. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed. with a careful revision of the text. NOTES. <l\)t Lap of tlje ILast jMuistwl. The Laj was first published early in January,1805, in a magnificent quarto, the price being25 shillings (about $ in Federal money),and the edition of 750 copies was speedily ex-hausted. Up to 1830 the sales had amountedto 44,000 copies. The poem had the following preface: — The Poem, now offered to the Public, is in-tended to illustrate the customs and mannerswhich anciently prevailed on the Borders ofEngland and Scotland. The inhabitants livingin a state
. The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed. with a careful revision of the text. NOTES. <l\)t Lap of tlje ILast jMuistwl. The Laj was first published early in January,1805, in a magnificent quarto, the price being25 shillings (about $ in Federal money),and the edition of 750 copies was speedily ex-hausted. Up to 1830 the sales had amountedto 44,000 copies. The poem had the following preface: — The Poem, now offered to the Public, is in-tended to illustrate the customs and mannerswhich anciently prevailed on the Borders ofEngland and Scotland. The inhabitants livingin a state partly pastoral and partly warlike,and combining habits of constant depredationwith the influence of a rude spirit of chivalry,were often engaged in scenes highly susceptibleof poetical ornament. As the description ofscenery and manners was more the object of theAuthor than a combined and regular narrative,the plan of the Ancient Metrical Romance wasadopted, which allows greater latitude, in thisrespect, than would be consistent with the dig-nity of a regular Poem. The same model of-f
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