Books with author Scott E. Williams

Excerpt from The Parterre of Fiction, Poetry, History, Literature, and the Fine Arts, Vol. 1: With Twenty-Seven EngravingsIn conclusion, we beg to assure our friends, that the next volume shall be still richer in original articles a promise of which our forth coming numbers will hé the fulfilment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Scott's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 5: February, 1868Pity me, Father! For His holy sake, Whose broken heart bled at the feet of Grief, That hearts of earth wherever they shall break, Night no to His and find a sure relief. Ah, me! How dark! Is this a brief eclipse i Or is it Night with no to-morrow's sun r 01: Father! Father! With my pale sad lips, And sadder heart, I pray, Thy will be done.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Tales of Chivalry, or Perils by Flood and Field, Vol. 2When the wanderer, traversing the beau tiful valley called the Ortzhall, in Tyrol, has passed the magnificent waterfall of Stuben, and the path, gradually becoming narrower and steeper, winds on among detached masses of rock, sometimes along fearful abysses on the one hand, and sometimes beneath immense perpendicular walls of stone on the other, he comes to a rude, uncultivated track, where, at the foot of a beetling cliff, overhanging the foaming torrent of the impetuous Ortz bach, there is a cavern almost closed by a block of gigantic magnitude. Having squeezed himself with difficulty through the narrow aperture, he discovers in the interior, which is nearly choked up with rubbish, seven crosses of black wood and, in the rock forming the side of the cavern, are to be seen the same number of crosses, and an inscription, now nearly obliterated, vol. II. - l.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Tales of Chivalry, or Perils by Flood and Field, Vol. 2When the wanderer, traversing the beau tiful valley called the Ortzhall, in Tyrol, has passed the magnificent waterfall of Stuben, and the path, gradually becoming narrower and steeper, winds on among detached masses of rock, sometimes along fearful abysses on the one hand, and sometimes beneath immense perpendicular walls of stone on the other, he comes to a rude, uncultivated track, where, at the foot of a beetling cliff, overhanging the foaming torrent of the impetuous Ortz bach, there is a cavern almost closed by a block of gigantic magnitude. Having squeezed himself with difficulty through the narrow aperture, he discovers in the interior, which is nearly choked up with rubbish, seven crosses of black wood and, in the rock forming the side of the cavern, are to be seen the same number of crosses, and an inscription, now nearly obliterated, vol. II. - l.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.