Waverley Novels: The monastery. The abbot

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R. Cadell, 1844

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الصفحة 381 - As when in tumults rise the ignoble crowd, Mad are their motions and their tongues are loud ; And stones and brands in rattling volleys fly, And all the rustic arms that fury can supply. If then some grave and pious man appear, They hush their noise and lend a listening ear ; He soothes with sober words their angry mood, And quenches their innate desire of blood.
الصفحة 208 - If the law Find me, and then condemn me for't, some wenches, Some honest-hearted maids, will sing my dirge, And tell to memory my death was noble, Dying almost a martyr.
الصفحة 375 - Sir, this is a busy day with us. We cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's Day."' The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not.
الصفحة 375 - The church stood in my way, and I took my horse and my company, and went thither (I thought I should have found a great company in the church), and when I came there the church doore was fast locked.
الصفحة 219 - Shafton when he looked elsewhere, and were dropped at once when they encountered his, that she was irresistible ! In fine, the affectionate delicacy of her whole demeanour, joined to the promptitude and boldness she had so lately evinced, tended to ennoble the services she had rendered, as if some sweet engaging Grace Put on some clothes to come abroad, And took a waiter's place.
الصفحة 550 - She repented nothing but (when the Lords and others at Inverness came in the morning from the watch) that she was not a man, to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
الصفحة 227 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
الصفحة 278 - We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ; not in the root, but in the stem; for we know not which is the mean man that did rise above the vulgar.

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