"Hellishly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Erskine, with his fastidious, not to say finical, sense of honour, would never have lent his name to cover a puff written by Scott of his own works. A man who, in Scott's own words, died "a victim to a hellishly false story, or rather, I should say, to the sensibility of his own nature, which could not endure even the shadow of reproach,—like the ermine, which is said to pine if its fur is soiled," was ...
— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton |
