[St. Ronan’s Well by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookSt. Ronan’s Well CHAPTER XIX 13/17
They were gradually merged in, and overpowered at St. Andrews, for example, by the Canons Regular, and are last heard of in prosecuting a claim to elect the Bishop, at the time of Edward the First's interference with Scottish affairs.
The points on which they differed from Roman practice would probably have seemed very insignificant to such a theologian as Meg Dods. [I-D] p.47.
"Fortunio, in the fairy-tale." The gifted companions of Fortunio, Keen-eye, Keen-ear, and so forth, are very old stock characters in Maerchen: their first known appearance is in the saga of Jason and the Fleece of Gold. [I-E] p.169.
"The sportsman's sense of his own cruelty." In the reminiscences of Captain Basil Hall, published by Lockhart, he mentions that Scott himself had a dislike of shooting, from a sentiment as to the cruelty of the sport.
"I was never quite at ease when I had knocked down my blackcock, and going to pick him up he cast back his dying eye with a look of reproach.
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