Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, Том 7A. and C. Black, 1882 |
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Abbotsford Adam Fergusson admirable affectionate attainders Author of Waverley Baillie ballad Ballantyne Bannatyne Club beautiful believe called Captain Castle Street character clans Club Constable course Dear Terry delighted dinner doubt drawing-room Duke Edgeworthstown Edinburgh excellent favour feelings fortune Galashiels give happy head heard Highland honour hope J. G. Lockhart Jane Joanna Baillie kind King King's labour Lady letter literary London look Lord Montagu Lordship Majesty manner matter Melrose Melrose Abbey mind Miss Edgeworth morning never occasion party perhaps person Peveril pleasure poet poor present Quentin Durward romance Ronan's Roxburghe Club royal scene Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen side Sir Walter Scott soon sort St Ronan's story sure taste thing tion told Tom Purdie trees Waverley Novels whole window wish wood write young
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Сторінка 398 - Of all the palaces so fair, Built for the royal dwelling In Scotland, far beyond compare Linlithgow is excelling; And in its park in jovial June, How sweet the merry linnet's tune, How blithe the blackbird's lay ! The...
Сторінка 172 - Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
Сторінка 314 - I have been writing a ballad, my dear. I am oppressing my heroine with many misfortunes. I have already sent her Jamie to sea — and broken her father's arm — and made her mother fall sick — and given her auld Robin Gray for her lover; but I wish to load her with a fifth sorrow within the four lines, poor thing. Help me to one." "Steal the cow, sister Anne,
Сторінка 129 - he soon turned his needle into a sword, and his thimble into a shield," and raised himself to knighthood, in the service of Edward III. After accumulating great wealth and fame in the predatory wars of Italy, he died in 1393, at Florence, where his funeral was celebrated with magnificence amidst the general lamentations of the people See " The Honourable Prentice, or the Life and Death of Sir John ffawftteood,
Сторінка 314 - I have been writing a ballad, my dear ; I am oppressing my heroine with many misfortunes. I have already sent her Jamie to sea, and broken her father's arm, and made her mother fall sick, and given her Auld Robin Gray for her lover ; but I wish to load her with a fifth sorrow within the four lines, poor thing ! Help me to one.'—* Steal the cow, sister Anne,
Сторінка 288 - ... even painting, or indeed any other kind of pursuit, this has no end, and is never interrupted ; but goes on from day to day, and from year to year, with a perpetually augmenting interest. Farming I hate. What have I to do with fattening and killing beasts, or raising corn, only to cut it down, and to wrangle with farmers about prices, and to be constantly at the mercy of the seasons? There can be no such disappointments or annoyances in planting trees.
Сторінка 178 - The weather was beautiful, and the edifice, and its appurtenances, were all but complete; and day after day, so long as she could remain, her host had always some new plan of gaiety. One day there was fishing on the Cauldshields' Loch, and a dinner on the heathy bank.
Сторінка 4 - ... and making her personal acquaintance. I expect her to be just what you describe, a being totally void of affectation, and who, like one other lady of my acquaintance, carries her literary reputation as freely and easily as the milk-maid in my country does the leglen, which she carries on her head, and walks as gracefully with it as a duchess. Some of the fair sex, and some of the foul sex, too, carry their renown in London fashion on a yoke and a pair of pitchers. The consequence is, that besides...
Сторінка 315 - ... gratification of seeing a reward of twenty guineas offered in the newspapers to the person who should ascertain the point past a doubt, and the still more flattering circumstance of a visit from Mr. Jerningham, Secretary to the Antiquarian Society, who endeavoured to entrap the truth from me in a manner I took amiss. Had he asked me the question obligingly, I should have told him the fact distinctly and confidentially. The annoyance, however, of this important ambassador from the antiquaries...
Сторінка 53 - To this record let me add, that, on receiving the poet on the quarterdeck, his Majesty called for a bottle of Highland whisky, and having drunk his health in this national liquor, desired a glass to be filled for him. Sir Walter, after draining his own bumper, made a request that the King would condescend to bestow on him the glass out of which his Majesty had just drunk his health ; and this being granted, the precious vessel was immediately wrapped...