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... tide The glaring bale - fires blaze no more ; No longer steel - clad warriors ride Along thy wild and willowed shore ... tide of human time , Which , though it change in ceaseless flow , Retains each grief , retains each crime , Its ...
... tide The glaring bale - fires blaze no more ; No longer steel - clad warriors ride Along thy wild and willowed shore ... tide of human time , Which , though it change in ceaseless flow , Retains each grief , retains each crime , Its ...
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... tide . Moreover , they have not gone far when a gale of wind gets up , driving the tide in more fiercely . A year or two ago , you may remember , a similar com- • 1 bination of tide and wind sent a great tidal wave 72 SIR WALTER SCOTT.
... tide . Moreover , they have not gone far when a gale of wind gets up , driving the tide in more fiercely . A year or two ago , you may remember , a similar com- • 1 bination of tide and wind sent a great tidal wave 72 SIR WALTER SCOTT.
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... tide had unhorsed him as he was passing the sands from Cumberland . The west wind blew a tempest , and according to the common expression brought in the water three feet abreast . The traveller got upon a standing net a little way from ...
... tide had unhorsed him as he was passing the sands from Cumberland . The west wind blew a tempest , and according to the common expression brought in the water three feet abreast . The traveller got upon a standing net a little way from ...
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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