The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Containing Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, Don Roderick, Rokeby, Ballads, Lyrics, and Songs. With a Life of the AuthorD. Appleton, 1894 - 647 pages |
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... speak , to make my meaning known ; and a solecism in point of compo- sition , like a Scotch word in speaking , is indifferent to me . I never learned grammar ; and not only Sir Hugh Evans , but even Mrs. Quickly , might puzzle me about ...
... speak , to make my meaning known ; and a solecism in point of compo- sition , like a Scotch word in speaking , is indifferent to me . I never learned grammar ; and not only Sir Hugh Evans , but even Mrs. Quickly , might puzzle me about ...
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... speak , That , if she loved the harp to hear , He could make music to her ear . The humble boon was soon obtain'd ; The aged Minstrel audience gain'd . †The Duchess . Anne , the heiress of Buc- cleuch , who had been married to the ...
... speak , That , if she loved the harp to hear , He could make music to her ear . The humble boon was soon obtain'd ; The aged Minstrel audience gain'd . †The Duchess . Anne , the heiress of Buc- cleuch , who had been married to the ...
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... speak , Oh ! if one page's slumbers break , His blood the price must pay ! Not all the pearls Queen Mary wears , Not Margaret's yet more precious tears , Shall buy his life a day . XII . Yet was his hazard small ; for well You may ...
... speak , Oh ! if one page's slumbers break , His blood the price must pay ! Not all the pearls Queen Mary wears , Not Margaret's yet more precious tears , Shall buy his life a day . XII . Yet was his hazard small ; for well You may ...
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... speak . His forehead , by his casque worn bare , His thick mustache , and curly hair , Coal - black , and grizzled here and there . But more through toil than age ; His square - turn'd joints , and strength of limb , Show'd him no ...
... speak . His forehead , by his casque worn bare , His thick mustache , and curly hair , Coal - black , and grizzled here and there . But more through toil than age ; His square - turn'd joints , and strength of limb , Show'd him no ...
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... speak ; And I have smiled , to feel my cheek , Despite the difference of our years , Return again the glow of theirs . Ah , happy boys ! such feelings pure , They will not , cannot , long endure ! Condemn'd to stem the world's rude tide ...
... speak ; And I have smiled , to feel my cheek , Despite the difference of our years , Return again the glow of theirs . Ah , happy boys ! such feelings pure , They will not , cannot , long endure ! Condemn'd to stem the world's rude tide ...
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