In it Scott had gathered together many ballads which he heard from the country folk, but he altered and bettered them as he thought fit, and among them were new ballads by himself andsome of his friends.
Then, when he had filled his mind with the sacred story, he would go away by himself and weave it into song.
He loved movement and life, overflowed with it himself and poured it into his creations, making them live in spite of rather than because of their absurdities.
It was so hard to feel so much life in himself and to be able to save none of it!
At heart Hassler had a supreme contempt for everybody, friends and enemies alike; and this bitter jeering contempt was extended to himself and life in general.
And seizing the opportunity to deliver the speech which she had prepared, she added that if Louisa was unhappy he had to go no further for the cause of it than his own conduct, which was a shame to himself and a scandal to everybody else.
He was thinking only ofhimself and not at all of the work.
He who best knoweth how to suffer shall possess the most peace; that man is conqueror ofhimself and lord of the world, the friend of Christ, and the inheritor of heaven.
That having given up all things besides, he give up himself and go forth from himself utterly, and retain nothing of self-love; and having done all things which he knoweth to be his duty to do, that he feel that he hath done nothing.
A hasty zeal to reform the corrupted state, accompanied with less prudence than might have been expected from the years and experience of Pertinax, proved fatal to himself and to his country.
It was from Dionysius, written in the terms of it to Dion, but in effect to the Syracusans, and so worded that, under a plausible justification of himself and entreaty to him, means were taken for rendering him suspected by the people.
They, however, seized his hand with joyful faces, bidding him go and see to himself and not be concerned about them, calling him their emperor and their general, and saying that if he did well they were safe.
His attempts with aspirates were a continual humiliation to himself and a joy to the whole school.
With a perfectly serious face he will attribute to himself and to his nation all the virtues in the calendar.
In each case the stealing was apparently motivated to give a good time to himself and also to certain chums he made here and there in the city.
While I remained in London this spring, I was with him at several other times, both by himself and in company.
It was an entire surprise to himself and to his friends.
If fortunately he has genius enough to create a character that has reality to himself and to others, he must be faithful to that character.
McGregor looked about him and thought of himself and of the restless moving people.
It is something big I can try to do," he whispered to himself and in fancy saw the great disorderly city on the western plains rocked by the swing and rhythm of men, aroused and awakening with their bodies a song of new life.
The author would only be 'imposing on himself and others.
It may be well to bring forward here Confucius's own estimate of himself and of his doctrines.
It will serve to illustrate the [Sidebar] His own estimate of himself and of his doctrines.
There's something in that," the general admitted, with a candor that he made the most of both to himself and to her.
All he wants is somebody to take him in hand and keep him from makin' an ass of himself and kickin' over the traces generally, and ridin' two or three horses bareback at once.
There was something delicate and fine in it, and there was nothing unkindly on Fulkerson's part in the hostilities which usually passed between himself and Lindau.
It's simply the case of a man who has made a fool of himself and sees no help of retrieval in himself.
This was the only good that had ever been in March's mind, except the good that was to come in a material way from his success, to himself and to his family.
Though the heart of woman should never be trusted, he believed in a woman all the more insensately, because he supposed her faithful to himself and treacherous to her son.
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