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Page xi
... occasion brought four thousand of his clan to the aid of the royal banner against the Lord of the Isles . This historian is of opinion that the Clan Quhele of Wyntoun were the Camerons , who appear to have about that period been often ...
... occasion brought four thousand of his clan to the aid of the royal banner against the Lord of the Isles . This historian is of opinion that the Clan Quhele of Wyntoun were the Camerons , who appear to have about that period been often ...
Page xix
... occasion , as two or three inhabitants appeared , who , like me , threatened to maintain the housekeeper's side of the question . He therefore took his leave , mut- tering that he had always heard the Scots were a nasty people , but had ...
... occasion , as two or three inhabitants appeared , who , like me , threatened to maintain the housekeeper's side of the question . He therefore took his leave , mut- tering that he had always heard the Scots were a nasty people , but had ...
Page xxi
... occasion to regret the want of these ready supplements to a failing invention . But you , most of all , have right to complain that the fairies have not favoured your researches you , who have shown the world that the age of chivalry ...
... occasion to regret the want of these ready supplements to a failing invention . But you , most of all , have right to complain that the fairies have not favoured your researches you , who have shown the world that the age of chivalry ...
Page xxvii
... 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.
Page 15
... occasion to make a brawl , though we do not run . Walk thou before with Catharine , and I will take thy place . We cannot be exposed to danger so near home as we are . ' The glover fell behind accordingly , and certainly ob- served a ...
... occasion to make a brawl , though we do not run . Walk thou before with Catharine , and I will take thy place . We cannot be exposed to danger so near home as we are . ' The glover fell behind accordingly , and certainly ob- served a ...
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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...