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Abbot Aberdeen Æneid altar ambassador ancient Andrew Cant anecdote appears Archbishop asked ballad Ben Jonson Bishop Bishop of Glasgow Bondman Bruce called Cant century chanoine Charles Christian church cried DAVID MALLET death devil died drink Earl Edinb Edinburgh edit England English fair Fairy father fool foot France freedom gentleman Geordy George Buchanan George Peele Glasgow granted hand hath Hist honour horse John King James king's Lady land Latin learned Legatus letters lived Lond lonius Lord merks Michael Scot monks Mordred never noble nose Paris parish Parliament Peerage Peerage of Scotland perhaps poet preach preserved printed reign Robert rock Saint says scarcely Scot Scotish Scotland Serfs Sir Henry Wotton stone tell thee thing thou Thralls told town Trouvères Univ verses wife William William the Lyon writes
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Page 26 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 138 - Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die ; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
Page 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished , They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 27 - For ther as wont to walken was an elf, Ther walketh now the lymytour hymself In undermeles and in morwenynges, And seyth his matyns and his hooly thynges As he gooth in his lymytacioun.
Page 168 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 217 - Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom , and then departed : — Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years all winters, — war within themselves to wage.
Page 151 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Page 28 - And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Page 66 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 83 - That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bigbone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals, which had been created for the use of the Indians...