With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.
James HoggBy that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.
James HoggHaving been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache.
(Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)
Stichwörter: mountains
Will you no come back again?
Better loved you’ll never be,
And will you no come back again?
Stichwörter: love james hogg jocobite-relics
…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.
James HoggStichwörter: defiance contrariness
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
James HoggStichwörter: evil religion damnation
An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.
James HoggStichwörter: madness religion gothic rural scottish edinburgh
The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction
James HoggStichwörter: murder madness religion gothic rural scottish edinburgh
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