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" Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers" — a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge.— Quarterly Review. "
Memorials of the Castle of Edinburgh - Page 4
by James Grant - 1850 - 308 pages
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Greece Under the Romans: A Historical View of the Condition of the ..., Volume 2

George Finlay - Byzantine Empire - 1844 - 592 pages
...England," regarding Orahame or Clavvrhousc. In Foolscap Octavo, price 9s., elegantly bound in gilt cloth. " Finer ballads than those, we are bold to say, are not to be found in the language." — The Timtt. " Professor Aytoun's * Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers ' — a volume of verse which shows that...
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The Entail

John Galt - Scotland - 1850 - 442 pages
...Letters in the University of Edinburgh. Eighth Edition. Foolscap Svo, 7s. 6d. " Finer ballads than these, we are bold to say, are not to be found in the language."— Time*. ' ' Professor A ytoun's ' Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers '—a Tolnme of verse which shews that...
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Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John Hepburn, Volume 44

James Grant, Sir John HEPBURN - Hepburn, John - 1851 - 316 pages
...trumpet-note — now Kinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge." — Quarterly Review. " Finer ballads than those, we are bold to say, are...much of the warmth and fulness of their colouring. Such lines fix themselves in the memory, as the first-loved melodies of childhood. We have read them...
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Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-century in Six Lectures

David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge."— Quarterly Review. " Finer ballads than those, we are bold to say, are...much of the warmth and fulness of their colouring Such lines fix themselves in the memory, as the first-loved melodies of childhood. We have read them...
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Fortification for officers of the army and students of military history

sir Henry Yule - 1851 - 282 pages
...trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge." — Quarterly Review. " Finer ballads than those, we are bold to say, are...reality of the old pictures, and much of the warmth and fulnesa of their colouring. They take up an inspiriting event, narrate it, and by the mere force of...
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The History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by ...

George Finlay - Achaia (Greece) - 1851 - 562 pages
...Lettres in the University of Edinburgh. Seventh Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 7s. 6i " Finer ballads than these, we are bold to say, are not to be found in the language." Tux Tiii^ BROWN. — HISTORY OF THE PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE HEATHEN SINCE THE REFORMATION....
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The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir, Volume 1

David Macbeth Moir - 1852 - 414 pages
...trumpet-note — now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge." — Quarterly Review. " Finer ballads than those, we are bold to say, are...much of the warmth and fulness of their colouring Such lines fix themselves in the memory, as the first-loved melodies of childhood. We have read them...
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History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the ..., Volume 1

Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1852 - 656 pages
...volume nf cerse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet." QUART. REVIEW. " Finer ballads than, these, we are bold to say, are not to be found in the language." THE TIMES. XVII. THE COURSE OF TIME. A POEM, IN TEN BOOKS. By ROIIKRT POLLOK, AM 20th Edition. 7s. 6d....
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Paris After Waterloo: Notes Taken at the Time and Hitherto Unpublished ...

James Simpson - Paris (France) - 1853 - 382 pages
...of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet.*' — Quart. Review. " Finer ballads than these, we are bold to say, are not to be found in the language."— The Times. POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER. TRANSLATED BY SIR EB LYTTON, BART. Second Edition, 10s. 6d. "...
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The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Present Age

Samuel Warren - Civilization, Modern - 1853 - 152 pages
...of verse wliich shows that Scotland has yet a poet." — Quart. Review. " Finer ballads than these, we are bold to say, are not to be found in the language." — The Times. POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER. TRANSLATED BY SIR EB LYTTON, BART. Second Edition, 10s. 6d. '...
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