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... tion , the editors will seize the occasion to say a few words , explanatory of their views . It is gratifying to remark that the periods of national annals , on which the historian delights to dwell , are those in which the field of ...
... tion , the editors will seize the occasion to say a few words , explanatory of their views . It is gratifying to remark that the periods of national annals , on which the historian delights to dwell , are those in which the field of ...
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... tion , by diligence , and by labour , and they now offer the following CONDITIONS . I. The work will be handsomely printed at the Lorenzo Press , on superfine woven paper , and published in monthly numbers , each to contain seventy ...
... tion , by diligence , and by labour , and they now offer the following CONDITIONS . I. The work will be handsomely printed at the Lorenzo Press , on superfine woven paper , and published in monthly numbers , each to contain seventy ...
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... tion , he commences underwriter at Lloyd's . Here he thinks he might have done well , but mere hazard of money for money did not accord with his feelings . " Although I never feared buffeting real storms and tempests , I soon began to ...
... tion , he commences underwriter at Lloyd's . Here he thinks he might have done well , but mere hazard of money for money did not accord with his feelings . " Although I never feared buffeting real storms and tempests , I soon began to ...
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... tion of that property the fire could not reach . I too assuredly saw I was a ruined man , but gave no way to despondency . Hard and unequal were my struggles against two such outrageous elements as seemed combined against me . Though ...
... tion of that property the fire could not reach . I too assuredly saw I was a ruined man , but gave no way to despondency . Hard and unequal were my struggles against two such outrageous elements as seemed combined against me . Though ...
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... tion of renown as has fallen to the lot of its predecessor . It is a good deal longer , indeed , and somewhat more ambitious ; and it is rather clearer that it has greater faults , than that it has greater beauties ; though , for our ...
... tion of renown as has fallen to the lot of its predecessor . It is a good deal longer , indeed , and somewhat more ambitious ; and it is rather clearer that it has greater faults , than that it has greater beauties ; though , for our ...
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Page 30 - The Border slogan rent the sky ! A Home! a Gordon! was the cry: Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered mid the foes.
Page 27 - Oh ! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 27 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran: There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see, So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Page 22 - George's banner, broad and gay, Now faded, as the fading ray Less bright, and less, was flung ; The evening gale had scarce the power To wave it on the Donjon Tower, So heavily it hung. The scouts had parted on their search, The Castle gates were barr'd ; Above the gloomy portal arch, Timing his footsteps to a march, The Warder kept his guard ; Low humming, as he paced along, Some ancient Border gathering song.
Page 31 - Fitz-Eustace, to Lord Surrey hie ; Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield ; Edmund is down — my life is reft ; The Admiral alone is left. Let Stanley charge with spur of fire, — With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. — Must I bid twice ? — hence, varlets ! fly ! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Page 31 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Page 30 - Is Wilton there ?" — With that, straight up the hill there rode Two horsemen drenched with gore, And in their arms, a helpless load, A wounded knight they bore.
Page 105 - I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O...
Page 32 - Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.
Page 30 - Crests rose, and stooped, and rose again. Wild and disorderly. Amid the scene of tumult, high They saw Lord Marmion's falcon fly ; And stainless Tunstall's banner white. And Edmund Howard's lion bright, Still bear them bravely in the fight ; Although against them come, Of gallant Gordons many a one, And many a stubborn Highlandman, And many a rugged Border clan. With Huntley and with Home. Far on the left, unseen the while, Stanley broke Lennox and Argyle...