Sir Walter Scott: the Man and PatriotHeinemann, 1970 - 244 pages |
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Page 121
... writing about rogues , vagabonds and old - fashioned Scottish eccentrics . But none of Diana Vernon's most ardent ... writing with all the gusto he had put into his long poems , but with an intoxicating freedom which drove him on and ...
... writing about rogues , vagabonds and old - fashioned Scottish eccentrics . But none of Diana Vernon's most ardent ... writing with all the gusto he had put into his long poems , but with an intoxicating freedom which drove him on and ...
Page 205
... writing . Now he was verging on sixty , and ( though he does not mention it ) must have been aware that the end was in sight . And yet ... and yet he never let his pen fall idle . In the evenings ( sometimes when pain kept him awake all ...
... writing . Now he was verging on sixty , and ( though he does not mention it ) must have been aware that the end was in sight . And yet ... and yet he never let his pen fall idle . In the evenings ( sometimes when pain kept him awake all ...
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... writing and publishing today who have never read a word of Scott's novels . But there was a time , continuing to well after his death , indeed until well into the nineteenth century , when his novels were very widely read here and ...
... writing and publishing today who have never read a word of Scott's novels . But there was a time , continuing to well after his death , indeed until well into the nineteenth century , when his novels were very widely read here and ...
Contents
the City of His Birth II | 11 |
a Dream and a Reality | 25 |
Makin Himself | 33 |
Copyright | |
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