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ran " But had I kennd ere I cam frae hame , rane lord the King , allanerly except ;
and to be How thou unkind wadsı been to me ! trewe , gude , and lele servant to
my said lord , and be I wad have keepit the Border side , ready to do him service
...
ran " But had I kennd ere I cam frae hame , rane lord the King , allanerly except ;
and to be How thou unkind wadsı been to me ! trewe , gude , and lele servant to
my said lord , and be I wad have keepit the Border side , ready to do him service
...
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was 2 LORD EWRIE . sidence of Robert Bruce , while Lord of Annandale .
Accordingly it was always held to be a royal fortSir Ralph Evre , or Ewrie , or
Evers , commemo- ress , the keeping of which , according to the custom rated in
the ...
was 2 LORD EWRIE . sidence of Robert Bruce , while Lord of Annandale .
Accordingly it was always held to be a royal fortSir Ralph Evre , or Ewrie , or
Evers , commemo- ress , the keeping of which , according to the custom rated in
the ...
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Though I hae slain the Lord Johnstone , What care I for their feid ? My noble mind
their wrath disdaing - He was my father's deid . Both night and day I labour'd oft
Of him avenged to be ; But now I've got what lang , I sought , And I may not stay ...
Though I hae slain the Lord Johnstone , What care I for their feid ? My noble mind
their wrath disdaing - He was my father's deid . Both night and day I labour'd oft
Of him avenged to be ; But now I've got what lang , I sought , And I may not stay ...
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I feel my former soul return ; It kindles at thy cold disdain : And has a mortal dared
to spurn THE LORD HERRIES HIS COMPLAINT , A daughter of the foamy main !
"She fled around the crystal cave A fragment .-- Never before published .
I feel my former soul return ; It kindles at thy cold disdain : And has a mortal dared
to spurn THE LORD HERRIES HIS COMPLAINT , A daughter of the foamy main !
"She fled around the crystal cave A fragment .-- Never before published .
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... of his The Lue , or Huc , lord of the castle of Gast , near Salishury , Fok , and the
particular circumstances under which it was written . who translated the romance
of Sir Tristrem from the Latin of While the English minstrels had hardly ventured ...
... of his The Lue , or Huc , lord of the castle of Gast , near Salishury , Fok , and the
particular circumstances under which it was written . who translated the romance
of Sir Tristrem from the Latin of While the English minstrels had hardly ventured ...
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Page 165 - There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna been a week from her, « A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.
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Page 325 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 46 - To take the helm in hand, Till you go up to the tall topmast, But I fear you'll ne'er spy land.
Page 329 - Tis said, as through the aisles they pass'd, They heard strange noises on the blast ; And through the cloister-galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall Loud sobs, and laughter louder, ran, And voices unlike the voice of man; As if the fiends kept holiday, Because these spells were brought to day. I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Page 347 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill.
Page 325 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
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| Title | The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 1 The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Nov 2006 |
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