The Lady of the LakeT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1896 - 191 páginas |
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Página iii
... king and coun- try , and of strongly marked personal characteristics . " My birth was neither distinguished nor sordid , " Scott himself wrote . " According to the prejudices of my country it was esteemed gentle , as I was connected ...
... king and coun- try , and of strongly marked personal characteristics . " My birth was neither distinguished nor sordid , " Scott himself wrote . " According to the prejudices of my country it was esteemed gentle , as I was connected ...
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... King George , whatever his follies , had grace and wit enough to put a true value on his sub- ject's worth , and to distinguish him by special favor of friendship , and the baronetcy . But the end of Sir Walter's prosperity was fore ...
... King George , whatever his follies , had grace and wit enough to put a true value on his sub- ject's worth , and to distinguish him by special favor of friendship , and the baronetcy . But the end of Sir Walter's prosperity was fore ...
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... King with the wandering knight , Fitz - James , when he winds his bugle to summon his attendants . He was probably thinking of the lively but somewhat licen- tious old ballad in which the dénouement of a royal intrigue takes place as ...
... King with the wandering knight , Fitz - James , when he winds his bugle to summon his attendants . He was probably thinking of the lively but somewhat licen- tious old ballad in which the dénouement of a royal intrigue takes place as ...
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... King James could actually have ridden from the banks of Loch Vennachar to Stirling Castle within the time supposed in the poem , and had the pleasure to satisfy myself that it was quite practicable . After a considerable delay , " The ...
... King James could actually have ridden from the banks of Loch Vennachar to Stirling Castle within the time supposed in the poem , and had the pleasure to satisfy myself that it was quite practicable . After a considerable delay , " The ...
Página 87
... King's own garden grows ; And when I place it in my hair , Allan , a bard is bound to swear He ne'er saw coronet so fair . " Then playfully the chaplet wild She wreathed in her dark locks , and smiled . X. Her smile , her speech , with ...
... King's own garden grows ; And when I place it in my hair , Allan , a bard is bound to swear He ne'er saw coronet so fair . " Then playfully the chaplet wild She wreathed in her dark locks , and smiled . X. Her smile , her speech , with ...
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Página 257 - 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...
Página 213 - Then each at once his falchion drew, Each on the ground his scabbard threw, Each looked to sun, and stream, and plain, As what they ne'er might see again ; Then, foot, and point, and eye opposed, In dubious strife they darkly closed.
Página 215 - Then gleamed aloft his dagger bright ! But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game : For, while the dagger gleamed on high, Reeled soul and sense, reeled brain and eye. Down came the blow ! but in the heath The erring blade found bloodless sheath.
Página 207 - 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.
Página 208 - Fitz-James looked round — yet scarce believed The witness that his sight received ; Such apparition well might seem Delusion of a dreadful dream. Sir Roderick in suspense he eyed, And to his look the Chief replied, " Fear nought — nay, that I need not say — But — doubt not aught from mine array.
Página 204 - For fattened steer or household bread, Ask we for flocks these shingles dry, And well the mountain might reply, — ' To you, as to your sires of yore, Belong the target and claymore ! VIT. I give you shelter in my breast, Your own good blades must win the rest.
Página 41 - The antlered monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dewdrops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high...
Página 206 - Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe ; From shingles...
Página 48 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle...
Página 149 - But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove — By firm resolve to conquer love...