Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Band 6R. Cadell, 1839 |
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18th Hussars 66 Abbotsford 66 Edinburgh 66 My Dear Abbotsford acquaintance Adam Fergusson affectionate Allan Allan Cunningham amuse appearance attend Bailie beautiful believe Bride of Lammermoor brother Captain Castle Chantrey character Charles Constable Cornet course Darnick daughter Dear Lord Dear Walter death delight Ditton Park Duke of Buccleuch Edinburgh father favour feelings Galashiels give Grace habits hand happy hear heard honour hope horse Ivanhoe J. G. Lockhart John Ballantyne kind labour Lady Laidlaw Laird letter Lockhart London look Lord Montagu Lord Sidmouth Lordship Mamma mind Miss morning mother never night novel occasion pain person pleasure poor Pray present Prince received regiment respect Rutherford scene Scotland seemed Selkirk Sir Walter soon Sophia sort spirit suppose Terry thing thought tion Tom Purdie truly WALTER SCOTT Waverley whole William wish write young
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Seite 184 - MINE be a cot beside the hill, A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Seite 38 - The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Seite 234 - Grey, which carried him nimbly and stoutly, although his feet almost touched the ground as he sat, was the adjutant. But the most picturesque figure was the illustrious inventor of the safety-lamp. He had come for his favourite sport of angling, and had been practising it successfully with Rose, his...
Seite 95 - Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, Or rather like tragedy giving a rout. His fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings, that folly grows proud: And coxcombs, alike in their failings alone, Adopting his portraits, are pleased with their own.
Seite 235 - Burn. Tom Purdie and his subalterns had preceded us by a few hours with all the greyhounds that could be collected at Abbotsford, Darnick, and Melrose ; but the giant Maida had remained as his master's orderly, and now gambolled about Sibyl Grey, barking for mere joy like a spaniel puppy. " The order of march had been all settled, and the sociable was just getting under way, when the Lady Anne broke from the line, screaming with laughter, and exclaimed, ' Papa, papa, I knew you could never think...
Seite 173 - But a glance on the great picture of life will show, that the duties of self-denial, and the sacrifice of passion to principle, are seldom thus remunerated ; and that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces on their own reflections a mor6 adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give or take away.
Seite 233 - It was a clear, bright September morning, with a sharpness in the air that doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing match on Newark Hill.
Seite 38 - I do not think the character of the audience in London is such that one could have the least pleasure in pleasing them. One half come to prosecute their debaucheries so openly that it would degrade a bagnio. Another set to snooze off their beefsteaks and port wine; a third are critics of the fourth column of the newspaper ; fashion, wit, or literature, there is not...
Seite 243 - as long as my arm," beginning with thanks to the Almighty, who had given man dominion over the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field, and...
Seite 182 - A hard and harsh countenance; eyes far sunk under projecting eye-brows, which were grizzled like his hair: a wide mouth, furnished from ear to ear with a range of unimpaired teeth of uncommon whiteness, and a size and breadth which might have become the jaws of an ogre, completed this delightful portrait.