The Handy Volume "Waverley" ...: The fair maid of PerthBradbury, Agnew, 1877 |
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... knights , I trust thou wilt always remember thou art too low to be their lawful love , and too high to be their unlawful loon . And now lay by thy work , lass , for it is holytide eve , and it becomes us to go to the evening service ...
... knights , I trust thou wilt always remember thou art too low to be their lawful love , and too high to be their unlawful loon . And now lay by thy work , lass , for it is holytide eve , and it becomes us to go to the evening service ...
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... Knight finds asleep among a wilderness of flowers , I felt even as a bird , when it folds its wearied wings to stoop down on its own nest . " ' Aha ! so thou canst play the Maker yet ? " said the Glover . " What , shall we have our ...
... Knight finds asleep among a wilderness of flowers , I felt even as a bird , when it folds its wearied wings to stoop down on its own nest . " ' Aha ! so thou canst play the Maker yet ? " said the Glover . " What , shall we have our ...
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... knights and ladies , our abbots , monks , and priests them- selves , so earnestly crowd to see ? Is it not to behold the display of chivalry , to witness the gallant actions of brave knights in the tilt and tourney - ground , to look ...
... knights and ladies , our abbots , monks , and priests them- selves , so earnestly crowd to see ? Is it not to behold the display of chivalry , to witness the gallant actions of brave knights in the tilt and tourney - ground , to look ...
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Walter Scott. dames take their loftiest pride , save in the chivalry of their knight ; and has the boldest in Scotland done more gallant deeds than my brave son Henry , though but of low degree ? Is he not known to Highland and Lowland ...
Walter Scott. dames take their loftiest pride , save in the chivalry of their knight ; and has the boldest in Scotland done more gallant deeds than my brave son Henry , though but of low degree ? Is he not known to Highland and Lowland ...
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Walter Scott. CHAP . II . Whence cometh Smith , be he knight , lord , or squire , But from the smith that forged in the fire ? -Verstegan . HE armourer's heart swelled big with various and contending sensations , so that it seemed as if ...
Walter Scott. CHAP . II . Whence cometh Smith , be he knight , lord , or squire , But from the smith that forged in the fire ? -Verstegan . HE armourer's heart swelled big with various and contending sensations , so that it seemed as if ...
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Page 92 - Isabel, I suppose you mean," answered the Smith. " Ay — Isabel, or Jezabel, — all the same, you know. But here comes Bailie Craigdallie at last, with that poor, creeping, cowardly creature, the Pottingar.
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