 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
 | 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... | |
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