The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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Page v
... border family of Harden- was sprung , in the fourteenth century from the great house of Buccleuch ; his grandfather be- came a farmer in Roxburghshire ; and his father , Walter Scott , was a writer to the signet in the Scottish capital ...
... border family of Harden- was sprung , in the fourteenth century from the great house of Buccleuch ; his grandfather be- came a farmer in Roxburghshire ; and his father , Walter Scott , was a writer to the signet in the Scottish capital ...
Page vi
... border - history , the poet passed his childhood till about his eighth year , with scarcely any interruption but a year at Bath . At this early age was evinced his warm sympathy with the beauty and grandeur of nature ; and the ballads ...
... border - history , the poet passed his childhood till about his eighth year , with scarcely any interruption but a year at Bath . At this early age was evinced his warm sympathy with the beauty and grandeur of nature ; and the ballads ...
Page xii
... border - districts , which , in a few years , enabled him to amass the materials for his first considerable work . His walks on the boards of the Parliament House , the Westminster Hall of Scotland , if they gained him for a time few ...
... border - districts , which , in a few years , enabled him to amass the materials for his first considerable work . His walks on the boards of the Parliament House , the Westminster Hall of Scotland , if they gained him for a time few ...
Page xiv
... Border Minstrelsy , the first two volumes of which appeared in the begin- ning of the next year , and the edition , consisting of eight hundred copies , was sold off before its close . This work , the earliest which can be said to have ...
... Border Minstrelsy , the first two volumes of which appeared in the begin- ning of the next year , and the edition , consisting of eight hundred copies , was sold off before its close . This work , the earliest which can be said to have ...
Page xv
... Border Min- strelsy , the poet had begun to attempt a higher flight . " In the third volume , " says he , writing to his friend George Ellis in 1803 , " I intend to publish a long poem of my own . It will be a kind of romance of border ...
... Border Min- strelsy , the poet had begun to attempt a higher flight . " In the third volume , " says he , writing to his friend George Ellis in 1803 , " I intend to publish a long poem of my own . It will be a kind of romance of border ...
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