Won.
Unlucky.
Spend.
Well.
Inclining, directing.
Who.
Where.
Why.
A while ago.
Sometimes.
Which.
A few.
Whining.
Will not.
Whisk, brandish.
Gate.
Endnotes
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Abbotsford Manuscripts. ↩
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See Scott’s reply, with the anecdote about Mrs. Aphra Behn’s novels. —Lockhart, VI 406 (edition of 1839) ↩
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A history of Scott’s Manuscripts, with good facsimiles, will be found in the Catalogue of the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh, . ↩
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While speaking of correction, it may be noted that Scott, in his “Advertisement” prefixed to the issue of , speaks of changes made in that collected edition. In Waverley these emendations are very rare, and are unimportant. A few callidae juncturae are added, a very few lines are deleted. The postscript of the first edition did not contain the anecdote about the hiding-place of the manuscript among the fishing tackle. The first line of Flora Macdonald’s battle-song (chapter XXII) originally ran, “Mist darkens the mountain, night darkens the vale,” in place of “There is mist on the mountain and mist on the vale.” For the rest, as Scott says, “where the tree falls it must lie.” ↩
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Abbotsford Manuscripts. Hogg averred that nobody either read or wrote poetry after Sir Walter took to prose. ↩
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Scott reviewed Frankenstein in . Mr. Shelley had sent it with a brief note, in which he said that it was the work of a friend, and that he had only seen it through the press. Sir Walter passed the book on to Mr. Morritt, who, in reply, gave Scott a brief and not very accurate history of Shelley. Sir Walter then wrote a most favourable review of Frankenstein in Blackwood’s Magazine, observing that it was attributed to Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelley, a son-in-law of Mr. Godwin. Mrs. Shelley presently wrote thanking him for the review, and assuring him that it was her own work. Scott had apparently taken Shelley’s disclaimer as an innocent evasion; it was an age of literary superscheries. —Abbotsford Manuscripts ↩
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Journal, March 14, . ↩
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Mr. R. P. Gillies says that in “Waverley, in three volumes, had been announced by John Ballantyne, and a sheet or two set in types.” —Recollections of Sir Walter Scott, p. 204 ↩
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Lockhart, IV, 172. ↩
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In a letter to Lady Abercorn, written when he was busy with the Lady of the Lake, Scott complained that he could not draw a lover, in spite of his own experience. ↩
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“The ‘Quarterly Review,’ in .” This notice was written by Scott, in conjunction with his friend Mr. Willian Erskine. As his own correspondence and that of Mr. Murray, the publisher, show, Scott offered to criticise his own novels, as a proof that he had not written them. See Introduction to Old Mortality. The review is published in Scott’s Miscellaneous Prose Works. —Editor ↩
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A homely metrical narrative of the events of the period, which contains some striking particulars, and is still a great favourite with the lower classes, gives a very correct statement of the behaviour of the mountaineers respecting this same military license; and, as the verses are little known, and contain some good sense, we venture to insert them. ↩
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Alas! that attire, respectable and gentlemanlike in , or thereabouts, is now as antiquated as the Author of Waverley has himself become since that period! The reader of fashion will please to fill up the costume with an embroidered waistcoat of purple velvet or silk, and a coat of whatever colour he pleases. ↩
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Where the Chevalier St. George, or, as he was termed, the Old Pretender, held his exiled court, as his situation compelled him to shift his place of residence. ↩
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Long the oracle of the country gentlemen of the high Tory party. The ancient Newsletter was written in manuscript and copied by clerks, who addressed the copies to the subscribers. The politician by whom they were compiled picked up his intelligence at coffeehouses, and often pleaded for an additional gratuity in consideration of the extra expense attached to frequenting such places of fashionable resort. ↩
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“Alma.” The allusion is to Prior’s poem of “Alma: The Vital Principle.” In the first edition Scott says, “Alma, when seated in his arms and legs,” in accordance with Prior’s humorous theory.
“To her next stage as Alma flies,
And likes, as I have said, the thighs,
With sympathetic power she warms
Their good allies and friends, the arms.”—Editor ↩
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There is a family legend to this purpose, belonging to the knightly family of Bradshaigh, the proprietors of Haigh Hall, in Lancashire, where, I have been told, the event is recorded on a painted glass window. The German ballad of the Noble Moringer turns upon a similar topic. But undoubtedly many such incidents may have taken place, where, the distance being great and the intercourse infrequent, false reports concerning the fate of the absent Crusaders must have been commonly circulated, and sometimes perhaps rather hastily credited at home. ↩
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See Hoppner’s tale of The Seven Lovers. ↩
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These Introductory Chapters have been a good deal censured as tedious and unnecessary. Yet there are circumstances recorded in them which the author has not been able to persuade himself to retrench or cancel. ↩
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The attachment to this classic was, it is said, actually displayed in the manner mentioned in the text by an unfortunate Jacobite in that unhappy period. He escaped from
