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... writer has been able to interpose , by means of the interest of his own personal story , or by the idiosyncrasy of his ... writing it , and especially the latter portion of it , he had higher objects in view than to manifest either the ...
... writer has been able to interpose , by means of the interest of his own personal story , or by the idiosyncrasy of his ... writing it , and especially the latter portion of it , he had higher objects in view than to manifest either the ...
Pagina 9
... writer as I have been a novel - reader , and that almost the first tale I have ever told in print is this story of my own life . Besides boring all my co - mates with these narratives of robbers , witches , smugglers , genii , and so ...
... writer as I have been a novel - reader , and that almost the first tale I have ever told in print is this story of my own life . Besides boring all my co - mates with these narratives of robbers , witches , smugglers , genii , and so ...
Pagina 12
... writing to a friend in a far off city , to send me Guy Mannering , by the carrier who reached our village each Saturday . The first evening the book did not arrive , and I returned home as full of the bitterness and blackness of ...
... writing to a friend in a far off city , to send me Guy Mannering , by the carrier who reached our village each Saturday . The first evening the book did not arrive , and I returned home as full of the bitterness and blackness of ...
Pagina 18
... writers led to this conse- quence in me , that in admiring them I almost learned to despise his own writings as compositions , while I liked them because they came from him . It was long afterwards ere I saw a merit and a beauty in ...
... writers led to this conse- quence in me , that in admiring them I almost learned to despise his own writings as compositions , while I liked them because they came from him . It was long afterwards ere I saw a merit and a beauty in ...
Pagina 30
... writers of that stamp . He failed in preach- ing , from a coldness of manner partly , and partly because he was lame in one of his limbs . He went abroad , to Nova Scotia , for two or three years , but even there his ill - success ...
... writers of that stamp . He failed in preach- ing , from a coldness of manner partly , and partly because he was lame in one of his limbs . He went abroad , to Nova Scotia , for two or three years , but even there his ill - success ...
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admire afterwards AGNES STRICKLAND amidst ARTHUR HALL autumn beautiful became believe Book of Revelation bright brow Burns called Chalmers Christ Christianity Christopher North church cloth Crown Court Church dark death deep delightful divine dream earth Edinburgh Edinburgh Review Edition Edward Irving eloquence Engravings evil fancy father favourite Fcap feeling felt genius gilt edges Glasgow glen glory Goethe heard heart heaven Highland hills hour Illustrations JOHN CUMMING light literary Loch look man-the mind minister mist morning morocco mountains nature never night numerous once passed poem poet poetic poetry poor Post 8vo preacher preaching racter remember Sabbath scene scenery Scotland seemed seen sermons shadow Shelley sometimes soul spirit star strange stream sublime summer things thought tion valley village voice walk wild Wilson Woodcuts woods words young
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