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Page 96
... 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 , ' again exclaimed the citizens . Simon , emboldened by ...
... 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 , ' again exclaimed the citizens . Simon , emboldened by ...
Page 135
... prince's head was too giddy , and his hand too feeble , to wield with dignity the delegated sceptre . However fond of power , pleasure was the Prince's favourite pursuit ; and the court was disturbed , and the country scandalised , by ...
... prince's head was too giddy , and his hand too feeble , to wield with dignity the delegated sceptre . However fond of power , pleasure was the Prince's favourite pursuit ; and the court was disturbed , and the country scandalised , by ...
Page 136
... his son to Marjory Douglas , a woman whom Rothsay could not love . No apology was offered to the Earl of March , excepting that the espousals betwixt the Prince and Elizabeth of Dunbar had not been approved by the States 136 WAVERLEY ...
... his son to Marjory Douglas , a woman whom Rothsay could not love . No apology was offered to the Earl of March , excepting that the espousals betwixt the Prince and Elizabeth of Dunbar had not been approved by the States 136 WAVERLEY ...
Page 138
... prince , though , indeed , theirs was , at that period , an influence from which few or none escaped , however resolute and firm of purpose in affairs of a tem- poral character . We now return from this long digres- sion , without which ...
... prince , though , indeed , theirs was , at that period , an influence from which few or none escaped , however resolute and firm of purpose in affairs of a tem- poral character . We now return from this long digres- sion , without which ...
Page 151
... prince , and in the heyday of his blood . We will have patience with him like a good rider with a hot - tempered horse . Let him exhaust this idle humour , and no one will be better pleased with him than yourself . You have censured me ...
... prince , and in the heyday of his blood . We will have patience with him like a good rider with a hot - tempered horse . Let him exhaust this idle humour , and no one will be better pleased with him than yourself . You have censured me ...
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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.
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