The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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Page vi
... 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 and legends , recited to ...
... 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 and legends , recited to ...
Page viii
... poetry , was continued , with increasing avidity , during a long visit which , in his twelfth year , he paid to his father's sister , at the village of Kelso , where the young student read for the first time , with en- tranced ...
... poetry , was continued , with increasing avidity , during a long visit which , in his twelfth year , he paid to his father's sister , at the village of Kelso , where the young student read for the first time , with en- tranced ...
Page ix
... poet than Ho- mer , he provoked Dr. Dalziel to pronounce of him " that dunce he was , and dunce he would remain . " His knowledge of Latin , also , does not appear to have been more than superficial , although we are informed that for ...
... poet than Ho- mer , he provoked Dr. Dalziel to pronounce of him " that dunce he was , and dunce he would remain . " His knowledge of Latin , also , does not appear to have been more than superficial , although we are informed that for ...
Page x
... poet of chivalry was thus already fixed . His health likewise became permanently robust , and the lameness in one leg , which was the sole remnant of his early complaints , was through life no obstacle to his habits of active bodily ...
... poet of chivalry was thus already fixed . His health likewise became permanently robust , and the lameness in one leg , which was the sole remnant of his early complaints , was through life no obstacle to his habits of active bodily ...
Page xi
... poet's professional industry during those years of servi- tude , we possess conflicting representations ; but many circumstances in his habits , many peculiari- ties in the ... poetry had now become more ambitious ; MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR . xi.
... poet's professional industry during those years of servi- tude , we possess conflicting representations ; but many circumstances in his habits , many peculiari- ties in the ... poetry had now become more ambitious ; MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR . xi.
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