The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. With memoir and critical dissertation, 1–2 tomaiCassell Petter and Galpin, 1870 |
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... Ancient Geography , " & c . , used to be very popular schoolbooks , and are not yet entirely superseded . Adam was a profound scholar , an amiable man , as enthusi- astic as he was simple - minded and sincere , although his passionate ...
... Ancient Geography , " & c . , used to be very popular schoolbooks , and are not yet entirely superseded . Adam was a profound scholar , an amiable man , as enthusi- astic as he was simple - minded and sincere , although his passionate ...
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... Ancient Poetry , " which left a deep and permanent impression on his mind ; and at the school of one Lancelot Whale , which he attended for some months , he increased considerably his classical knowledge , besides making the ...
... Ancient Poetry , " which left a deep and permanent impression on his mind ; and at the school of one Lancelot Whale , which he attended for some months , he increased considerably his classical knowledge , besides making the ...
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... ancient castle of Glammis , where Scott spent an eerie night , fancying , in spite of the facts of history , that he was in Macbeth's castle , and realising all its sublime and ghastly terrors . But from the date of his rejection , we ...
... ancient castle of Glammis , where Scott spent an eerie night , fancying , in spite of the facts of history , that he was in Macbeth's castle , and realising all its sublime and ghastly terrors . But from the date of his rejection , we ...
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... ancient English Romances and Specimens of Ancient English Poetry , and who was really a man of high accomplishments and fine taste , although his chief title to be remembered is his intimacy with Scott and Canning , wrote of the book in ...
... ancient English Romances and Specimens of Ancient English Poetry , and who was really a man of high accomplishments and fine taste , although his chief title to be remembered is his intimacy with Scott and Canning , wrote of the book in ...
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... " in eighteen volumes , and was accompanied with a masterly memoir . This year , too , he aided Weber , a poor German hack who ultimately went deranged , in his " Ancient Metrical Romances , MEMOIR OF SIR WALTER SCOTT . xxix.
... " in eighteen volumes , and was accompanied with a masterly memoir . This year , too , he aided Weber , a poor German hack who ultimately went deranged , in his " Ancient Metrical Romances , MEMOIR OF SIR WALTER SCOTT . xxix.
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