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COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS--CASTLE DANGEROUS--
MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR, &c. &c.




Tales of my Landlord.

COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS.

      The European with the Asian shore--
        Sophia's cupola with golden gleam
      The cypress groves--Olympus high and hoar--
        The twelve isles, and the more than I could dream,
      Far less describe, present the very view
        That charm'd the charming Mary Montagu.
                                         DON JUAN.

ADVERTISEMENT.--(1833.)

Sir Walter Scott transmitted from Naples, in February, 1832, an
Introduction for CASTLE DANGEROUS; but if he ever wrote one for a
second Edition of ROBERT OF PARIS, it has not been discovered among his
papers. Some notes, chiefly extracts from the books which he had been

 

 

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