 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 420 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...methinks to go abroad, ' And lay my bones far from die Tweed' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 430 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...would let me leave the Court of Session. I would like melhinks to go abroad, ' And lay my bones far from the Tweed.' But I find my eyes moistening, and that... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 790 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the papermaker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog, or turn devotee, and 474 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. intoxicate the brain another way. In prospect of absolute ruin, I wonder... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...turn devotee, and intoxicate the brain another way. 1" prospect of absolute ruin, I wonder if they would let me leave the Court of Session. I would like... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...And lay my bones far from the Tweed.' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for it. It is odd, when I set... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 436 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...And lay my bones far from the Tweed." But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for it. It is odd, when I set... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 436 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...methinks, to go abroad, ' And lay my bones far from the Tu-ced.' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for... | |
 | 1857 - 678 pages
...would have taken them from me, if misfortune had spared them. My poor people, whom I loved so well!" "I would like, methinks, to go abroad, and • lay my bones far from the Tweed.' •' " Poor Mr. Poole, the harper, sent to offer me £500 — probably his all. There is much good... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...And lay my bones far from the Tweed." But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. It is odd, when I set myself to work Jo/jf/alli/, as Dr. Johnson... | |
 | 1868 - 612 pages
...the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars...And lay my bones far from the Tweed," But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. It is odd, when I set myself to work doggedly, as Dr. Johnson... | |
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