Sir Walter Scott: the Story of His LifeJ. R. Osgood, 1871 - Počet stran: 488 During his reunion with Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver tells of his quest to recover the remaining treasure from Treasure Island. |
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... followed it , had themselves borne arms in the contest . As for the remoter past , old songs were chanted , old legends told , as was the custom in country - houses at that time , which fixed themselves in the eager memory of the ...
... followed it , had themselves borne arms in the contest . As for the remoter past , old songs were chanted , old legends told , as was the custom in country - houses at that time , which fixed themselves in the eager memory of the ...
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... followed attempts at poetical ver- sions from Horace and Virgil . One of these little pieces , carefully preserved by his mother , and affec- tionately indorsed , " My Walter's first lines , 1812 , " which had been considered the second ...
... followed attempts at poetical ver- sions from Horace and Virgil . One of these little pieces , carefully preserved by his mother , and affec- tionately indorsed , " My Walter's first lines , 1812 , " which had been considered the second ...
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... much employed . " Satiety followed ; and the lad then began to seek histories , memoirs , voyages , travels , and the like , nearly as wonderful as those which - ÆT . 15. ] DESULTORY READING . 45 were the 44 [ 1786 SIR WALTER SCOTT ,
... much employed . " Satiety followed ; and the lad then began to seek histories , memoirs , voyages , travels , and the like , nearly as wonderful as those which - ÆT . 15. ] DESULTORY READING . 45 were the 44 [ 1786 SIR WALTER SCOTT ,
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... followed by a tem- porary residence in the country , where he would . have been very lonely but for the amusement which he derived from a good but old - fashioned library . In the opening chapters of " Waverley " and " Rob Roy , ' he ...
... followed by a tem- porary residence in the country , where he would . have been very lonely but for the amusement which he derived from a good but old - fashioned library . In the opening chapters of " Waverley " and " Rob Roy , ' he ...
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... followed ; and Burns fixed a look of half - serious interest on the youth , while he said , ' You'll be a man yet , sir . ' " These were the look and the word which Scott had pleasure in remembering in his own decline of years . The ...
... followed ; and Burns fixed a look of half - serious interest on the youth , while he said , ' You'll be a man yet , sir . ' " These were the look and the word which Scott had pleasure in remembering in his own decline of years . The ...
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