The MonasteryBernhard Tauchnitz, 1859 - 423 pages |
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answered arms aught Baron Benedictine better betwixt blood brethren brother called castle Christie church Clinthill Colmslie companion Dame Elspeth Dame Glendinning duty Earl Earl of Murray Edward English knight Euphuist eyes faith Father Eustace Father Philip fear feeling gallant give glen guest Halbert Glendinning Halidome hand hath head heart Heaven Henry Warden heretic holy honour horse Jedediah Cleishbotham Julian Avenel Kennaquhair Lady of Avenel looked Lord Abbot maiden Martin Mary Avenel matter Miller mind Molinara Monastery monk Morton moss-trooper mother Murray never noble once person pray preacher present replied reverence Sacristan Saint Mary's Scotland Scottish seemed shew Sir Knight Sir Piercie Shafton Southron speak spirit stranger Sub-Prior sword tell thee thine thou hast thought Tibb tion tone Tower of Glendearg turn vassals voice White Lady wild William de Douglas woman word youth
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Page 325 - Coll upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee." She read them, and her heart acquiesced in the conclusion, Surely this is the word of God!
Page 269 - from the hills where the hirsels are grazing, Come from the glen of the buck and the roe; Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing, Come with the buckler, the lance, and the bow. Trumpets are sounding, War-steeds are bounding,
Page 415 - and other dramatic writers, where the reader may find mention made of "Bonds enter'd into For gay apparel against the triumph day. Jonson informs us, that for the first entrance of a gallant, "'twere good you turned four or five hundred acres of your best land into two or three trunks of apparel."— Every Man out of his
Page 306 - Be so unmanly as to leave me here! If he do, maids will not so easily Trust men again. The Two Noble Kinsmen. THE knight continued to keep the good horse at a pace as quick as the road permitted, until they had cleared the valley of Glendearg, and entered upon the broad
Page 354 - to protect Lord Semple against Cassilis and the Kennedies. By my faith, it will cost him a brush; for wot ye what they say o'f that name, — "Twixt Wigton and the town of Ayr, Portpatrick and the cruives of Cree No man need think for to bide there, Unless he court Saint Kennedie.' " * Lord James Stewart, afterwards the
Page 84 - silver shower on the alders dank, And the drooping willows that wave on the bank. I see the Abbey, both turret and tower, It is all astir for the vesper hour; The monks for the chapel are leaving each cell, But where 's Father Philip, should toll the bell?
Page 136 - Noon glows on the Fell — Wake thee, O wake, White Maid of Avenel !" These lines were hardly uttered, when there stood the figure of a female clothed in white, within three steps of Halbert Glendinning. *' I guess 'twas frightful there to see A lady richly clad as she — Beautiful exceedingly.
Page 116 - reckless, Lie thou still In the nook of the hill, For those be before thee that wish thee ill." While the Sub-Prior listened, with his head turned in the direction from which the sounds seemed to come, he felt as if something rushed against him; and ere he could discover the
Page 84 - Merrily swim we , the moon shines bright, Downward we drift through shadow and light, Under yon rock the eddies sleep, Calm and silent, dark and deep, The Kelpy has risen from the fathomless pool, He has lighted his candle of death and of dool; Look, Father, look, and you '11 laugh to see How he gapes and glares with his eyes on
Page 83 - could increase, the bodily fear of the worthy Sacristan, I. Merrily swim we, the moon shines bright, We have roused the night raven, I heard him croak, Both current and ripple are dancing in light. As we plashed along beneath the oak That flings its broad branches so