The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 pages |
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... tribe . The constant intercourse our ancestors maintained with Flanders , from which , according to contem- porary accounts , they derived almost every article which required the least skill in manufacture , must have added greatly to ...
... tribe . The constant intercourse our ancestors maintained with Flanders , from which , according to contem- porary accounts , they derived almost every article which required the least skill in manufacture , must have added greatly to ...
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... tribes of Africa and Asia , lions , tigers , and leopards , which are committed to strict confinement . These also are kept clean , and made as comfortable as circumstances will permit ; and on the whole , it is impossible to conceive ...
... tribes of Africa and Asia , lions , tigers , and leopards , which are committed to strict confinement . These also are kept clean , and made as comfortable as circumstances will permit ; and on the whole , it is impossible to conceive ...
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... tribe or family of the Macdonalds of Clanronald who are called M'Eachen , or Sons of Hector , as claim- ing their descent from a cadet of the house of Clanronald , so named . The father of the Duke of Tarentum was engaged in our affair ...
... tribe or family of the Macdonalds of Clanronald who are called M'Eachen , or Sons of Hector , as claim- ing their descent from a cadet of the house of Clanronald , so named . The father of the Duke of Tarentum was engaged in our affair ...
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... tribes , whom the French unite under the same general appellation , have frequently a most uncouth and savage ap ... tribe from near to the Great Wall of China , to fight against the French under the walls of Paris ! The poor fellow was ...
... tribes , whom the French unite under the same general appellation , have frequently a most uncouth and savage ap ... tribe from near to the Great Wall of China , to fight against the French under the walls of Paris ! The poor fellow was ...
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... tribe , and considered as entitled to use the privileges of that more mature class , is common to many primitive ... tribes recorded by Tacitus . " All business , " says the historian , " whether public or private , is transacted by ...
... tribe , and considered as entitled to use the privileges of that more mature class , is common to many primitive ... tribes recorded by Tacitus . " All business , " says the historian , " whether public or private , is transacted by ...
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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.