The Lady of the LakeGinn & Company, 1893 |
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... clans , that is , tribes . The persons composing each of these clans believed themselves all to be descended , at some distant xlii THE HIGHLANDERS AND BORDERERS.
... clans , that is , tribes . The persons composing each of these clans believed themselves all to be descended , at some distant xlii THE HIGHLANDERS AND BORDERERS.
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... clans , living among such high and inaccessible mountains , and paying obedience to no one save their own chiefs , should have been very instrumental in disturbing the tranquility of the kingdom of Scotland . They had many virtues ...
... clans , living among such high and inaccessible mountains , and paying obedience to no one save their own chiefs , should have been very instrumental in disturbing the tranquility of the kingdom of Scotland . They had many virtues ...
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... clans of the north . Military officers , called Wardens , were appointed along the Borders , to keep these unruly people in order ; but as these wardens were generally themselves chiefs of clans , they did not do much to mend the evil ...
... clans of the north . Military officers , called Wardens , were appointed along the Borders , to keep these unruly people in order ; but as these wardens were generally themselves chiefs of clans , they did not do much to mend the evil ...
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... clan , as they were called , and obeying no orders , save those which were given by their chiefs . These chiefs were supposed to represent the first founder of the name or family . The attachment xlviii THE HIGHLANDERS AND BORDERERS.
... clan , as they were called , and obeying no orders , save those which were given by their chiefs . These chiefs were supposed to represent the first founder of the name or family . The attachment xlviii THE HIGHLANDERS AND BORDERERS.
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... clans on the frontiers exposed them to constant war ; so that they thought of nothing else but of collecting bands of their followers together , and making in- cursions , without much distinction , on the English , on the Lowland ( or ...
... clans on the frontiers exposed them to constant war ; so that they thought of nothing else but of collecting bands of their followers together , and making in- cursions , without much distinction , on the English , on the Lowland ( or ...
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Página 151 - 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.
Página 155 - heaven, I change My thought, and hold thy valor light 355 As that of some vain carpet knight, Who ill deserved my courteous care, And whose best boast is but to wear A braid of his fair lady's hair." " I thank thee, Roderick, for the word! 360 It nerves my heart, it steels my sword;
Página 192 - To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-armed archers far and near 400 Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with pike and spear, A twilight forest frowned, Their barded horsemen in the rear The stern battalia crowned.
Página 194 - waving high, And broadswords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in the rear. Onward they drive in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued; 440 Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood ? — 'Down, down,' cried Mar, 'your lances down I Bear back both friend and foe
Página 147 - Where dwell we now? See, rudely swell Crag over crag, and fell o'er fell. Ask we this savage hill we tread For fattened steer or household bread, Ask we for flocks these shingles dry, 150 And well the mountain might reply, — ' To you, as to your sires of yore, Belong the target and claymore!
Página 154 - — " No, stranger, none ! And hear, — to fire thy flagging zeal, — The Saxon cause rests on thy steel; For thus spoke Fate by prophet bred Between the living and the dead: 330 'Who spills the foremost foeman's life, His party conquers in the strife.'" " Then, by my word,
Página 55 - Ours is no sapling, chance-sown by the fountain, Blooming at Beltane, in winter to fade; 410 When the whirlwind has stripped every leaf on the mountain, The more shall Clan Alpine exult in her shade. Moored in the rifted rock, Proof to the tempest's shock, Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow;
Página 5 - Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook; Like crested leader proud and high Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky ; 45 A moment gazed adown the dale, A moment snuffed the tainted gale, A moment listened to the cry, That thickened as the chase drew nigh;
Página 147 - mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in succession gay, Deep waving fields and pastures green, 140 With gentle slopes and groves between: — These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael, The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land.
Página 75 - on her breast 25 Were neither broken nor at rest; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye. The water-lily to the light Her chalice reared of silver bright; 30 The doe awoke, and to the lawn, Begemmed with dew-drops, led her fawn; The gray mist left the mountain-side, The torrent showed its glistening pride;