 be present, will intrude its horrors on my mind, will whisper that my brother, as volatile as ardent, would have divided his energies amid a hundred objects. It was I who taught him to concentrate them and to gage all on this dreadful and desperate cast...  Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since - Page 298by Sir Walter Scott - 1892Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 780 pages
...it not so? but yet it haunts me like a phantom; I know it is unsubstantial and vain; but it //•/// be present; will intrude its horrors on my mind; will...and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, ' He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword;' that I had but... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1852 - 606 pages
...it is unsubstantial and vain ; but it will be present— will intrude its horrors on my mind—will whisper that my brother, as volatile as ardent, would...and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, ' He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword ;' that I had but... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 328 pages
...it not so ? but yet it haunts me like a phantom; I know it is unsubstantial and vain ; but it wilt be present; will intrude its horrors on my mind; will...desperate cast. Oh, that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, ' He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword;' that I had but... | |
 | English drama - 1872 - 450 pages
...me like a phantom— it is ever present—ever intrudes its horrors on my mind—ever •whispers, that my brother, as volatile as ardent, would have divided his energies among a hundred different objects. It was I who taught him to concentrate them, and to gage all on... | |
 | ANDREW LANG - 1892 - 454 pages
...is it not so ? But yet it haunts me like a phantom ; I know it is unsubstantial and vain, but it mil be present, will intrude its horrors on my mind, will...and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, ' He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword;' that I had but... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1912 - 666 pages
...know it is unsubstantial and vain ; but it will be present^ will intrude its horrors on my mind—will whisper that my brother, as volatile as ardent, would...and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, " He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword " ; that I had but... | |
 | Anna K. Nardo - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 292 pages
...listen to it—that the strength of mind on which Flora prided herself has murdered her brother! ... [M]y brother, as volatile as ardent, would have divided...and to gage all on this dreadful and desperate cast. ... I spurred his fiery temper, and half of his ruin at least lies with his sister!" (Waverley, 2:278).... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2006 - 486 pages
...it not so? - but yet it haunts me like a phantom: I know it is unsubstantial and vain; but it will be present - will intrude its horrors on my mind -...and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, "He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword"; that I had but... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 2006 - 678 pages
...it not so? - but yet it haunts me like a phantom: I know it is unsubstantial and vain; but it will be present - will intrude its horrors on my mind -...and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, "He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword"; that I had but... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 2006 - 410 pages
...it not so? - but yet it haunts me like a phantom: I know it is unsubstantial and vain; but it will be present - will intrude its horrors on my mind -...and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, "He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword"; that I had but... | |
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