The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 1Conner & Cooke, 1833 - English literature |
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... heard or seen . " Query , who was the " auld King Haric " here meant ? If Henry VIII . be intended , as is most likely , it must bring the date of the poem , at least of that verse , as low as Queen Mary's time . The ballad is said to ...
... heard or seen . " Query , who was the " auld King Haric " here meant ? If Henry VIII . be intended , as is most likely , it must bring the date of the poem , at least of that verse , as low as Queen Mary's time . The ballad is said to ...
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... heard to express a wish to have a green coat , ordered a vestment of that colour to be made and left in his haunts . Brownie took away the green coat , but was never seen more . We may suppose , that , tired of his domestic drudgery ...
... heard to express a wish to have a green coat , ordered a vestment of that colour to be made and left in his haunts . Brownie took away the green coat , but was never seen more . We may suppose , that , tired of his domestic drudgery ...
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... heard it was the garrison , hee was then more quiet . " All the whole March expected nightly some hurt to be done ; But so powerfull and so awfull was this Sir Robert Kerr , and but God so blessed mee and the government 1 held , as ...
... heard it was the garrison , hee was then more quiet . " All the whole March expected nightly some hurt to be done ; But so powerfull and so awfull was this Sir Robert Kerr , and but God so blessed mee and the government 1 held , as ...
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... heard his father's name , An angry man was he ! Then , lifting up a gilt dagger , Hung low down by his knee , He stabb'd the knight the standard bore , He stabb'd him cruellie ; Then caught the standard by the neuk , And fast away rode ...
... heard his father's name , An angry man was he ! Then , lifting up a gilt dagger , Hung low down by his knee , He stabb'd the knight the standard bore , He stabb'd him cruellie ; Then caught the standard by the neuk , And fast away rode ...
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... heard it for many years ; but , when she was a girl , it used to be sung at merry - makings , " till the roof rung again . " To preserve this curious , though rude rhyme , it is here inserted . The ludicrous turn given to the slaughter ...
... heard it for many years ; but , when she was a girl , it used to be sung at merry - makings , " till the roof rung again . " To preserve this curious , though rude rhyme , it is here inserted . The ludicrous turn given to the slaughter ...
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