 I am myself, like Hamlet, indifferent honest ; but I suppose the blood of the old cattledrivers of Teviotdale continues to stir in my veins. " I shall not own Waverley ; my chief reason is that it would prevent me of the pleasure of writing again.  Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since - Página viipor Sir Walter Scott - 1906 - 496 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 314 páginas
...tedium of his late Transatlantic voyage. So you see the unknown infant is like to come to preferment. In truth, I am not sure it would be considered quite...Session, to write novels. Judges being monks, Clerks are^a sort of lay brethren, from whom some solemnity of walk and conduct may be expected. So, whatever... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 páginas
...late Transatlantic voyage. So you see the unknown infant is like to come to preferment• in truth, 1 am not sure it would be considered quite decorous for me, as a Clerk of Session, to write navels. Judges being monks, Clerks arc a sort of lay bretbren, from whom some solemnity of walk and... | |
 | 1837 - 656 páginas
...of the old cattledrivers of Teviotdale continues to stir in my veins. " ' I shall not own Waverley ; my chief reason is, that it would prevent me of the pleasure of writing again. David Hume, nephew of the historian, says the author must be of a Jacobite family and predilections,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 608 páginas
...old cattle-drivers of Tevioldale continues to stir in my veins. " I shall nut own Waverlev ; my ehief reason is, that it would prevent me of the pleasure of writing again. David Hume, nephew of the historian, says the author must be of a Jacobite family and predilections,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 428 páginas
...of the old cattledrivers of Teviotdale continues to stir in my veins. " I shall not own Waverley ; my chief reason is, that it would prevent me of the pleasure of writing again. David Hume, nephew of the historian, says the author must be of a Jacobite family and predilections,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 432 páginas
...of the old cattledrivers of Teviotdale continues to stir in my veins. " I shall not own Waverley ; my chief reason is, that it would prevent me of the pleasure of writing again. David Hume, nephew of the historian, says the author must be of a Jacobite family and predilections,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 162 páginas
...began to be more than suspected to be the author of Waverley ; and his own letter to Morritt adds : " I am not sure it would be considered quite decorous...sort of lay brethren, from whom- some solemnity of waik and conduct may be expected. So, whatever I may do of this kmd, ' I shall whistle it down the... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 páginas
...hero is a sneaking piece of imbecility ; " and positively repeats, " I shall not own ' Waverley : ' my chief reason is, that it would prevent me of the pleasure of writing again." In 1829, in the general preface to his works, he said, " My original motive for publishing the work anonymously... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 páginas
...If we refer to page 124 we shall there find him writing to Mr. Morrit, " I shall not own Waverley ; my chief reason is, that it would prevent me of the...sure it would be considered quite decorous for me as Clerk of Session to write novels. Judges being monks, clerks are a sort of lay brethren from whom some... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 páginas
...anonymously; in fact, the author was half ashamed of it. " In truth," said he, in writing to a friend, " I am not sure it would be considered quite decorous for me, as a clerk of Session, to write novels." However, the success was far too gratifying not to induce the author to renew the attempt, and no fewer... | |
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