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 Sophia 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 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 63 - Men met each other with erected look — The steps were higher that they took ; Friends to congratulate their friends would haste, • And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.
Сторінка 178 - Loch, and a dinner on the heathy bank. Another, the whole party feasted by Thomas the Rhymer's waterfall in the glen — and the stone on which Maria that day sat was ever afterwards called Edgeworth's stone. A third day we had to go further a-field. He must needs show her, not Newark only, but all the upper scenery of the Yarrow, where " fair hangs the apple frae the rock...
Сторінка 219 - were, in appearance at least, of carved oak, relieved by coats-of-arms duly blazoned at the intersections of beams, and resting on cornices, to the eye, of the same material, but composed of casts in plaster of Paris, after the foliage, the flowers, the grotesque monsters and dwarfs, and sometimes the beautiful heads of nuns and confessors, on which he had doated from infancy among the cloisters of Melrose Abbey.
Сторінка 314 - ... 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 17 - ... more or less directly to the immediate personal eclat or personal enjoyment of the party — that young men lose sight of real power and real importance, the foundation of which must be laid, even selfishly considered, in contributing to the general welfare, — like those who have thrown their bread on the waters, expecting, and surely receiving, after many days, its return in gratitude, attachment, and support of every kind. The memory of the most splendid entertainment passes away with the...
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 382 - I'll make it as impossible that there should not be a good library in every decent house in Britain as that the shepherd's ingle-nook should want the said poke. Ay, and what's that ? " he continued, warming and puffing ; " why should the ingle-nook itself want a shelf for the novels?" — "I see .your drift, my man...
Сторінка 135 - I am under the necessity of attending officially, sit down in a few days, and, hei mihi! do not arise for vacation until July. But I hope to be in town next spring ; and certainly I have one strong additional reason for a London journey, furnished by the pleasure of meeting the Roxburghe Club. Make my most respectful compliments to the members at their next merrymeeting ; and express, in the warmest manner, my * King Lear, Act III.
Сторінка 178 - Never did I see a brighter day at Abbotsford than that on which Miss Edgeworth first arrived there — never can I forget her look and accent when she was received by him at his archway, and exclaimed, ' Everything about you is exactly what one ought to have had wit enough to dream...