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| by Walter Scott, James Logie Robertson
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| by Walter Scott, Sr., George B. Aiton
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 | Bissau - Page 201When the workmen were engaged in erecting the ancient church of Old Deer, in Aberdeenshire, upon a small hill called Bissau, they were surprised to ... |
| Colonel Hill - Page 347In the end of December he went to Colonel Hill, who commanded the garrison in Fort William, to take the oaths of allegiance to the government; ... |
| Salamanca - Page 213were public schools, where magic, or rather the sciences supposed to involve its mysteries, were regularly taught, at Toledo, Seville, and Salamanca. ... |
More | Kendal - Page 121Ye English warden lords, of you Demands the Ladye of Buccleuch, Why, 'gainst the truce of Border tide, In hostile guise ye dare to ride, With Kendal ... |
| Edinburgh - Page 199On the morn they past to Edinburgh with the King, who was very sad and dolorous of the slaughter of the Laird of Cessfoord, and many other gentlemen ...more pages: 10 97 200 254 |
| Venice - Page 211He wrote a commentary upon Aristotle, printed at Venice in 1496 ; and several treatises upon natural philosophy, from which he appears to have been ...more pages: 217 |
| Dundee - Page 106Low as that tide has ebb'd with me, It still reflects to Memory's eye The hour my brave, my only boy, Fell by the side of great Dundee.1 Why, ... |
| Padua - Page 47Of noble race the Ladye came, Her father was a clerk of fame, Of Bethune's line of Picardie:1 He learn'd the art that none may name, In Padua, ... |
| Jerusalem - Page 278and defeated the Christians in many combats, till he was finally routed and slain, in a conflict with King Baldwin, under the walls of Jerusalem. ... |
| Pembroke - Page 313they were successful in repelling the invaders ; and the following verses are supposed to celebrate a tlefent of CLARE, Eurl of Slriguil and Pembroke, ... |
| Montpelier - Page 225Sir Kenelm Digby, in a discourse upon the cure by sympathy, pronounced at Montpelier before an assembly of nobles and learned men, translated into ... |
| Naples - Page 243Among such I am disposed to reckon the following whimsical account of the foundation of Naples, containing the origin of the earthquakes with which it ...more pages: 222 |
| Berlin - Page 297THE original of these verses occurs in a collection of German popular songs, entitled, Sammlung Deutschen Volkslieder, Berlin, 1807, published by ... |
| New York - Page 166Rutherford, late of New York, in a letter to the editor, soon after these songs were published, quoted, when upwards of eighty years old, ... |
| York - Page 126Thus Richard III. acquired his well- known epithet, The Boar nf York. In the violent satire on Cardinal Wolsey, written by Roy, commonly, ... |
| London - Page 123Or straight they sound their warrison,3 And storm and spoil thy garrison : And this fair boy, to London led, Shall good King Edward's page be bred. ... |
| Paris - Page 215The first stamp shook every steeple in Paris, and caused all the bells to ring ; the second threw down three of the towers of the palace ; and the ... |
| Zurich - Page 290With clarion loud, and banner proud, From Zurich on the lake, In martial pomp and fair array, Their onward march they make. ... |
| Brussels - Page 205of Narbonne, of Lymens, of Fongans, of Besyere, of Tholous, or of Carcasonne, laden with cloth of Brussels, or peltre ware comynge fro the fayres, ... |
| Perth - Page 47The Earl of Gowrie, slain at Perth, in 1600, pretended, during his studies in Italy, to have acquired some knowledge of the cabala, by which, he said, ... |
Popular passagesTHE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of, Border chivalry; For, well-a-day! Page 27 BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him well... Page 155 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... Page 55 Diamonds on the brake are gleaming : And foresters have busy been, To track the buck in thicket green ; Now we come to chant our lay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay." Waken, lords and ladies gay, To the greenwood haste away ; We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot and tall of size ; We can show the marks he made, When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed ; You shall see him brought to bay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay. Page 333 In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime : Steady of heart, and stout of hand, As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been, By England's King, and Scotland's Queen. Page 48 Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle ; Each one the holy vault doth hold — But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St. Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds The dirge of lovely Rosabelle, [sung, XXIV. Page 174 That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? Page 181 Tis not because the ring they ride, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my sire the wine will chide If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle. Page 172 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood... Page 155 Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide ; All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied. On the right, Striden-edge round... Page 312 LessContents | 9 | | | | | 255 | | | | | 267 | | | | | 278 | | | | | 284 | | | | | 290 | | | | | 297 | | | |
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