The Waverley Anecdotes: Illustrative of the Incidents, Characters, and Scenery, Described in the Novels and Romances, of Sir Walter ScottJ. Cochrane and J. McCrone, 1833 - 468 σελίδες |
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... ground . Never was the military character of Scotland bet- ter pourtrayed than in the following lines by Scott- " And , oh ! lov'd warriors of the ministrel land ; Yonder your bonnets nod , your tartans wave ! The ragged form may mark ...
... ground . Never was the military character of Scotland bet- ter pourtrayed than in the following lines by Scott- " And , oh ! lov'd warriors of the ministrel land ; Yonder your bonnets nod , your tartans wave ! The ragged form may mark ...
Σελίδα 34
... ground which goes by the name of the little Canglar , upon the east side of a small brook called Sauchieburn , about three miles southward from Stirling , and one mile from the famous field of Bannockburn . The royal army was drawn up ...
... ground which goes by the name of the little Canglar , upon the east side of a small brook called Sauchieburn , about three miles southward from Stirling , and one mile from the famous field of Bannockburn . The royal army was drawn up ...
Σελίδα 35
... ground , but pushed the first and se- cond lines of the royalists back to the third . The small courage James possessed forsaking him at the first onset , he put spurs to his horse , and gal- loped off with a view to get aboard Wood's ...
... ground , but pushed the first and se- cond lines of the royalists back to the third . The small courage James possessed forsaking him at the first onset , he put spurs to his horse , and gal- loped off with a view to get aboard Wood's ...
Σελίδα 52
... ground , that if the party should die in the torture , the judges were liable for murder , or at least severely answerable . " Fountainhall's Chronological Notes . the prisoner till he , the Justice general , was 52 WAVERLEY ANECDOTES . 22.
... ground , that if the party should die in the torture , the judges were liable for murder , or at least severely answerable . " Fountainhall's Chronological Notes . the prisoner till he , the Justice general , was 52 WAVERLEY ANECDOTES . 22.
Σελίδα 62
... ground was left for diversity of sentiment ; and various causes united in producing a state of the public mind which gave rise to the most memorable events , -events which powerfully affected our civil condition , and the complexion of ...
... ground was left for diversity of sentiment ; and various causes united in producing a state of the public mind which gave rise to the most memorable events , -events which powerfully affected our civil condition , and the complexion of ...
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Σελίδα 301 - Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm ? Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck : Are not you he ? Puck.
Σελίδα 285 - The bittern clamoured from the moss, The wind blew loud and shrill; Yet the craggy pathway she did cross, To the eiry Beacon Hill. "I watched her steps, and silent came Where she sat her on a stone; — No watchman stood by the dreary flame, It burned all alone. "The second night I kept her in sight, Till to the fire she came, And, by Mary's might! an armed Knight Stood by the lonely flame.
Σελίδα 267 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Σελίδα 283 - It was a barren scene, and wild, Where naked cliffs were rudely piled; But ever and anon between Lay velvet tufts of loveliest green; And well the lonely infant knew Recesses where the wall-flower grew, And honey-suckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruined wall.
Σελίδα 82 - Their fear kythed in this, that multitudes breaking up cellars, did cast themselves down there fearing the enemies' approach. The provost came into one house amongst many, where there were a number lying panting, and desired them to rise for their own defence. They answered their hearts were away, they would fight no more although they should be killed. And then although they had been both willing and stout, yet they were unable to resist, for they had casten all their armes from them by the way,...
Σελίδα x - Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free ; Patient of toil ; serene amidst alarms ; Inflexible in faith ; invincible in arms.
Σελίδα 227 - ... the humblest in his conversation and habit, and the most painful and indefatigable to win over any man to his side, that he thought capable of doing him either...
Σελίδα 116 - From seven years of age till thirty he never grew taller ; but after thirty he shot up to three feet nine inches, and there fixed. Jeffery became a considerable part of the entertainment of the court. Sir William Davenant wrote a poem called Jeffreidos, on a battle between him and a turkey-cock ;3 and in 1638 was published a very small book called the New Year's Gift...
Σελίδα 343 - 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 117 - 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.