The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Complete in One Volume. With All His Introductions and Notes, Also, Various Readings, and the Editor's Notes ...Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1854 - 840 pages |
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... given to supply the loss of a fine horse , which broke down suddenly while the au- thor was riding with one of the worthy publish- ers.3 It would be great affectation not to own frankly , that the author expected some success from " The ...
... given to supply the loss of a fine horse , which broke down suddenly while the au- thor was riding with one of the worthy publish- ers.3 It would be great affectation not to own frankly , that the author expected some success from " The ...
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... given in poetry . ' " In the very first rank of poetical excellence , we are in- clined to place the introductory and concluding lines of every canto , in which the ancient strain is suspended , and the feel- ings and situation of the ...
... given in poetry . ' " In the very first rank of poetical excellence , we are in- clined to place the introductory and concluding lines of every canto , in which the ancient strain is suspended , and the feel- ings and situation of the ...
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... given , To lift from earth our low desire , " & c . The Ginour . A martial piece of music , adapted to the bagpipes . The heart of them that loved so well . True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It ...
... given , To lift from earth our low desire , " & c . The Ginour . A martial piece of music , adapted to the bagpipes . The heart of them that loved so well . True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It ...
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... given with them , which at one time cost us derely , and was to us great displeasure ; for , at the said skyrmishe , Sir John Lawrence of Coygne was striken with a dart in such wise , that the bead perced all the plates of his cote of ...
... given with them , which at one time cost us derely , and was to us great displeasure ; for , at the said skyrmishe , Sir John Lawrence of Coygne was striken with a dart in such wise , that the bead perced all the plates of his cote of ...
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... given by man alive . - P . 29 . Dr. Henry More , in a letter prefixed to Glanville's Saducis- mus Triumphatus , mentions a similar phenomenon . " I remember an old gentleman in the country , of my ac quaintance , an excellent justice of ...
... given by man alive . - P . 29 . Dr. Henry More , in a letter prefixed to Glanville's Saducis- mus Triumphatus , mentions a similar phenomenon . " I remember an old gentleman in the country , of my ac quaintance , an excellent justice of ...
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Page 207 - Have then thy wish!' — He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows : On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe...
Page 38 - CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Page 84 - O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Page 183 - Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er, Dream of fighting fields no more : Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Page 176 - E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue? — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear ! A Chieftain's daughter seem'd the maid ; Her satin snood, her silken plaid, Her golden brooch, such birth betray'd.
Page 48 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire's light, And redder than the bright moon-beam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen, 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from cavern'd Hawthornden.
Page 26 - 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 172 - The antler'd monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high...
Page 120 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 98 - Of witches' spells, of warriors' arms ; Of patriot battles, won of old By Wallace wight and Bruce the bold ; Of later fields of feud and fight, When, pouring from their Highland height, The Scottish clans, in headlong sway, Had swept the scarlet ranks away. While...