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Page ix
... Duke of Albany , and the whole court of Scotland , at Perth , in the year of grace 1396 , seemed to mark with equal dis- tinctness the rancour of these mountain - feuds and the degraded condition of the general government of the country ...
... Duke of Albany , and the whole court of Scotland , at Perth , in the year of grace 1396 , seemed to mark with equal dis- tinctness the rancour of these mountain - feuds and the degraded condition of the general government of the country ...
Page 95
... Duke of Al- bany , who will make our petition for righting of our wrongs the pretence for squeezing money out of us . ' ' We will none of Albany for our judge ! ' answered the meeting with the same unanimity as before . ' Or perhaps ...
... Duke of Al- bany , who will make our petition for righting of our wrongs the pretence for squeezing money out of us . ' ' We will none of Albany for our judge ! ' answered the meeting with the same unanimity as before . ' Or perhaps ...
Page 96
... Duke of Rothsay take charge of it ; and the wild young prince will regard the outrage as something for his gay com- panions to scoff at , and his minstrels to turn into song . ' ' Away with Rothsay ! he is too gay to be our judge ...
... Duke of Rothsay take charge of it ; and the wild young prince will regard the outrage as something for his gay com- panions to scoff at , and his minstrels to turn into song . ' ' Away with Rothsay ! he is too gay to be our judge ...
Page 135
... Duke of Rothsay , in order to give him the present possession of a dignity next to that of the throne . ' But the young prince's head was too giddy , and his hand too feeble , to wield with dignity the delegated sceptre . However fond ...
... Duke of Rothsay , in order to give him the present possession of a dignity next to that of the throne . ' But the young prince's head was too giddy , and his hand too feeble , to wield with dignity the delegated sceptre . However fond ...
Page 136
... Duke of Rothsay . In the contest for preference which ensued , George Earl of Dunbar and March , who possessed , by himself or his vassals , a great part of the eastern frontier , was preferred to other competitors ; and his daughter ...
... Duke of Rothsay . In the contest for preference which ensued , George Earl of Dunbar and March , who possessed , by himself or his vassals , a great part of the eastern frontier , was preferred to other competitors ; and his daughter ...
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Page 203 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 111 - Have a care he does not hear you say so,' said the smith. 'I tell thee, bonnet-maker, that there is more danger in yonder slight wasted anatomy than in twenty stout fellows like yourself.
Page 304 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 49 - Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date. What want these outlaws conquerors should have? But History's purchased page to call them great? A wider space, an ornamented grave? Their hopes were not less warm, their souls were full as brave.
Page 460 - What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir...