Famous English Authors of the Nineteenth CenturyCrowell, 1890 - 451 pages |
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... half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm . " ... When Scott was about fifteen he entered his father's law office to study , as he says , " the dry and barren wilderness of forms and conveyances . . . The drudg- ery , indeed , of ...
... half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm . " ... When Scott was about fifteen he entered his father's law office to study , as he says , " the dry and barren wilderness of forms and conveyances . . . The drudg- ery , indeed , of ...
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... half- Burns rewarded the boy " His person , " says Scott , " was strong and robust ; his manners rustic , not clownish ; a sort of dignified plain- ness and simplicity which received part of its effect , per- haps , from one's knowledge ...
... half- Burns rewarded the boy " His person , " says Scott , " was strong and robust ; his manners rustic , not clownish ; a sort of dignified plain- ness and simplicity which received part of its effect , per- haps , from one's knowledge ...
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... . " He wrote in his journal , years afterwards : " What a life mine has been ! -half educated , almost wholly neglected , or left to myself ; stuffing my head with most nonsensical trash , and undervalued by most 20 SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... . " He wrote in his journal , years afterwards : " What a life mine has been ! -half educated , almost wholly neglected , or left to myself ; stuffing my head with most nonsensical trash , and undervalued by most 20 SIR WALTER SCOTT .
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... half a man if he had not full seven hours of utter unconscious- ness . " But there was necessarily an unsatisfied longing in his heart . In July , 1797 , six months after the marriage , Scott met , while making a tour of the English ...
... half a man if he had not full seven hours of utter unconscious- ness . " But there was necessarily an unsatisfied longing in his heart . In July , 1797 , six months after the marriage , Scott met , while making a tour of the English ...
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... them . After much labor this was done in 1802 , in two volumes , the first edition consisting of eight hun- dred copies . Scott was to receive half the profits . His share was £ 78 10s .: a sum probably not SIR WALTER SCOTT . 25.
... them . After much labor this was done in 1802 , in two volumes , the first edition consisting of eight hun- dred copies . Scott was to receive half the profits . His share was £ 78 10s .: a sum probably not SIR WALTER SCOTT . 25.
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Page 413 - And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows? Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge- — That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 431 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 282 - A hand that can be clasp'd no more — Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly through the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.
Page 289 - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die.
Page 389 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 99 - Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it.
Page 125 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 184 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 430 - FEAR death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 177 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...