Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Band 5Houghton, Mifflin, 1901 |
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Abbotsford Adam Ferguson admiration Allan Cunningham Anne Anne of Geierstein appeared Ballantyne beautiful believe Borthwickbrae breakfast brother bust Cadell called carriage Castle Castle Dangerous character Count Robert daughter dear death delighted Diary died dined dinner doubt Duke Duke of Wellington Edinburgh fancy father fear feelings gave gentleman give Gourgaud hand happy heart honor hope interest J. G. LOCKHART James Jedburgh John Journal kind King Lady Laidlaw late letter literary Lockhart London look Lord Malta manner mind Miss morning Naples never novel occasion October once pain painted party passed perhaps person picture political poor portrait post 8vo received recollections remained says scene Scotland Scottish seemed seen Sir Walter Scott Skene spirit story taste thing thought tion told Tom Purdie walked Waverley Waverley Novels Whig William Laidlaw wish write wrote young
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Seite 452 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Seite 440 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ...
Seite 61 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
Seite 293 - That Sir Walter Scott be requested to accept of his furniture, plate, linens, paintings, library, and curiosities of every description, as the best means the creditors have of expressing their very high sense of his most honourable conduct, and in grateful acknowledgment for the unparalleled and most successful exertions he has made, and continues to make, for them.
Seite 359 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred Power departing from their sight : While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.
Seite 359 - At noon on Thursday we left Abbotsford, and in the morning of that day Sir Walter and I had a serious conversation te'te-a-te'te, when he spoke with gratitude of the happy life which upon the whole he had led. He had written in my daughter's Album, before he came into the breakfast-room that morning, a few stanzas addressed to her, and, while putting the book into her hand, in his own study, standing by his desk, he said to her in my presence — "I should not have done anything of this 270 THE GALLANT...
Seite 60 - Unknown — the minstrel of our native land — the mighty magician who has rolled back the current of time, and conjured up before our living senses the men and the manners of days which have long passed away, stands revealed to the hearts and the eyes of his affectionate and admiring countrymen.
Seite 441 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Seite 104 - Jt was when laying down his book, and passing into this hall, through which the moon was beginning to shine, that the individual of whom I speak, saw right before him, and in a standing posture, the exact representation of his departed friend, whose recollection had been so strongly brought to his imagination. He stopped for a single moment, so as to notice the wonderful accuracy with which fancy had impressed upon the bodily eye the peculiarities of dress and posture of the illustrious poet.
Seite 104 - Not long after the death of a late illustrious poet, who had filled, while living, a great station in the eye of the public, a literary friend, to whom the deceased had been well known, was engaged, during the darkening twilight of an autumn evening, in perusing one of the publications which professed to detail the habits and opinions of the distinguished individual who was now no more. As the reader had enjoyed the intimacy of the deceased to a considerable degree, he was deeply interested in the...