Sir Walter Scott: the Man and PatriotHeinemann, 1970 - 244 pages |
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Page 80
... Lady of the Lake ' . This displayed Ellen's Isle on Loch Katrine containing life - like and life - sized wax figures . It always drew large crowds . Boys at their preparatory schools in Scotland at the same period were sufficiently ...
... Lady of the Lake ' . This displayed Ellen's Isle on Loch Katrine containing life - like and life - sized wax figures . It always drew large crowds . Boys at their preparatory schools in Scotland at the same period were sufficiently ...
Page 83
... Lady of the Lake was offered to the world on its poetic and Celtically charged ( rather over- charged ) merits ; the world received ' The Lady ' rapturously on her exciting beauties alone . These three long narrative poems ending in the ...
... Lady of the Lake was offered to the world on its poetic and Celtically charged ( rather over- charged ) merits ; the world received ' The Lady ' rapturously on her exciting beauties alone . These three long narrative poems ending in the ...
Page 87
... Lady of the Lake . It was the impetuosity , ease and obvious enjoyment with which he composed The Lay , Marmion and The Lady of the Lake that gave him his hold over so many readers . Could he have kept this up ? Could he have , as ...
... Lady of the Lake . It was the impetuosity , ease and obvious enjoyment with which he composed The Lay , Marmion and The Lady of the Lake that gave him his hold over so many readers . Could he have kept this up ? Could he have , as ...
Contents
the City of His Birth II | 11 |
a Dream and a Reality | 25 |
Makin Himself | 33 |
Copyright | |
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