The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. With memoir and critical dissertation, المجلدات 1-2Cassell Petter and Galpin, 1870 |
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الصفحة vii
... death - conduct which he lived bitterly to regret as harsh and unfeeling . Our author was born in a house at the head of the College Wynd , which was afterwards pulled down to make room for a part of the New College . He was an ...
... death - conduct which he lived bitterly to regret as harsh and unfeeling . Our author was born in a house at the head of the College Wynd , which was afterwards pulled down to make room for a part of the New College . He was an ...
الصفحة xxiv
... served his views in going abroad , although he deplored the step , and deeply lamented his pre- mature death , which took place , it may be as well to mention at this point of the narrative , in Batavia , xxiv MEMOIR OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... served his views in going abroad , although he deplored the step , and deeply lamented his pre- mature death , which took place , it may be as well to mention at this point of the narrative , in Batavia , xxiv MEMOIR OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
الصفحة xxv
... death , which I learned from Mr Gilbert Elliot's in- formation the day before yesterday . I beg you to express my very sincere sympathy to your respectable parents . I cannot wonder at the excess of their grief at being deprived of a ...
... death , which I learned from Mr Gilbert Elliot's in- formation the day before yesterday . I beg you to express my very sincere sympathy to your respectable parents . I cannot wonder at the excess of their grief at being deprived of a ...
الصفحة xxvi
... death dif- ferent from those you mention , unless that his residence near an artificial pool or lake is supposed to have had some share in producing his disorder - I am , & c . " Scott subsequently edited Leyden's poems , and wrote a ...
... death dif- ferent from those you mention , unless that his residence near an artificial pool or lake is supposed to have had some share in producing his disorder - I am , & c . " Scott subsequently edited Leyden's poems , and wrote a ...
الصفحة xxvii
... death ; and like all who saw Scott close at hand , they adored him , he being one of the very few men who have been heroes to their valets . Here also he became intimate with the famous Mungo Park , then newly returned from his first ...
... death ; and like all who saw Scott close at hand , they adored him , he being one of the very few men who have been heroes to their valets . Here also he became intimate with the famous Mungo Park , then newly returned from his first ...
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ancient appeared arms band bard battle beneath blood bold Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's brave breast brow Buccleuch called CANTO castle chief chieftain clan Clan-Alpine's courser crest Cross Dæmon Dame dark death deer Deloraine Douglas dread Earl Earl of Angus Ellen Ettrick Forest fair Fawdon fear Fiery Cross fire gallant glance glen grace Græme gray hand harp head hear heard heart Highland hill honour horse hounds isle James Jedburgh John king knight Lady Ladye laird lake lance land Loch Katrine Lord loud maid Marmion merry Michael Scott Minstrel morning moss-trooper mountain ne'er noble NOTE o'er Perthshire plaid ride Roderick Dhu round Saint Scotland Scott Scottish Scottish Border seemed sire song sound spear steed stood sword thee thine Thomas Musgrave thou thought tide tower Twas Urisk Virgilius Walter warrior wave wild William word
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الصفحة 86 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
الصفحة 313 - At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had pealed the banner-cry of hell...
الصفحة 103 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
الصفحة 278 - Returned the chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before: — " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
الصفحة 312 - That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams...
الصفحة 3 - Where she, with all her ladies, sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied; For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please ; And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering o'er his aged brain — He tried to tune his harp in vain.
الصفحة 86 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
الصفحة 4 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost : Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.
الصفحة 9 - Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
الصفحة 18 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...