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... heard his aunt read stories from the Bible ; and out on the moors with the shepherd he heard other stories , for the country was the Border , where for centuries there had been fighting and robbing between the Scots and the English ...
... heard his aunt read stories from the Bible ; and out on the moors with the shepherd he heard other stories , for the country was the Border , where for centuries there had been fighting and robbing between the Scots and the English ...
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... heard : " A mellow voice Fitz - Eustace had , The air he chose was wild and sad ; Such have I heard , in Scottish land , Rise from the busy harvest band , When falls before the mountaineer , On Lowland plains , the ripen'd ear . Now one ...
... heard : " A mellow voice Fitz - Eustace had , The air he chose was wild and sad ; Such have I heard , in Scottish land , Rise from the busy harvest band , When falls before the mountaineer , On Lowland plains , the ripen'd ear . Now one ...
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... heard ( for it was night and I could not see ) a traveller drowning - in the Frith of Solway . The inflow of the tide had unhorsed him as he was passing the sands from Cumberland . The west wind blew a tempest , and according to the ...
... heard ( for it was night and I could not see ) a traveller drowning - in the Frith of Solway . The inflow of the tide had unhorsed him as he was passing the sands from Cumberland . The west wind blew a tempest , and according to the ...
Contents
Stories of Scotts Boyhood page II | 11 |
How the Ballads led to the Poems | 41 |
How the Poems led to the Novels | 55 |
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