The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. With memoir and critical dissertation, المجلدات 1-2Cassell Petter and Galpin, 1870 |
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الصفحة xvi
... knew his then impetuous disposi- tion , had expected some fearful explosion , and were glad to see him sitting down calmly to his books again . He says himself , however , that he was broken - xvi MEMOIR OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
... knew his then impetuous disposi- tion , had expected some fearful explosion , and were glad to see him sitting down calmly to his books again . He says himself , however , that he was broken - xvi MEMOIR OF SIR WALTER SCOTT .
الصفحة xviii
... knew were as immortal and as pure as those waters or that sunfire ? We cannot believe it ! But , at all events , he HAD pleasure the most exquisite and varied while collecting their materials , amongst the mosses , or by the fire- sides ...
... knew were as immortal and as pure as those waters or that sunfire ? We cannot believe it ! But , at all events , he HAD pleasure the most exquisite and varied while collecting their materials , amongst the mosses , or by the fire- sides ...
الصفحة 3
... knew Of the old warriors of Buccleuch ; And , would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an old man's strain , Though stiff his hand , his voice though weak , He thought , even yet , the sooth to speak , That , if she loved the harp to ...
... knew Of the old warriors of Buccleuch ; And , would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an old man's strain , Though stiff his hand , his voice though weak , He thought , even yet , the sooth to speak , That , if she loved the harp to ...
الصفحة 8
... knew her mother dread , Before Lord Cranstoun she should wed , Would see her on her dying bed . 11 Of noble race the Ladye came ; Her father was a clerk of fame , Of Bethune's line of Picardie : ' He learned the art , that none may name ...
... knew her mother dread , Before Lord Cranstoun she should wed , Would see her on her dying bed . 11 Of noble race the Ladye came ; Her father was a clerk of fame , Of Bethune's line of Picardie : ' He learned the art , that none may name ...
الصفحة 9
... From the groan of the wind - swung oak , From the sullen echo of the rock , From the voice of the coming storm , A precipitous bank of earth . The Ladye knew it well ! It was the Spirit 1. ] THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . 6.
... From the groan of the wind - swung oak , From the sullen echo of the rock , From the voice of the coming storm , A precipitous bank of earth . The Ladye knew it well ! It was the Spirit 1. ] THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . 6.
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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...