10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRAPEGUT»
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scrapegut in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Characteristics of Men of Genius: Sir Walter Scott. ...
I doubt," said the grave Clerk to the Signet, " I greatly doubt, Sir, you were born for
nae better than a gangrel scrapegut !" Perhaps even the revelation, could it have
been made to him, of his son's future literary glory, would scarcely have ...
2
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
None of your lies, old Scrapegut; for, you know, Peter and Judith are as old as
you. Jerry. Well, well, All's one for that ;--d'ye think that I don't know What suits a-
wedding Voice in Crowd. Silence! Jerry's tuning. 241 Voice. A ballad is worth ...
3
Biographical and Critical Miscellanies
I doubt," said the grave Clerk to the Signet, " I greatly doubt, Sir, you were borne
for nae better than a gangrel scrapegut!" Perhaps even the revelation, could it
have been made to him, of his son's future literary glory, would scarcely have ...
William Hickling Prescott, 1845
4
Characteristics of men of genius, essays selected chiefly ...
I doubt," said the grave Clerk to the Signet, " I greatly doubt, Sir, you were born for
nae better than a gangrel scrapegut !" Perhaps even the revelation, could it have
been made to him, of his son's future literary glory, would scarcely have ...
Immediately the curtain dropped the former rung the prompter's bell
authoritatively, ordered the music to prepare instantly for the farce; and while
poor Scrapegut and his blind partner, Strumwell, were sawing through an
overture, to “ We Fly by ...
6
Sir Walter: a Four-part Study in Biography: (Scott, Hogg, ...
... other vain fellows Wattie had a deplorable habit of strolling away into the
country and forgetting to return home for days together — " Nae better than a
gangrel scrapegut," as Mr. Scott said bitterly. Not that there was any vice in Walter
; it was ...
7
Sir Walter Scott: Landscape and Locality
... precise, economical parent, so contemptuous of literary or military or any but
legal success, we have the father who feared that the son would prove 'but a
gangrel scrapegut'.7 For any reader acquainted with the principal occasions of
Scott's ...
8
The Selected Works of Andrew Lang
imitate the prosaic drawl of the printed broadside ballad, or the feeble
interpolations with which the "gangrel scrapegut,“ or bankelsanger, supplied
gaps in his memory. The modern complete ballad-faker WOULD introduce such
abject verses, ...
9
Critical and Historical Essays
I doubt,” said the grave Clerk to the Signet, “ I greatly doubt, sir, you were borne
for nae better than a gangrel scrapegut ! ” Perhaps even the revelation, could it
have been made to him, of his son's future literary glory, would scarcely have ...
William Hickling Prescott, 1850
All the heroes, then, have been poets, and Osbaldistone's youth may have been
suggested by Scott's memories of his own, and of the father who "feared that he
would never be better than a gangrel scrapegut." Like Henry Morton, in "Old ...
