The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
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From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford (1890)
"I must home to work while it is called day;
for the night cometh when no man can work.
I put that text, many a year ago, on my dial-stone;
but it often preached in vain."--Scott's Life
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No. II.
Letter from Mr. Carlyle referred to in vol. ii. p. 160.[526]
EDINBURGH, 21 COMELY BANK, 13th April 1828.
SIR,--In February last I had the honour to receive a letter from Von Goethe, announcing the speedy departure, from Weimar, of a Packet for me, in which, among other valuables, should be found "two medals," to be de……
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