 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 348 pages
...brother-in-law, Charles Carpenter, on the 3d March 1803, for the purpose of introducing Leyden, he said — " I have contrived to turn a very slender portion of...publication of the poetical antiquities of the Border, where the old people had preserved many ballads descriptive of the manners of the country during the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 354 pages
...brother-in-law, Charles Carpenter, on the 3d March 1803, for the purpose of introducing Leyden, he said — " I have contrived to turn a very slender portion of...publication of the poetical antiquities of the Border, where the old people had preserved many ballads descriptive of the manners of the country during the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 pages
...brotherin-law, Charles Carpenter, on the 3d March 1803, for the purpose of introducing Leyden, he said — " I have contrived to turn a very slender portion of...publication of the poetical antiquities of the Border, where the old people had preserved many ballads descriptive of the manners of the country during the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...brotherin-law, Charles Carpenter, on the 3d March 1803, for the purpose of introducing Leyden, he said—" I have contrived to turn a very slender portion of...publication of the poetical antiquities of the Border, where the old people had preserved many ballads descriptive of the manners of the country during the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 352 pages
...brother-in-law, Charles Carpenter, on the 3d March 1803, for the purpose of introducing Leyden, he said — " I have contrived to turn a very slender portion of...publication of the poetical antiquities of the Border, where the old people had preserved many ballads descriptive of the manners of the country during the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, Scottish - 1894 - 494 pages
...Government propose to increase the appointments of the sheriffs, which will put an additional £100 into my pocket. Moreover, I have contrived to turn...manners of the country during the wars with England. ... I am seeking a mode of conveyance to transmit to you this precious compilation. You will hear a... | |
 | Charles Sumner Olcott - England - 1913 - 578 pages
...may be judged from a letter to his brother-in-law, Charles Carpenter, in 1803 : — I have continued to turn a very slender portion of literary talents...publication of the poetical antiquities of the Border, where the old people had preserved many ballads descriptive of the manners of the country during the... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - English literature - 1914 - 488 pages
...Lady of the Lake taken together." " I have contrived to turn a very slender portion of literary talent to some account, by a publication of the poetical antiquities of the Border . . . after receiving about £100 profit for the first edition, which my vanity cannot help informing... | |
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I have contrived to turn a very slender portion of literary talents to some account, by a publication of the poetical antiquities of the Border, where the old people had preserved many ballads descriptive of the manners of the country during the wars... 