Acme Library of Standard Biography: Minto, W. DefoeAmerican Book Exchange, 1880 |
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Strana 161
... Lockhart's Life of Scott or Mr. Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay . Yet no later biographer has been quite as fortunate in a subject ; and Boswell remains as not only the first , but the best of his class . One special merit implies ...
... Lockhart's Life of Scott or Mr. Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay . Yet no later biographer has been quite as fortunate in a subject ; and Boswell remains as not only the first , but the best of his class . One special merit implies ...
Strana 311
... Lockhart's statements by reading those of the representatives of the Ballantyne brothers ; but with this ex- ception , Sir Walter's own works and Lockhart's life of him are the great authorities concerning his character and his story ...
... Lockhart's statements by reading those of the representatives of the Ballantyne brothers ; but with this ex- ception , Sir Walter's own works and Lockhart's life of him are the great authorities concerning his character and his story ...
Strana 314
... Lockhart , as he glanced at the likeness of his own staid and prudent father , " Yet it was a wonder , too , for I have a thread of the attorney in me , " which was doubtless the case ; nor was that thread the least of his inheri ...
... Lockhart , as he glanced at the likeness of his own staid and prudent father , " Yet it was a wonder , too , for I have a thread of the attorney in me , " which was doubtless the case ; nor was that thread the least of his inheri ...
Strana 316
... Lockhart , which will serve better than anything I can remember to bring the father and mother of Scott vividly before the ... Lockhart's Life of Scott , x . 241 . on a piece of business , persons wholly unworthy to 316 ACME BIOGRAPHY .
... Lockhart , which will serve better than anything I can remember to bring the father and mother of Scott vividly before the ... Lockhart's Life of Scott , x . 241 . on a piece of business , persons wholly unworthy to 316 ACME BIOGRAPHY .
Strana 327
... Lockhart's Life of Scott , i 206 . + Lockhart's Life of Scott , ix . 221 , not acquired the tact to impress an ordinary assembly . SIR WALTER SCOTT . 327.
... Lockhart's Life of Scott , i 206 . + Lockhart's Life of Scott , ix . 221 , not acquired the tact to impress an ordinary assembly . SIR WALTER SCOTT . 327.
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