| Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...interesting a hundred years hence, than the grandest so-called historical picture that you will ever exhihit in Somerset-House ; " and my friend agreed with me...doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing match on Newark Hill. Th^only guest who had chalked out other... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 458 pages
...soar beyond his gun and pointer — or perhaps a little pseudo-dandy, for whom the Kelso race-coufse and the Jedburgh ball were "Life," and "the World;"...doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing match on Newark Hill. The only guest who had chalked out... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1839 - 466 pages
...yield : and therewith we will quit Abbotsford and the dominant and culminant period of Scott's life : 'It was a clear, bright, September morning, with a...doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing match on Newark Hill. The only guest who had chalked out... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...hence, than the grandest so-called historical picture that you will ever exhibit at Somerset House ;" and my friend agreed with me so cordially, that I...doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing match on Newark Hill. The only guest who had chalked out... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 464 pages
...yield : and therewith we will quit Abbotsford and the dominant and culminant period of Scott's life : ' It was a clear, bright, September morning, with a...doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing match on Newark Hill. The only guest who had chalked out... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...hence, than the grandest so-called historical picture that you will ever exhibit at Somerset House;" and my friend agreed with me so cordially, that I...however, to have been treated conjointly by him (or \\ilkir) and KI M in Landseer. It was a clear, bright September morning, with a sharpness in thu air... | |
| William C. Stewart - 1857 - 428 pages
...native country to die. Lockhart draws a delightful picture of the life at Abbotsford in 1820 :— " It was a clear, bright, September morning, with a...doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a general coursing-match on Newark Hill. The only guest who had chalked out... | |
| James Glass Bertram - Fishing - 1858 - 218 pages
...native country to die. Lockhart draws a delightful picture of the life at Abbotsford in 1820 : — " It was a clear, bright, September morning, with a...doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a general coursing-match on Newark Hill. The only guest who had chalked out... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1860 - 534 pages
...dominant and culminant period of Scott's life: 1 Vol. v. pp. 375-402. ' It was a clear, bright SeptemlxT morning, with a sharpness in the air that doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, arol all wa, in readiness tor a grand coursing-match on Newark Hill. The only guest who had chalked... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - Authors, Scottish - 1879 - 206 pages
...hence than the grandest so-called historical picture that you will ever exhibit in Somerset House ;' and my friend agreed with me so cordially that I often wondered afterwards he had not attempted to realizp the suggestion. The subject ought, however, to have been treated conjointly by him (or Wilkie)... | |
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