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The Abbot
Author: Walter ScottThe Abbot
Author: Walter ScottThe Abbot
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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The Abbott
Author: Walter ScottThe Abbot
Author: Walter ScottThe Monastery ; The Abbot
Author: Walter ScottThe Abbot; Being a Sequel to The Monastery, by Sir Walter Scott, Bart..
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Mary Stuart
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The Abbot
Author: Walter ScottPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267844654
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Excerpt from The Abbot: Being the Sequel to the Monastery But this is a chance incident to every literary attempt, and by which men of a sanguine temper are little moved. I may illustrate what I mean by the feelings of most men in travelling. If we have found any stage particularly tedious or in an especial degree interesting, particularly short or much longer than we expected, our imaginations are so apt to exag gerate the original impression that, on repeating the journey, we usually find that we have considerably overrated the pre dominating quality, and the road appears to be duller or more pleasant, shorter or more tedious, than what we expected, and, consequently, than what is the actual case. It requires a third or fourth journey to enable us to form an accurate judgment of its beauty, its length, or its other attributes. In the same manner, the public, judging of a new work, which it receives perhaps with little expectation, if surprised into applause, becomes very often ecstatic, gives a great deal more approbation than is due, and elevates the child of its immediate favour to a rank which, as it affects the author, it is equally difficult to keep and painful to lose. If, on this occasion, the author trembles at the height to which he is raised, and becomes afraid of the shadow of his own renown, he may indeed retire from the lottery with the prize which he has drawn, but, in future ages, his honour will be only in proportion to his labours. If, on the contrary, he rushes again into the lists, he is sure to be judged with severity proportioned to the former favour of the public. If he be daunted by a bad reception on this second occasion, he may again become a stranger to the arena. If, on the contrary, he can keep his ground, and stand the shuttle cock's fate, of being struck up and down, he will probably, at length, hold with some certainty the level in public opinion which he may be found to deserve and he may perhaps boast of arresting the general attention, in the same manner as the Bachelor Samson Carrasco of fixing the weathercock La Giralda of Seville for weeks, months, or years, that is, for as long as the wind shall uniformly blow from one quarter. To this degree of popularity the Author had the hardihood to aspire, while, in order to attain it, he assumed the daring resolution to keep himself in the View of the public by frequent appearances before them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Abbot
Author: Sir Walter ScottPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781012659004
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The Abbott
Author: Walter ScottPublisher:
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Category : Monastic and religious life
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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