The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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Page vi
... scenes in which their events were laid , co- operated in after - days with family and national pride to decide the bent of the border - minstrel's fancy . His health being partially confirmed , he was recalled home ; and from the end of ...
... scenes in which their events were laid , co- operated in after - days with family and national pride to decide the bent of the border - minstrel's fancy . His health being partially confirmed , he was recalled home ; and from the end of ...
Page xi
... scenes and to more than one of the characters , which afterwards figured in his most successful works ; while in the law - classes of the university , as well as in the juvenile debating societies he formed , or renewed from his school ...
... scenes and to more than one of the characters , which afterwards figured in his most successful works ; while in the law - classes of the university , as well as in the juvenile debating societies he formed , or renewed from his school ...
Page xxviii
... scenes of splendour , Scott , returning to town for his winter duties , and com- pelled to leave behind him his dying wife ( who survived but till the spring ) , took up his residence in lodgings , and there continued that system of ...
... scenes of splendour , Scott , returning to town for his winter duties , and com- pelled to leave behind him his dying wife ( who survived but till the spring ) , took up his residence in lodgings , and there continued that system of ...
Page 20
... scenes which he wished to see . In return , he made me better acquainted than I had hitherto been with the poetic effusions which have since made the Lakes of Westmoreland , and the au- thors by whom they have been sung , so famous ...
... scenes which he wished to see . In return , he made me better acquainted than I had hitherto been with the poetic effusions which have since made the Lakes of Westmoreland , and the au- thors by whom they have been sung , so famous ...
Page 31
... scenes , highly susceptible of poetical ornament . As the description of scenery and manners was more the object of the Author than a combined and regular narrative , the plan of the Ancient Metrical Ro- mance was adopted , which allows ...
... scenes , highly susceptible of poetical ornament . As the description of scenery and manners was more the object of the Author than a combined and regular narrative , the plan of the Ancient Metrical Ro- mance was adopted , which allows ...
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