Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849645517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Biography yields to no other species of composition, in interest and instruction. More especially is this true, when the subjects of which it treats are the struggles and vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuits of literature. There is a pleasure of the purest kind in observing the gradual development of thought and refinement of expression in one, who, smitten with a love of the good and the beautiful, and desirous to leave something behind him less perishable than his tombstone, has "scorned delights and loved laborious days." No one can read these Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, so long and so anxiously expected, without feeling this pleasure, and without deriving from them that instruction which might not be received from the perusal of less interesting works. In our judgment, not the least important lesson which these memoirs teach, is the advantage, or rather the necessity, which there is of having some profession less precarious than that of literature, upon which the child of genius can fall back for comfort or support in the hour when adversity clouds the lights which hope hung up in the uncertain future. This is volume 6 out of 7 of one of the best and most extensive Scott biographies ever and it covers the years 1825 through 1826.
The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 6: 1825 - 1826
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849645517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Biography yields to no other species of composition, in interest and instruction. More especially is this true, when the subjects of which it treats are the struggles and vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuits of literature. There is a pleasure of the purest kind in observing the gradual development of thought and refinement of expression in one, who, smitten with a love of the good and the beautiful, and desirous to leave something behind him less perishable than his tombstone, has "scorned delights and loved laborious days." No one can read these Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, so long and so anxiously expected, without feeling this pleasure, and without deriving from them that instruction which might not be received from the perusal of less interesting works. In our judgment, not the least important lesson which these memoirs teach, is the advantage, or rather the necessity, which there is of having some profession less precarious than that of literature, upon which the child of genius can fall back for comfort or support in the hour when adversity clouds the lights which hope hung up in the uncertain future. This is volume 6 out of 7 of one of the best and most extensive Scott biographies ever and it covers the years 1825 through 1826.
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849645517
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Biography yields to no other species of composition, in interest and instruction. More especially is this true, when the subjects of which it treats are the struggles and vicissitudes of a life devoted to the pursuits of literature. There is a pleasure of the purest kind in observing the gradual development of thought and refinement of expression in one, who, smitten with a love of the good and the beautiful, and desirous to leave something behind him less perishable than his tombstone, has "scorned delights and loved laborious days." No one can read these Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, so long and so anxiously expected, without feeling this pleasure, and without deriving from them that instruction which might not be received from the perusal of less interesting works. In our judgment, not the least important lesson which these memoirs teach, is the advantage, or rather the necessity, which there is of having some profession less precarious than that of literature, upon which the child of genius can fall back for comfort or support in the hour when adversity clouds the lights which hope hung up in the uncertain future. This is volume 6 out of 7 of one of the best and most extensive Scott biographies ever and it covers the years 1825 through 1826.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart..
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108057020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This celebrated seven-volume biography (1837-8) draws on personal accounts of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), correspondence and autobiographical sketches.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108057020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This celebrated seven-volume biography (1837-8) draws on personal accounts of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), correspondence and autobiographical sketches.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Author: Elizabeth M. Knowles
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198601739
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
This major new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations offers the broadest and most up-to-date coverage of quotations available today. Now with 20,000 quotations arranged by author, this is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary ever. As well as quotations from traditional sources,and with improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature, this foremost dictionary of quotations now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes. For the first time there are special sections for Advertising Slogans, Epitaphs, Film Lines, and Misquotations, whichbring together topical and related quotes, and allow you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject. In this new fifth edition there is enhanced accessibility with a new thematic index to help you find the best quotes on a chosen subject, more in-depth details of the earliest traceable source, an extensive keyword index, and biographical cross-references, so you will easily be able to findquotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when.
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198601739
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
This major new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations offers the broadest and most up-to-date coverage of quotations available today. Now with 20,000 quotations arranged by author, this is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary ever. As well as quotations from traditional sources,and with improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature, this foremost dictionary of quotations now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes. For the first time there are special sections for Advertising Slogans, Epitaphs, Film Lines, and Misquotations, whichbring together topical and related quotes, and allow you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject. In this new fifth edition there is enhanced accessibility with a new thematic index to help you find the best quotes on a chosen subject, more in-depth details of the earliest traceable source, an extensive keyword index, and biographical cross-references, so you will easily be able to findquotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when.
Reliquiae antiquae Scoticae, illustrative of civil and ecclesiastical affairs [ed.] from orig. MSS. [by G.R. Kinloch].
Author: Reliquiae antiquae Scoticae
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Catalogue of the Whole of the Books in the Library
Author: Richmond (England). Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Author: Susan Ratcliffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199567077
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Based on the highly acclaimed seventh edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this new edition includes over 9,000 of the most popular and widely-used quotations old and new, uniquely identified by searching the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, the Oxford English Corpus.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199567077
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Based on the highly acclaimed seventh edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this new edition includes over 9,000 of the most popular and widely-used quotations old and new, uniquely identified by searching the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, the Oxford English Corpus.