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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... presents a melancholy lon . Highly esteemed by the ancient nobility , a scene . Scotland , through all its extent ... present in court , when the Earl of Angus was highly praised for strength and valour . It may be , " answered Spens ...
... presents a melancholy lon . Highly esteemed by the ancient nobility , a scene . Scotland , through all its extent ... present in court , when the Earl of Angus was highly praised for strength and valour . It may be , " answered Spens ...
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... present , there- who delights rather to perplex and frighten man- fore , taking the advice of an old Scottish rhymer , kind , than either to serve , or seriously to hurt them . let us This is the Esprit Follet of the French ; and ...
... present , there- who delights rather to perplex and frighten man- fore , taking the advice of an old Scottish rhymer , kind , than either to serve , or seriously to hurt them . let us This is the Esprit Follet of the French ; and ...
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... present , authorize them to claim some respect from the public . But it is not the Editor's present intention to enter upon a his- tory of Border poetry ; a subject of great difficulty , and which the extent of his information does not ...
... present , authorize them to claim some respect from the public . But it is not the Editor's present intention to enter upon a his- tory of Border poetry ; a subject of great difficulty , and which the extent of his information does not ...
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... present on the ground , or can be found within our bounds , then , or at any tyme therefter , and present him to his majestie , or to his justice , to be punished according to his merit ; or , if we cannot find him , we shall in- timate ...
... present on the ground , or can be found within our bounds , then , or at any tyme therefter , and present him to his majestie , or to his justice , to be punished according to his merit ; or , if we cannot find him , we shall in- timate ...
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... present appear- ance , has a claim to very high antiquity . It has been preserved by tradition ; and is , perhaps , the most authentic instance of a long and very old poem , ex- clusively thus preserved . It is only known to a few old ...
... present appear- ance , has a claim to very high antiquity . It has been preserved by tradition ; and is , perhaps , the most authentic instance of a long and very old poem , ex- clusively thus preserved . It is only known to a few old ...
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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.
Page 141 - O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says,
Page 195 - O no, O no, Thomas," she said, That name does not belang to me ; I am but the queen of fair Elfland, That am hither come to visit thee.
Page 46 - Now, ever alake ! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 166 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
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...