Descriptive Catalogue of the Writings of Sir Walter ScottJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1898 - 106 pages |
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... literary sign - posts indicating the road of knowledge over which certain sections of books will carry them . This leads to the thought that there are many sorts of catalogues which should be ac- cessible in public libraries . Without a ...
... literary sign - posts indicating the road of knowledge over which certain sections of books will carry them . This leads to the thought that there are many sorts of catalogues which should be ac- cessible in public libraries . Without a ...
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... literary material , gathered together at great cost and with much labour , dealing with an infinite variety of subjects concerning different countries and far dis- tant periods of time , is practically lost . The writer had occasion ...
... literary material , gathered together at great cost and with much labour , dealing with an infinite variety of subjects concerning different countries and far dis- tant periods of time , is practically lost . The writer had occasion ...
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... literary imposture of the Rowley poems are interesting reading , although many volumes have been written on the subject since Sir W. Scott's review of the first collected edition of this remarkable youth's poems , whose " life and death ...
... literary imposture of the Rowley poems are interesting reading , although many volumes have been written on the subject since Sir W. Scott's review of the first collected edition of this remarkable youth's poems , whose " life and death ...
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... literary industry in the last painful years of his life , when suffering a medical martyrdom , are a curious warning how " the most " fertile fancy may be exhausted by the lavish prodigality of its possessor . " The three novels ...
... literary industry in the last painful years of his life , when suffering a medical martyrdom , are a curious warning how " the most " fertile fancy may be exhausted by the lavish prodigality of its possessor . " The three novels ...
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... literary favourite of his " contemporaries . " This was Scott's first departure from writing " Scottish " novels . " He had a perfect fascination , apparently , for writing anony- mously , and proposed to do so in this instance , but ...
... literary favourite of his " contemporaries . " This was Scott's first departure from writing " Scottish " novels . " He had a perfect fascination , apparently , for writing anony- mously , and proposed to do so in this instance , but ...
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Page 44 - And think'st thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade.
Page 68 - It came from mine own heart, so to my head, And thence into my fingers trickled; Then to my pen, from whence immediately On paper I did dribble it daintily.
Page 17 - In estimating its merits, however, we should forget that it is offered as an imitation. The diction undoubtedly reminds us of a rhythm and cadence we have heard before ; but the sentiments, descriptions, and characters, have qualities that are native and unborrowed.
Page 36 - Ivanhoe marks the most brilliant epoch in Scott's history as the literary favourite of his contemporaries. With the novel which he next put forth, the immediate sale of these works began gradually to decline ; and though even when that had reached its lowest declension, it was still far above the most ambitious dreams of any other novelist, yet the publishers were afraid the announcement of...
Page 69 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE. 'Sportsmen of all descriptions will gladly welcome the sumptuous new edition issued by Mr. Edward Arnold of Colonel T. Thornton's Sporting Tour...
Page 40 - Colonell for his Majesties service of Denmark, and reduced after the battaile of Nerling to one Company, in September 1634, at Wormes, in the Palz.
Page 76 - No, John, I will not own the book — I won't, you Piccaroon. When next I try St. Grubby's brook, The A. of Wa— shall bait the hook — And flat-fish bite as soon, As if before them they had got The worn-out wriggler WALTIR SCOTT.
Page 37 - Yet it was strange to hear anything like the words which I (then in agony of pain with spasms in my stomach) dictated to William Laidlaw at Abbotsford, now recited in a foreign tongue, and for the amusement of a strange people. I little thought to have survived the completing of this novel.
Page 75 - THE Castle of Otranto is remarkable, not only for the wild interest of the story, but as the first modern attempt to found a tale of amusing fiction upon the basis of the ancient romances of chivalry.
Page 30 - I'll find a way to make them dee. The first o' them was wind and weet, The second o' them was snaw and sleet, • Hogg, a sheep in its second year.