The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 pages |
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... Scotland , or their ancient and beautiful churches . But we look in vain for antiquity in the houses of the middling rank ; for the mansions of the country gen- tlemen , and the opulent burghers of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen ...
... Scotland , or their ancient and beautiful churches . But we look in vain for antiquity in the houses of the middling rank ; for the mansions of the country gen- tlemen , and the opulent burghers of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen ...
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... Scotland at the same period . But yet , to return to the point from which I set out , there is something in the height of the houses , and the mode of turning their gables toward the street , which involuntarily reminds me of what the ...
... Scotland at the same period . But yet , to return to the point from which I set out , there is something in the height of the houses , and the mode of turning their gables toward the street , which involuntarily reminds me of what the ...
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... Scotland . The colour of this mantle is indeed different in Scotland it was usually tartan , and in Flanders it is uniformly black . The inhabitants say they derive the use of it from the Spaniards , of whose dominions their country was ...
... Scotland . The colour of this mantle is indeed different in Scotland it was usually tartan , and in Flanders it is uniformly black . The inhabitants say they derive the use of it from the Spaniards , of whose dominions their country was ...
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... Scotland , when , after the victory at Dunbar he ventured to remind him of his pretensions , " N'avons nous autre chose a faire que avous renumeys gagner ? " Such an answer we might have returned to Louis XVIII . , had we inclined to ...
... Scotland , when , after the victory at Dunbar he ventured to remind him of his pretensions , " N'avons nous autre chose a faire que avous renumeys gagner ? " Such an answer we might have returned to Louis XVIII . , had we inclined to ...
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... Scotland , disgusted with the poverty and ferocity of their allies , without having had any opportunity to become wealthy at the expense of the English , and compelled before their departure to give satisfaction for the insolencies ...
... Scotland , disgusted with the poverty and ferocity of their allies , without having had any opportunity to become wealthy at the expense of the English , and compelled before their departure to give satisfaction for the insolencies ...
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Page 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Page 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Page 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 295 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Page 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Page 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Page 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 300 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.