Notices and Anecdotes Illustrative of the Incidents, Characters, and Scenery Described in the Novels and Romances of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: With a Complete Glossary for All His WorksBaudry's european library, 1833 - 426 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα ii
... Castles . 157 The English Border . 159 Moss - troopers . . 160 Present State of the Borders . 163 The Peasantry . 165 Cooking Utensils . 166 GYPSIES . Elopement of the Countess Cassilis with Johnnie Faa .. Glamour . Religion of the ...
... Castles . 157 The English Border . 159 Moss - troopers . . 160 Present State of the Borders . 163 The Peasantry . 165 Cooking Utensils . 166 GYPSIES . Elopement of the Countess Cassilis with Johnnie Faa .. Glamour . Religion of the ...
Σελίδα iv
... . Smailholm Tower .. THE ABBOT . Characters .. KENILWORTH . 320 321 323 ib . 325 326 328 Characters . 229 Kenilworth Castle .. 331 Fête Champêtre . 333 THE PIRATE . Critical Remarks .. Characters . THE FORTUNES iv CONTENTS .
... . Smailholm Tower .. THE ABBOT . Characters .. KENILWORTH . 320 321 323 ib . 325 326 328 Characters . 229 Kenilworth Castle .. 331 Fête Champêtre . 333 THE PIRATE . Critical Remarks .. Characters . THE FORTUNES iv CONTENTS .
Σελίδα v
... Castle of the Peak .. Tournament at Peveril . Jeffrey Hudson . ST . RONAN'S WELL . Meg Dods . • REDGAUNTLET . Critical Remarks .. Sir Robert Grierson . Redgauntlet Horse - shoe . TALES OF THE CRUSADERS . Groundwork of THE BETROTHED ...
... Castle of the Peak .. Tournament at Peveril . Jeffrey Hudson . ST . RONAN'S WELL . Meg Dods . • REDGAUNTLET . Critical Remarks .. Sir Robert Grierson . Redgauntlet Horse - shoe . TALES OF THE CRUSADERS . Groundwork of THE BETROTHED ...
Σελίδα vi
... CASTLE DANGEROUS . New Introduction , by SIR WALTER SCOTT , sent from Naples . in February , 1832 . 375 COMPLETE GLOSSARY to SIR WALTER SCOTT's Novels and Romances . 391 HISTORICAL NOTICES AND ANECDOTES . THE ANCIENT SCOTS . To vi CONTENTS ...
... CASTLE DANGEROUS . New Introduction , by SIR WALTER SCOTT , sent from Naples . in February , 1832 . 375 COMPLETE GLOSSARY to SIR WALTER SCOTT's Novels and Romances . 391 HISTORICAL NOTICES AND ANECDOTES . THE ANCIENT SCOTS . To vi CONTENTS ...
Σελίδα 6
... castles their former rude , but hospitable magnificence , which increased their retainers , and strengthened their power , secured their safety , or enabled them to prosecute their deadly feuds . The people were divided into factions by ...
... castles their former rude , but hospitable magnificence , which increased their retainers , and strengthened their power , secured their safety , or enabled them to prosecute their deadly feuds . The people were divided into factions by ...
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Σελίδα 107 - This whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the one end all along the roof to the other, and which gave it the name of the Cage, and by chance there happened to be two stones at a small distance from one another, in the side next the precipice, resembling the pillars of a chimney, where the fire was VOL.
Σελίδα 302 - Love wont to gae ! 1 leant my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree ; But first it bow'd, and syne it brak, Sae my true Love did lichtly me. O waly waly, but love be bonny A little time while it is new ; But when 'tis auld, it waxeth cauld And fades awa
Σελίδα 107 - ... levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees, growing naturally on their own roots, some stakes fixed in the earth, which, with the, trees, were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs...
Σελίδα 314 - Upon Philiphaugh he lost, in one defeat, the fruit of six splendid victories: nor was he again able effectually to make head, in Scotland, against the covenanted cause.
Σελίδα 158 - Jedburgh, and of several others which were thus destroyed, bear a wonderful disproportion in extent to any which were erected in subsequent times. Nay, the Castle of Jedburgh was so strongly and solidly constructed, and the Scottish so unskilful in the art of destruction, even where there was no military opposition, that it was thought it could not be destroyed without such time and labour as would render it necessary to impose a tax of two pennies on every hearth in Scotland to defray the expense....
Σελίδα 351 - He probably did not long remain in slavery ; for at the beginning of the civil war he was made a captain in the royal army, and in 1644 attended the queen to France, where he remained till the Restoration. At last, upon suspicion of his being privy to the Popish plot, he was taken up in 1682, and confined in the gate-house, Westminster, where he ended his life, in the sixty-third year of his age.
Σελίδα 348 - Cave, which ranges between two vast limestone rocks, and on the east is nearly 200 feet in depth. On the west it is skirted by the precipice which frowns over the great cavern, and rears its abrupt head to the height of 260 feet.
Σελίδα 342 - It is certainly a great blessing for any prince to have experienced adversity as well as prosperity, good as well as evil, and especially if the good outweighs the evil, as it did in our master.
Σελίδα 203 - The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild in his appearance. Thus Cleland, in his satire against the Highlanders, compares them to " Faunes, or Brownies, if ye will, Or Satyres come from Atlas Hill.