The History of Sir George Ellison, Volume 1University Press of Kentucky, 1766 - Fiction |
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Page xvii
... lived Margaret Riggs , the hearty daughter of Captain Southwell Piggott , who had flirted with Scott at Bath.14 She was mother of the future Lady Miller of Batheaston vase fame.15 Riggs and Ravaud were soon to draw Scott and Lady ...
... lived Margaret Riggs , the hearty daughter of Captain Southwell Piggott , who had flirted with Scott at Bath.14 She was mother of the future Lady Miller of Batheaston vase fame.15 Riggs and Ravaud were soon to draw Scott and Lady ...
Page xx
... lived down and re- pudiated by a new , more respectable generation . The tone of Scott's novels , even more than of Sarah Fielding's , is therefore determinedly and deliberately earnest and worthy in a manner in which she , evidently ...
... lived down and re- pudiated by a new , more respectable generation . The tone of Scott's novels , even more than of Sarah Fielding's , is therefore determinedly and deliberately earnest and worthy in a manner in which she , evidently ...
Page xxix
... . After 1772 Scott is not known to have published again — though it is very likely that some of her works have escaped bibliographers and seems to have lived quietly among her friends , visiting Bath , Introduction / xxix.
... . After 1772 Scott is not known to have published again — though it is very likely that some of her works have escaped bibliographers and seems to have lived quietly among her friends , visiting Bath , Introduction / xxix.
Page xxx
... lived the life that validated the work and pruned the work to validate the piety . Even before her marriage hers was a remarkably self - directed , uncompromising life . Scott demonstrated both what a woman could achieve in her time and ...
... lived the life that validated the work and pruned the work to validate the piety . Even before her marriage hers was a remarkably self - directed , uncompromising life . Scott demonstrated both what a woman could achieve in her time and ...
Page xxxviii
... lived in custodial care from about 1749 until his death in 1800 . 2. From a letter of Elizabeth Montagu at Tunbridge to Sarah Robinson at Bath dated 29 August 1749 , now in the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington , Connecti- cut ...
... lived in custodial care from about 1749 until his death in 1800 . 2. From a letter of Elizabeth Montagu at Tunbridge to Sarah Robinson at Bath dated 29 August 1749 , now in the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington , Connecti- cut ...
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Page xxxviii - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page xx - In narratives where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
Page xix - It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a character, that it is drawn as it appears, for many characters ought never to be drawn ; nor of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and experience, for that observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.