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... agst Lord Clifden (off) 10 to 1 - Saccharometer (off) 12 to 1 - Hospodar (off) 1000 to 45 - Carnival (t) 1000 to 20 - Michael Scott (t) 1500 to 30 - Early Purl (t) 2000 to 30 - Glenochty colt (t) 1000 to 20 - any of John Scott's lot (off) WATERLOO (COURSING) ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Sydney Smith's celebrated and not very witty saying. Then he proceeds to adduce the names of Smollett, Burns, Walter Scott, Michael Scott, Thomas Carlyle, and others, in proof that Scotsmen have a wonderful faculty of humour. As well prove to us-and become ...

THE READER

... recalls the sad memories of Mary Stuart. Scottish kings held state at Falk- land and Dunfermline. Here lived the wizard, Michael Scott here was born David Wilkie ; and here at Donibristle was traitorously slain the bonnie Earl of Moray who was the Queen's ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1873
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4457 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE MAGAZINES FOR FEBRUARY

... Fenimore Cooper remains the only naval novelist of that generation worthy of comparison with Captain Marryat, except Michael Scott, the author of Tom Cringle's Log. There is an article on The Agricultural Labourer, written from a Conserva- tive ...

TRADITIONS AND HEARTHSIDE STORIES OF WEST CORNWALL.*

... shell) that has a hole in the bottom. He is then set to carry a truss of sand from Whitsand Bay to Cam Olva. Cleverer than Michael Scott's spirit, he chooses a very cold night, and binds his truss together with freezing water from Velan Dreath brook. However ...

CONJURORS.*

... ear of the middle ages. Some of theta bave fgured in thes pages of historians, novelists, and poets; as, for example, Michael Scott and Friar Bacon, who was not merely a conjuror, but in many respects a genulise son of science. From his writings we learn ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 1876
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2112 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LIVES OF THE CONJURERS.*

... read of the enchanter Merlin; of the Veiled Prophet Mokanna, celebrated in Lalla Rookh and on the canvas of MacIise; of Michael Scott, whose deeds as a wizard, we may remind Mr. Frost, are recorded in the Lay of the Last Minstrel; of Roger Bacon, who ...

LITERATURE

... loughbys. By Mrs. Lynn Linton. Is.; , Country Hoose Essay. By John.Latouche. Is.-Wscdj ock, andTyler. Ton Cringle's Log. By Michael Scott. ed.-P. Warne. Fire Burial among our Germanic Forefathers. By Karl Blind. . s.-Lougmans, Green, and Co. Food Chart. By ...

LITERATURE

... portrait of Columbus and a view of Sebastian Cabot leaving Labrador. Tom £'inyle's LGY, the old and well-known story by Michael Scott, has been added by Messrs. Fredk. Warn- and Co. to their popular series of Notable Novels, pube lished at 6d. each. Five ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... were a black man, and decides that black is a colour with a large variety of shades. Then we have Camden's oninion of Michael Scott of Bulwearie, who was no sorcerer, but only a savant. Next Gibbon is brought in to clear the character of Athanasius ...

THE FOLK-LORE OF HARES

... nothing was found save an old woman lying panting in a bed, so breathless that she could not speak a word. The celebrated Michael Scott of Oakwood was himself sorely victimised in this fashion, and that by one of his own tenants. This old lady (known as Lucky) ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1877
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2675 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROFESSOR RHYS'S GREAT WORK ON WELSH PHILOLOGY.*

... rescue id. lhohaei Scott, from the custody of Police sergeant lere, Richards and other officers, in Milton street.- land Michael Scott was charged with breaking the I windows of his father-in-law'a house. Honorah C Icout Swanton. the wife of the complainant ...