The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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Page v
... Scottish capital . His mother , Anne Rutherford , was the daughter of one of the medical professors in the university of Edinburgh . Neither Scott's poetical turn nor his extraor- dinary powers of memory seem to have been inherited from ...
... Scottish capital . His mother , Anne Rutherford , was the daughter of one of the medical professors in the university of Edinburgh . Neither Scott's poetical turn nor his extraor- dinary powers of memory seem to have been inherited from ...
Page vii
... Scottish history , though without being able to shake those opinions which the boy had already taken up as an inheritance from his Jac- obite ancestors . At every interval also which could be stolen from the watchfulness of his elders ...
... Scottish history , though without being able to shake those opinions which the boy had already taken up as an inheritance from his Jac- obite ancestors . At every interval also which could be stolen from the watchfulness of his elders ...
Page viii
... Scottish ballads , which he had already begun to collect from recitation , and to copy in little volumes , several of which are still preserved . " To this period , also , " he tells us , " I can trace distinctly the awaking of that ...
... Scottish ballads , which he had already begun to collect from recitation , and to copy in little volumes , several of which are still preserved . " To this period , also , " he tells us , " I can trace distinctly the awaking of that ...
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... Scottish land- holder ; and , while neither he nor his friends could yet have foreseen the immensity of those resources which his genius was afterwards to place at his disposal for the attainment of his favourite wish , two plans ...
... Scottish land- holder ; and , while neither he nor his friends could yet have foreseen the immensity of those resources which his genius was afterwards to place at his disposal for the attainment of his favourite wish , two plans ...
Page xxi
... of his own earlier works ; and his wish to check the enterprising head of that house in his attempts to obtain a monopoly of Scottish literature , is openly avowed , in Scott's correspond- ence MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR . xxi.
... of his own earlier works ; and his wish to check the enterprising head of that house in his attempts to obtain a monopoly of Scottish literature , is openly avowed , in Scott's correspond- ence MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR . xxi.
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