Works, Volume 20Houghton Mifflin, 1923 |
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Sir Walter Scott. CHAPTER III Whence cometh Smith , be he knight , lord , or squire , But from the smith that forged in the fire ? VERSTEGAN . THE armourer's heart swelled big with various and con- tending sensations , so that it seemed ...
Sir Walter Scott. CHAPTER III Whence cometh Smith , be he knight , lord , or squire , But from the smith that forged in the fire ? VERSTEGAN . THE armourer's heart swelled big with various and con- tending sensations , so that it seemed ...
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... knights and nobles of his deboshed court . And this I call push- ing our cause warmly . ' ' Warmly , sayst thou ? ' replied the old burgess ; ' why , so warmly , that we shall all die of cold , man , before the porter turn a key to let ...
... knights and nobles of his deboshed court . And this I call push- ing our cause warmly . ' ' Warmly , sayst thou ? ' replied the old burgess ; ' why , so warmly , that we shall all die of cold , man , before the porter turn a key to let ...
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... knights , gentle squires and pages , stout men - at - arms , and others that wear the weapons which we make . It is natural I should like the Ruthvens , the Lindsays , the Ogilvys , the Oliphants , and so many others of our brave and ...
... knights , gentle squires and pages , stout men - at - arms , and others that wear the weapons which we make . It is natural I should like the Ruthvens , the Lindsays , the Ogilvys , the Oliphants , and so many others of our brave and ...
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... knights , more than in fitting embroidered gloves upon maidens . ' ' I will trouble you then no further , and Dorothy shall aid me , though there needs no assistance ; my father's eye and fingers are faithful to his craft : what work he ...
... knights , more than in fitting embroidered gloves upon maidens . ' ' I will trouble you then no further , and Dorothy shall aid me , though there needs no assistance ; my father's eye and fingers are faithful to his craft : what work he ...
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... knight , it is true , and a gentleman of free and true- born blood , as we all know , since Wallace's time , who settled his great - grandsire amongst us . But if he were the proudest nobleman in the land , he is the Provost of Perth ...
... knight , it is true , and a gentleman of free and true- born blood , as we all know , since Wallace's time , who settled his great - grandsire amongst us . But if he were the proudest nobleman in the land , he is the Provost of Perth ...
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Page 203 - 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...
Page 111 - Have a care he does not hear you say so,' said the smith. 'I tell thee, bonnet-maker, that there is more danger in yonder slight wasted anatomy than in twenty stout fellows like yourself.
Page 304 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 49 - 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 460 - What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir...