Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 9R. Cadell, 1848 |
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Page 82 - 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.
Page 27 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin. Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in...
Page 82 - ... been remarkably well kept. He was now before the bar of his country, and might be understood to be on trial before Lord Meadowbank as an offender ; yet he was sure that every impartial jury would bring in a verdict of Not Proven.
Page 86 - Mseviad squabashed at one blow a set of coxcombs, who might have humbugged the world long enough. As a commentator he was capital, could he but have suppressed his rancours against those who had preceded him in the task ; but a misconstruction or misinterpretation, nay, the misplacing of a comma, was in Gifford's eyes a crime worthy of the most severe animadversion.
Page 141 - These were merely a screen, occupied by great-coats, shawls, plaids, and such other articles as usually are found in a country entrance-hall. The spectator returned to the spot from which he had seen the illusion, and endeavoured, with all his power, to recall the image which had been so singularly vivid. But this was beyond his capacity...
Page 8 - I still have over all of them. They may do their fooling with better grace ; but I, like Sir Andrew Aguecheek, do it more natural. They have to read old books and consult antiquarian collections to get their information ; I write because I have long since read such works, and possess, thanks to a strong memory, the information which they have to seek for.
Page 322 - A mirthful man he was; the snows of age Fell, but they did not chill him. Gaiety, Even in life's closing, touched his teeming brain "With such wild visions as the setting sun Raises in front of some hoar glacier, Painting the bleak ice with a thousand hues.
Page 171 - All this warm and respectful solicitude must have had a preciously soothing influence on the mind of Scott, who may be said to have lived upon love. No man cared less about popular admiration and applause ; but for the least chill on the affection of any near and dear to him, he had the sensitiveness of a maiden. I cannot forget, in particular, how his eyes sparkled when he first pointed out to me Peter Mathieson guiding the plough on the haugh. ' Egad,' said he, ' auld Pepe ' (this was the children's...
Page 216 - I was strangely haunted by what I would call the sense of pre-existence — viz. a con* ii e. Forty pages of print, or very nearly. fused idea that nothing that passed was said for the first time — that the same topics had been discussed, and the same persons had stated the same opinions on them.
Page 221 - I do not know anything which relieves the mind so much from the sullens as trifling discussions about antiquarian old womanries. It is like knitting a stocking, diverting the mind without occupying it.