The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 2Little, Brown & Company; Shepard, Clark and Brown, 1857 - Poetry, English |
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... round the northern coast of Scotland . There is something peculiarly exhilarating in a tour undertaken im- mediately after some strenuous and successful literary effort . The mind continues cheerfully to chew the cud of its recent ...
... round the northern coast of Scotland . There is something peculiarly exhilarating in a tour undertaken im- mediately after some strenuous and successful literary effort . The mind continues cheerfully to chew the cud of its recent ...
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... rounded Cape Wrath ; entered the marvellous cave of Smowe ; admired the wild serrated mountains of Assynt ; wandered up the barren sides of Loch Corriskin in Skye , the darkest and most terrific of Scotland's lochs ; saw MacAllister's ...
... rounded Cape Wrath ; entered the marvellous cave of Smowe ; admired the wild serrated mountains of Assynt ; wandered up the barren sides of Loch Corriskin in Skye , the darkest and most terrific of Scotland's lochs ; saw MacAllister's ...
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... round , And while you frolic light as they , Too short shall seem the Summer day . To mute and to material things New life revolving Summer brings ; The genial call dead Nature hears , And in her glory reappears . But oh ! my country's ...
... round , And while you frolic light as they , Too short shall seem the Summer day . To mute and to material things New life revolving Summer brings ; The genial call dead Nature hears , And in her glory reappears . But oh ! my country's ...
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... They gleam through Spenser's elfin dream , And mix in Milton's heavenly theme ; And Dryden , in immortal strain , Had raised the Table Round again , 243 250 260 270 But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil 1. 9 ت ] MARMION .
... They gleam through Spenser's elfin dream , And mix in Milton's heavenly theme ; And Dryden , in immortal strain , Had raised the Table Round again , 243 250 260 270 But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil 1. 9 ت ] MARMION .
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... round it sweep , In yellow lustre shone . The warriors on the turrets high , Moving athwart the evening sky , 1 The New Forest in Hampshire , anciently so called . — 2 William Rufus . Seemed forms of giant height : Their armour , as 1 ...
... round it sweep , In yellow lustre shone . The warriors on the turrets high , Moving athwart the evening sky , 1 The New Forest in Hampshire , anciently so called . — 2 William Rufus . Seemed forms of giant height : Their armour , as 1 ...
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Abbess ancient Angus arms array band battle battle of Flodden beneath bold called CANTO castle Clare cross dark death deep Don Roderick Douglas Earl Earl of Mar Edinburgh English Ettrick Forest fair fame fate fear fell fight fire Fitz-Eustace Flodden foes gallant genius grave Guenever Guy Mannering hall hand hath heard heart Heaven hill holy Holy Island honour horse James James IV King King's knight Lady land light Lindesay Lindisfarne Lockhart look Lord Marmion loud minstrel Monarch monks mountain ne'er never noble Norham Northumberland NOTE o'er Palmer pass Perchance proud romance round royal rude ruins Saint Saint Hilda scarce scene Scotland Scott Scottish Scottish March seemed shield Sir Launcelot sound spear squire steed stood sword tale Tamworth Tantallon tell thee thou thought tide tower Twas Tweed wall Whitby Whitby's wild Wilton Zaragoza
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Page 190 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 133 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Page 131 - Eske river where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he entered the Netherby Hall, Among bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all.
Page 176 - Not lighter does the swallow skim Along the smooth lake's level brim : And when Lord Marmion reached his band, He halts, and turns with clenched hand, And shout of loud defiance pours, And shook his gauntlet at the towers. " Horse ! horse ! " the Douglas cried, " and chase I * But soon he reined his fury's pace : " A royal messenger he came, Though most unworthy of the name.
Page 303 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 191 - Or injured Constance, bathes my head !" Then, as remembrance rose, — " Speak not to me of shrift or prayer ! I must redress her woes. Short space, few words, are mine to spare ; Forgive and listen, gentle Clare !" — " Alas !" she said, " the while,— O think of your immortal weal ! In vain for Constance is your zeal ; She- died at Holy Isle.
Page 71 - Where shall the traitor rest, He, the deceiver, Who could win maiden's breast, Ruin, and leave her? In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying; Eleu loro There shall he be lying.
Page 64 - Of witches' spells, of warriors' arms ; Of patriot battles, won of old By Wallace wight and Bruce the bold ; Of later fields of feud and fight, When, pouring from their Highland height, The Scottish clans, in headlong sway, Had swept the scarlet ranks away. While...
Page 155 - HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We '11 keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even, heathen yet, the savage Dane At lol more deep the mead did drain, High on the beach his galleys drew, And feasted all his pirate crew ; Then in his low and pine-built hall, Where...
Page 175 - Douglas' head ! And first, I tell thee, haughty Peer, He, who does England's message here, Although the meanest in her state, May well, proud Angus, be thy mate : And, Douglas, more I tell thee here, Even in thy pitch of pride, Here in thy hold, thy vassals near...