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... thought it lawful to keep a journal of what passes in private society ; so that no one need expect from the sequel of this narrative any detailed record of Scott's familiar talk . " - Lockhart's Life , vol . iv . p . 150 . See p . 413 ...
... thought it lawful to keep a journal of what passes in private society ; so that no one need expect from the sequel of this narrative any detailed record of Scott's familiar talk . " - Lockhart's Life , vol . iv . p . 150 . See p . 413 ...
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... thought and labour , that would have overwhelmed ordinary men , † were borne by him as the light amusement of a summer day ; and we see him when the bow he alone could bend was broken , and its now useless strings were trailing on the ...
... thought and labour , that would have overwhelmed ordinary men , † were borne by him as the light amusement of a summer day ; and we see him when the bow he alone could bend was broken , and its now useless strings were trailing on the ...
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... thought ; to re- flect the fertility and humour of the bright and overflowing spirit , or to pour forth the despairing voice of nature crying from the tomb . Scott's was emphatically a picturesque imagination , and what is called an ...
... thought ; to re- flect the fertility and humour of the bright and overflowing spirit , or to pour forth the despairing voice of nature crying from the tomb . Scott's was emphatically a picturesque imagination , and what is called an ...
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... thought it almost a sin to open a profane play or poem , and my mother , besides that she might be in some degree tra- melled by the religious scruples which he suggested , had no longer the opportunity to hear me read poetry , as ...
... thought it almost a sin to open a profane play or poem , and my mother , besides that she might be in some degree tra- melled by the religious scruples which he suggested , had no longer the opportunity to hear me read poetry , as ...
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... thought too much akin to the Greek ; but the language of Rome he endeavoured to preserve in his memory , by an occasional perusal of Matthew Paris and Buchanan . Professor Dalzell prophesied that dunce he was , and dunce he was to ...
... thought too much akin to the Greek ; but the language of Rome he endeavoured to preserve in his memory , by an occasional perusal of Matthew Paris and Buchanan . Professor Dalzell prophesied that dunce he was , and dunce he was to ...
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