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... Scott's last work Woodstock ' has met with the most brilliant reception among us and I regret much that the large profits of his American publishers cannot be divided with this inimitable writer . — Mess Carey and Lea purchased the ...
... Scott's last work Woodstock ' has met with the most brilliant reception among us and I regret much that the large profits of his American publishers cannot be divided with this inimitable writer . — Mess Carey and Lea purchased the ...
الصفحة 16
... Scott had recorded in his Diary : " I have the extraor- dinary and gratifying news that ' Woodstock ' is sold for £ 8228 [ about $ 40,300 ] ; all ready money - a matchless sale for less than three months ' work . " Miss Edgeworth saw ...
... Scott had recorded in his Diary : " I have the extraor- dinary and gratifying news that ' Woodstock ' is sold for £ 8228 [ about $ 40,300 ] ; all ready money - a matchless sale for less than three months ' work . " Miss Edgeworth saw ...
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... Scott raor k'is oney ths ' rgh ΠΟ ge- Lid วน -n t S lady , too— but I forget everybody's name now . ' ' Miss Edgeworth .'- ' Ay , Miss Edgeworth ; she's very clever , and best in the little touches , too . I'm sure , in that children's ...
... Scott raor k'is oney ths ' rgh ΠΟ ge- Lid วน -n t S lady , too— but I forget everybody's name now . ' ' Miss Edgeworth .'- ' Ay , Miss Edgeworth ; she's very clever , and best in the little touches , too . I'm sure , in that children's ...
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... SCOTT , Esq . , C. LAMB . 3 Maida Place , Edgware road . Briskets and veiny pieces , as a notable house- wife informs me , are inferior portions of meat . Sir , is perfectly pleasant to mes Your explanation is 24 TALKS ABOUT AUTOGRAPHS.
... SCOTT , Esq . , C. LAMB . 3 Maida Place , Edgware road . Briskets and veiny pieces , as a notable house- wife informs me , are inferior portions of meat . Sir , is perfectly pleasant to mes Your explanation is 24 TALKS ABOUT AUTOGRAPHS.
الصفحة 24
... SCOTT , Esq . , 3 Maida Place , Edgware road . Briskets and veiny pieces , as a notable house- wife informs me , are inferior portions of meat . Sir , and Your explanation is perfectly pleasant to me 24 TALKS ABOUT AUTOGRAPHS.
... SCOTT , Esq . , 3 Maida Place , Edgware road . Briskets and veiny pieces , as a notable house- wife informs me , are inferior portions of meat . Sir , and Your explanation is perfectly pleasant to me 24 TALKS ABOUT AUTOGRAPHS.
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الصفحة 53 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.
الصفحة 92 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
الصفحة 90 - Dunvegan, and Col. Dr. Johnson appeared fond of it, and used often to stand for some time with his ear close to the great drone.
الصفحة 8 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
الصفحة 60 - A dissenter, but a liberal one ; a man of letters and of genius ; master of a fine imagination, or rather not master of it — an imagination which, when he finds himself in the company he loves, and can confide in, runs away with him into such fields of speculation as amuse and enliven every other imagination that has the happiness to be of the party. At other times he has a tender and delicate sort of melancholy in his disposition, not less agreeable in its way.
الصفحة 52 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
الصفحة 104 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
الصفحة 55 - Wonderful to me, as indicating the capricious stupidity of mankind ; never could read a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it.
الصفحة 23 - Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
الصفحة 60 - O'Connell always treated me with friendly attention, but I never shook hands with him or faced his smile without a feeling of insecurity; and as for trusting him on any public question where his vanity or passions might interpose, I should have as soon thought of an alliance with an Ashantee...