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)
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Will you no come back again?
Better loved you’ll never be,
And will you no come back again?
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…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.
James HoggTags: defiance contrariness
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
James HoggAn 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 HoggTags: 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 HoggTags: murder madness religion gothic rural scottish edinburgh
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