 I have been watching it — it fascinates my eye — it never stops — page after page is finished and thrown on that heap of MS., and still it goes on unwearied — and so it will be till candles are brought in, and God knows how long after that. It...  The Newtonian - Page 146by Newton Abbot College - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 300 pages
...will be till candles are brought in, and God knows how long after that. It is the same every night : I can't stand a sight of it when I am not at my books.'...boys ! ' said our host ; ' I well know what hand it is : 'tis Walter Scott's.' This was the hand that, in the evenings of three summer weeks, wrote the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 pages
...knows how long after that. It is the same every night — I can't stand the sight of it when I 9m notat my books." — " Some stupid, dogged, engrossing clerk,...No boys," said our host, " I well know what hand it is — 'tis Walter Scott's." This was the hand that, in the evenings of .tbree summef weeks, wrote... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 314 pages
...candles are brought in, and God knows how long after that. It is the same every night. I can't stand the sight of it when I am not at my books." " Some stupid,...some other giddy youth in our society. " No, boys," o^u our host, " I well know what hand it is — 'tis Walter Scott's." This was the hand that, in the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 432 pages
...be till candles are brought in, and God knows how long after that. It is the same every night — I can't stand a sight of it when I am not at my books."...No, boys," said our host, " I well know what hand it is — 'tis Walter Scott's." This was the hand that, in the evenings of three summer weeks, wrote the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1845 - 836 pages
...be till candles are brought in, and God knows how long after that. It is the same every night — I can't stand a sight of it when I am not at my books."...No, boys," said our host, " I well know what hand it is — 'tis Walter Scott's." This was the hand that, in the evenings of three summer weeks, wrote the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 pages
...every nifiht — I can'l stand the sight of it when I am not at my books." — 14 Some stupid, dodged, engrossing clerk, probably," exclaimed myself, or some other giddy youth in our society. "No, boys," snid our hosl, "I well know what hand it is— 'tía Walter Scott's." This was the hand that, in the... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pages
...' Some stupid, dogged, engrossing clerk, probably,' exclaimed myself, or some other giddy youth of our society. ' No, boys,' said our host, ' I well know what hand it is — 'tis Sir Walter Scott's.' This was the hand that in the evenings of three summer weeks, wrote... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 pages
...be till candles are brought in, and God knows how long after that. It is the same every night — I can't stand a sight of it when I am not at my books."...No, boys," said our host, " I well know what hand it is — 'tis Walter Scott's." This was the hand that, in the evenings of three summer weeks, wrote the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 432 pages
...how long after that. It is the same every night — I can't stand a sight of it when I am not at. ray books." — " Some stupid, dogged, engrossing clerk,...No, boys," said our host, " I well know what hand it is — 'tis Walter Scott's." This was the hand that, in the evenings of three summer weeks, wrote the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1850 - 868 pages
...when I am not at my books."— " Some ntupid, dogged, engrossing clerk, probably," exclaimed invself, or some other giddy youth in our society. " No, boys," said our host, " I well know what hand it is — 'tis Walter Scott's." This was the hand that, in the evenings of three summer »wk-s, wrote... | |
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