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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... considerably during the present . This is to be attri- buted to the alteration and improvement of the English , for the Scottish were more stationary ; nor is there in the language a material difference between the compositions of James ...
... considerably during the present . This is to be attri- buted to the alteration and improvement of the English , for the Scottish were more stationary ; nor is there in the language a material difference between the compositions of James ...
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... considerably added to the advantages of the Douglasses over their enemies ; and ren- dered it easy to bear them down , as they struggled breathless and disordered out of the heads of the lanes . This was not the only piece of good ...
... considerably added to the advantages of the Douglasses over their enemies ; and ren- dered it easy to bear them down , as they struggled breathless and disordered out of the heads of the lanes . This was not the only piece of good ...
Σελίδα 20
... considerable army , had advanced to the Torwood within a few miles of him . The only alternative was , either to make his escape by going aboard Admiral Wood's fleet , which was stationed in the river Forth , near Alloa , or to engage ...
... considerable army , had advanced to the Torwood within a few miles of him . The only alternative was , either to make his escape by going aboard Admiral Wood's fleet , which was stationed in the river Forth , near Alloa , or to engage ...
Σελίδα 23
... considerable ; for the action lasted a good space , and was well maintained by the combatants on each side ; several of high rank fell upon the side of the royalists , among whom were the Earl of Glencairn , the Lords Temple , Erskine ...
... considerable ; for the action lasted a good space , and was well maintained by the combatants on each side ; several of high rank fell upon the side of the royalists , among whom were the Earl of Glencairn , the Lords Temple , Erskine ...
Σελίδα 48
... considerable light on many of the incidents of the Scottish Novels , without a knowledge of which some of the most interesting incidents might be obscured , to such as may not have perused the history of these eventful times . The Earl ...
... considerable light on many of the incidents of the Scottish Novels , without a knowledge of which some of the most interesting incidents might be obscured , to such as may not have perused the history of these eventful times . The Earl ...
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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.