The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 6: 1825 - 1826 by John Gibson Lockhart

Author:John Gibson Lockhart [Unbekannt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Klassiker
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2014-08-29T00:00:00+00:00

* To hain any thing is, Anglice, to deal very carefully, penuriously about it—tyne, to lose. Scott often used to say, “hain a pen and tyne a pen;” which is nearer the proverb alluded to.

† The late Sir William Forbes, Bart., succeeded his father (the biographer of Beattie) as chief of the head private banking-house in Edinburgh. Scott’s amiable friend died 24th October, 1828.

‡ John Adam, Esq. died on shipboard, on his passage homewards from Calcutta, 4th June, 1825.

“January 21.—Susannah in Tristram Shandy thinks death is best met in bed. I am sure trouble and vexation are not. The watches of the night press wearily when disturbed by fruitless regrets and disagreeable anticipations. But let it pass.

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