 I am drawing near to the close of my career ; I am fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle,...  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 323edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1838 - 394 pages
...A few mouths before our distinguished writer quitted this world, he observed to a friend: "It is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle...written nothing which, on my death-bed, I should wish to have blotted." Scott's writings will do immortal honour to his name and country! * Count ttobert... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 532 pages
...perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried ta unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle,...nothing which, on my death-bed, I should wish blotted.' J made no reply ; and while we were yet silent, Don Michele Gaetani joined us, and we walked through... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 384 pages
...fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle...my deathbed I should wish blotted.' I made no reply ; and while we were yet silent, Don Michele Gaetani joined us, and we walked through the vast hall... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 380 pages
...fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle...my deathbed I should wish blotted.' I made no reply ; and while we- were yet silent, Don Michele Gaetani joined us, and we walked through the vast hall... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...the close of my career — I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day — and it is a comfort to me, to think that I have tried to unsettle...nothing which on my death-bed I should wish blotted.' " This dignified self-complacency is fully sustained by the facts — the unaffected purity of his... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 592 pages
...language of the most voluminous writer, if not the greatest genius, of the present century : " It is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principles, and that I have written nothin^ which on my death-ded I should wish blotted." He appears... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle.' " Next day, Friday, May 11, Sir Walter left Rome. — " During his stay there" (adds Mr Cheney) " he... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Education, Humanistic - 1852 - 62 pages
...off the stage. I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort for me to think, that I have tried to unsettle no man's...nothing which, on my death-bed, I should wish blotted." There needs more of that spirit to which Alexander Pope gave brilliant and beautiful utterance, in... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...He added—' I am drawing near to the close of my career ; I am fust shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day;...unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle.' " Next day, Friday, May 11, Sir Walter left Rome.— " During his stay there" (adds Mr Cheney) " he... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...near the close of my career. I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous author of the day, and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle...nothing which, on my death-bed, I should wish blotted. "* In this utterance of dignified self-complacency, he stands justified by the story of his wondrous... | |
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