 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...honest eider consoled himself on having established with Mistress Ann Page, There was 'gnat lat'e Mwcen us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on riker acquaintance." Ill fact, at the point where we left the narrative, Sco'.t, ready enriched by... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 pages
...which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Ann Page, There was ua gnat love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further aequaintanfe." In fact, at the point where we left the narrative, Scott, already enriched by... | |
 | John Blaikie - Scotland - 1868 - 336 pages
...footing which honest Slender consoled himself upon having established with Mistress Ann Page. " There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance." Those who knew Scott best, confidently predicted for him a career of eminence;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...you will insert this in \c>ur next paper, and add to it some exhortations of your own, to prft groat love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance." In 1805 he published The Lay of the Last Minstrel, which was composed at the rate of a canto per week,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Authors, Scottish - 1871 - 118 pages
...footing which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Ann Page, There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased heaven to decrease it on further acquaintance." In fact, at the point where we left the narrative, Scott, already enriched by... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 pages
...having established with Mistress Anne Page ; " There was no great lore between us at the beginning, ana it pleased Heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance."...toil by day, the lamp by night," renouncing all the Delilaha of my imagination, or bid adieu to the profession of the law, and hold another course. I confess... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1873 - 614 pages
...honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Ann Page, There was no great lave between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on furtker acquaintance." In fact, at the point where we left the narrative, Scott, already enriched by... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1874 - 242 pages
...established with Mistress Anne Page ; " There was no great love between us at the beginning, and il pleased Heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance."...toil by day, the lamp by night," renouncing all the Delilahs of my imagination, or bid adieu to the profession of the law and hold another course* I confess... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 378 pages
...on which honest Slender consoled himself with having established with Mistress Anne Page; "There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it...farther acquaintance." I became sensible that the time Tvas come when I must either buckle myself resolutely to the "tofl by day, the lamp by night," renouncing... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 350 pages
...footing which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Anne Page : ' There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it...pleased heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance.' " — Introduction tc the Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1830. district of his favourite Border — those... | |
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I, therefore, came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Anne Page ; " There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance."... 
