Bothwell: Or The Days on Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 1; Volume 493Parry, 1851 |
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Aggerhuis Archibald the Grim arms arras baldrick beard beautiful Bishop of Dunblane Black Hob Blantyre blessed blue bosom Bothwell's bright brow Calder castellan castle of Bergen cheek Clyde cock and pie Countess dagger Danish dark eyes David Rizzio deep Devil's Nose dost thou Earl of Bothwell Earl's exclaimed face fair fiord flashed Fleur-de-lys Frederick hall hand hath hear heart Heaven hermit Hob of Ormiston Huntly isles King Kirkwall kiss knowest Knuber laughed light Lindesay Lord Bothwell Lord of Bothwell lover Mary Moray muttered never night noble Noltland Nordlander Norse Norway Norwegian ocean Orkney passion poor Poor Konrad Queen replied the Earl rocks Saint Scotland Scots Scottish ship silver Sir Gilbert smile sparkled spirit stood storm stout stranger Sueno sword tears Teviotdale thee thine thou art thou hast towers velvet voice waves Westeray wind woods yonder young
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Page 243 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Page 216 - The tufted grass lines Bothwell's ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesdale's ancient lord, A mimic sovereign, held the festal board.
Page 173 - Weeping ever, weeping low. Drearily throughout the forest Did the winds of autumn blow, And the clouds above were flying, And Scamander rolled below. " Faithless Paris! cruel Paris ! " Thus the poor deserted spake — " Wherefore thus so strangely leave me ? Why thy loving bride forsake ? Why no tender word at parting — Why no kiss, no farewell take? Would that I could but forget thee — Would this throbbing heart might break...
Page 202 - ANXIETY. I FAIN would sing — but will be silent now, For pain is sitting on my lover's brow ; And he would hear me — and, though silent, deem I pleased myself, but little thought of him, While of nought else I think ; to him I give My spirit — and for him alone I live : Bear him within my heart, as mothers bear The last and youngest object of their care.
Page 78 - In that country it is the substitute for the horse, the cow, the goat, and the sheep. From its milk is produced cheese; from its skin, clothing; from its tendons, bowstrings and thread; from its horns, glue; from its bones, spoons; and its flesh furnishes food. In England we have the stag, an animal...
Page 70 - O ! it came o'er mine ear, like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets," It was the music of French-horns, sweetened by distance and by the water, over which it passed, accompanied by a few voices addressing the river and celebrating the bard in the well-known song of Garrick and Arne, — " Thou softflowing Avon !" Nothing could exceed the beauty of some of the cadences, prolonged...
Page 240 - When fixed to one, it safe at anchor rides, And dares the fury of the winds and tides; But losing once that hold, to the wide ocean borne, It drives away at will, to every wave a scorn.
Page 120 - And forsakes th' unequal pair; But when love two hearts engages, The kind God is ever there. Regard not then high blood, nor riches ; You that would his blessings have, Let untaught love guide all your wishes, Hymen should be Cupid's slave.
Page 70 - The shell-formed lyres of ocean ring : And when the moon -went down the sky, Still rose, in dreams, his native plain, And oft he thought his love was by.
Page 110 - I thought my heart had known the whole Of love, but small its knowledge proved; For still the more my longing soul Loves on, itself the while unloved : She stole my heart, myself she stole, And all I prized from me removed; She left me but the fierce control Of vain desires for her I loved.