 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
 | Collects - 1872 - 156 pages
...shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the da}• : 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." See Lockhart's Xcmairt of Sir W. Scott, vol. vii. p. 378. Ed. 1838. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.... | |
 | John William Kirton - Bible - 1873 - 244 pages
...with these remarks : he said, "I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous author of my 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 principles, and that I have written nothing which on my death-bed I should wish blotted out." His last... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 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...nothing which on my deathbed I should wish blotted.' " The following day Sir Walter purposed setting out on his northern journey. It was Friday. I was anxious... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1873 - 1014 pages
...voluminous author of the day ; and it ts a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle DO man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle, and that...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... | |
 | James Davies (of Southport.) - 1873 - 228 pages
...of my career. 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 faith, to corrupt no man's principles, and that I have written nothing which, on my deathbed, I should wish blotted," — was... | |
 | Hildebrand - Literature - 1876 - 380 pages
...fast shuffling of the stage. I have been perhaps the most volumineus 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." aa bl. 333. Dit inschrift, waarvan het mij niet verwonderen zou dat het door Southey was ingegeven... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1885 - 524 pages
...said with moistened eyes, ' 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.' These words, so affecting in their humble simplicity, do but give the negative side of the matter.... | |
 | Religion - 1892 - 550 pages
...shuffling off the stage ; I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous writer 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.' Not that he succeeded in satisfying the Evangelicals. They always regarded the Waverley Novels with... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1876 - 408 pages
...worthy of him. " I have been," he said, " perhaps the most voluminous author of my 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 principles, and that I have written nothing which on my deathbed I should wish blotted out." His last... | |
 | Edward Churton - 1876 - 326 pages
...with a reflection, surely not founded in self-conceit, that in all his voluminous writings " he had tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle, and had written nothing which on his deathbed he should wish to have blotted out." * This Preface was written... | |
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