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 4by James Grant - 1850 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
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