The Fair Maid of Perth, Or, Saint Valentine's Day

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Marcus Ward & Company, 1878 - Scotland - 440 pages

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Page 399 - The details are but imperfectly known to me — but the certainty is, that my unhappy nephew was found dead in his apartment last night from sudden illness — as I have heard.
Page 147 - 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 mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 111 - THE Duke of Albany was, like his royal brother, named Robert. The Christian name of the latter had been John, until he was called to the throne; when the superstition of the times observed that the name had been connected with misfortune in the lives and reigns of John of Engknd, John of France, and John Baliol of Scotland.
Page 305 - 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 340 - It is an opportunity lost," said Ramorny ; " but we must delay our blow till he has seen this beauty, Catharine Glover. She may be hereafter a witness that she saw him in good health, and master of his own motions, a brief space before — you understand me ?" Dwining nodded assent, and added, " There is no time lost ; for there is little difficulty in blighting a flower, exhausted from having been made to bloom too soon.

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