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... feelings of honour and of jealousy up to a certain point , and then suddenly giving way , under circumstances to which the bravest heart could hardly refuse compassion . The controversy , as to who really were the clans that figured in ...
... feelings of honour and of jealousy up to a certain point , and then suddenly giving way , under circumstances to which the bravest heart could hardly refuse compassion . The controversy , as to who really were the clans that figured in ...
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... feeling could outlive generations . The late much - lamented General Stewart of Garth , in his account of the battle of Killiecrankie , informs us that Lochiel was attended on the field by the son of his foster- brother . " This ...
... feeling could outlive generations . The late much - lamented General Stewart of Garth , in his account of the battle of Killiecrankie , informs us that Lochiel was attended on the field by the son of his foster- brother . " This ...
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... course of my story shall take its rise upon this occasion at a remote period of history , and in a province removed from my natural sphere of the Canongate . ' It was under the influence of those feelings that I xxvii INTRODUCTORY.
... course of my story shall take its rise upon this occasion at a remote period of history , and in a province removed from my natural sphere of the Canongate . ' It was under the influence of those feelings that I xxvii INTRODUCTORY.
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Sir Walter Scott. It was under the influence of those feelings that I undertook the following historical romance , which , often suspended and flung aside , is now arrived at a size too important to be altogether thrown away , although ...
Sir Walter Scott. It was under the influence of those feelings that I undertook the following historical romance , which , often suspended and flung aside , is now arrived at a size too important to be altogether thrown away , although ...
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... feeling of respect induced passengers to give way to the father and daughter . But when the steel caps , barrets , and plumes of squires , archers , and men - at - arms began to be seen among the throng , the wearers of these warlike ...
... feeling of respect induced passengers to give way to the father and daughter . But when the steel caps , barrets , and plumes of squires , archers , and men - at - arms began to be seen among the throng , the wearers of these warlike ...
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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...