were given to the public without more particular inquiry. The poem, my Lord, was not written upon contract for...sold and published in a very unfinished state (which 1 have since regretted), to enable me to extricate myself from some engagements which fell suddenly...
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Narrative of the life of sir Walter Scott, bart., begun by himself and ...

John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 pages
...Byron, after some warm praise of Childe Harold, he passes to the old Marmion story and says : — " The poem, my Lord, was not written upon contract for...unexpected misfortunes of a very near relation. So that, to quote statute and precedent, I really come under the case cited by Juvenal, though not quite in the...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1850 - 868 pages
...published in a very unfinished state (which 1 have since regretted), to enable me to extricate myself (rom some engagements which fell suddenly upon me, by the...unexpected misfortunes of a very near relation. So that, to quote statute and precedent, I really come under the case cited by Juvenal, though not quite in the...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...Marmion story and says:—" The poem, my Lord, was nnt written upon contract for a sum of money—though it is too true that it was sold and published in a...from some engagements which fell suddenly upon me, by tho unexpected misfortunes of a very near relation. So that, to quote statute nnd precedent, I really...
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An Enquiry Into the Origin of the Authorship of Some of the Earlier Waverley ...

Gilbert James French - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1856 - 74 pages
...(Memoirs, vol. ii., p. 399), he says that Marmion " was sold and published in a very unfinished state, to enable me to extricate myself from some engagements...the unexpected misfortunes of a very near relation." Marmion was published about the time Thomas Seott left Edinburgh. (page 9), he observes that about...
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Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott: 1806-1812

John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 432 pages
...following letter : — " To the Right Honourable Lord Byron, fyc. fyc. Care of John Murray, £sq., Fltet Street, London. " Edinburgh, July 3d, 1812. " My Lord,...unexpected misfortunes of a very near relation. So that, to quote statute and precedent, I really come under the case cited by Juvenal, though not quite in the...
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Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3

John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 432 pages
...myself, as I dislike standing low in the opinion * Life and Works of Lorii Byron, vol. ii. p. 1 65. of any person whose talents rank so highly in my own,...unexpected misfortunes of a very near relation. So that, to quote statute and precedent, I really come under the case cited by Juvenal, though not quite in the...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 9

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 536 pages
...perhaps, I have ' some reason to complain, were given to the public without more ' particular inquiry. The poem, my Lord, was not written upon ' contract...regretted), to enable me to extricate myself from some engage' ments which fell suddenly upon me by the unexpected misfortunes ' of a very near relation....
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