 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
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 468 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... | |
 | James L. Gordon - Conduct of life - 1911 - 406 pages
...words of Sir Walter Scott: "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 principles, and that I have written nothing which, on my death-bed, I should wish blotted out." These... | |
 | William Winter - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 362 pages
...perhaps, the most voluminous author of the day," he said, toward the close of his life; "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." When at... | |
 | Walter Scott - Durward, Quentin (Fictitious character) - 1913 - 586 pages
...of my career. I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous author of my 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 death bed I should wish blotted." He was laid... | |
 | William Winter - 1914 - 478 pages
...Sir Walter Scott, toward the close of his life, "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 principles, and that I have written nothing which, on my death-bed, I should wish blotted." Longfellow... | |
 | Silas Arthur Cook - Christian sociology - 1915 - 360 pages
...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." 5. The Goal of the Soul. O my countrymen, the way of honesty, though sometimes it be a path of thorns,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1915 - 544 pages
...literature — the magnificent romances of Scott, who rejoiced at the close of his life that he had ' tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle, and had written nothing which on his death-bed he should wish blotted ' 2 ; the delightfully humorous and... | |
 | Frank Woodyer Stokoe - Literature, Comparative - 1926 - 232 pages
...8 Lockhart, Memoirs, vol. v, pp. 414-415. Scott's answer, as reported by Mr Cheney, was : " It is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle...nothing which on my death-bed I should wish blotted." A similar source of consolation is open, no doubt, to many writers: for instance, to the anonymous... | |
 | Jerome Mitchell - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 284 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." 28 STYLE AND STRUCTURE IN THE WAVE RLE Y NOVELS SCOTT's debt to Chaucer and medieval romance extends... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1873 - 540 pages
...life, he said of himself: " 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." Let us all thank God for that record, and still more for the fact which it so justly embodies. It were... | |
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