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... Bride of Douglas , the patron saint of that great family , and the various localities alluded to by Godscroft in his account of the early adventures of Good Sir James ; but though he was fortunate enough to find a zealous and well ...
... Bride of Douglas , the patron saint of that great family , and the various localities alluded to by Godscroft in his account of the early adventures of Good Sir James ; but though he was fortunate enough to find a zealous and well ...
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... Bride , having beneath it the vault which was used till lately as the burial - place of this princely race , and only abandoned when their stone and leaden coffins had accumulated , in the course of five or six hundred years , in such a ...
... Bride , having beneath it the vault which was used till lately as the burial - place of this princely race , and only abandoned when their stone and leaden coffins had accumulated , in the course of five or six hundred years , in such a ...
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... Bride of Douglas into a stable for their horses . Enough , however , remains to identify the resting - place of the great Sir James . The effigy , of dark stone , is cross - legged , marking his character as one who had died after ...
... Bride of Douglas into a stable for their horses . Enough , however , remains to identify the resting - place of the great Sir James . The effigy , of dark stone , is cross - legged , marking his character as one who had died after ...
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... by the insecurity attending it . About half a mile farther was seen a Gothic building of very small extent , having a half - dismantled chapel , which the minstrel pronounced to be the abbey of St. Bride . ' The place , ' he 14.
... by the insecurity attending it . About half a mile farther was seen a Gothic building of very small extent , having a half - dismantled chapel , which the minstrel pronounced to be the abbey of St. Bride . ' The place , ' he 14.
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Walter Scott. of St. Bride . ' The place , ' he said , ' I understand , is allowed to subsist , as two or three old monks and as many nuns , whom it contains , are permitted by the English to serve God there , and sometimes to give ...
Walter Scott. of St. Bride . ' The place , ' he said , ' I understand , is allowed to subsist , as two or three old monks and as many nuns , whom it contains , are permitted by the English to serve God there , and sometimes to give ...
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Popular passages
Page 287 - There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle!
Page 201 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 79 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 122 - That name does not belang to me; I am but the Queen of fair Elfland, That am hither come to visit thee. 'Harp and carp, Thomas', she said; 'Harp and carp along wi' me; And if ye dare to kiss my lips, Sure of your bodie I will be.
Page 14 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 174 - Through Solway sands, through Tarras moss, Blindfold, he knew the paths to cross ; By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best blood-hounds; In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime : Steady of heart, and stout of hand, As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been, By England's King, and Scotland's...
Page 186 - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 123 - O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was nae stern light, And they waded through red blude to the knee; For a' the blude that's shed on earth Rins through the springs o
Page 164 - THE feast was over in Branksome tower, And the Ladye had gone to her secret bower ; Her bower, that was guarded by word and by spell, Deadly to hear, and deadly to tell — Jesu Maria, shield us well ! No living wight save the Ladye alone, Had dared to cross the threshold stone.
Page 159 - Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by .an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected and...