The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With Memoir and Critical Dissertation, Volume 3J. Nichol, 1857 |
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... Hath caught it , though no human ear , Unsharpened by revenge and fear , Could e'er distinguish horse's clank , Until it reached the castle - bank . Now nigh and plain the sound appears , The warder's challenge now he hears , Then ...
... Hath caught it , though no human ear , Unsharpened by revenge and fear , Could e'er distinguish horse's clank , Until it reached the castle - bank . Now nigh and plain the sound appears , The warder's challenge now he hears , Then ...
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... hath done more desperate deed . Go , haste and rouse thy slumbering son ; Time calls , and I must needs be gone . ' 24 Nought of his sire's ungenerous part Polluted Wilfrid's gentle heart ; A heart , too soft from early life To hold ...
... hath done more desperate deed . Go , haste and rouse thy slumbering son ; Time calls , and I must needs be gone . ' 24 Nought of his sire's ungenerous part Polluted Wilfrid's gentle heart ; A heart , too soft from early life To hold ...
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... hath strayed , Yet longed for Roslin's magic glade ? Who , wandering there , hath sought to change Even for that vale so stern and strange , Where Cartland's crags , fantastic rent , Through her green copse like spires are sent ? Yet ...
... hath strayed , Yet longed for Roslin's magic glade ? Who , wandering there , hath sought to change Even for that vale so stern and strange , Where Cartland's crags , fantastic rent , Through her green copse like spires are sent ? Yet ...
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... hath thy sire my trust betrayed ? If so ' - Ere , starting from his dream , That turned upon a gentler theme , Wilfrid had roused him to reply , Bertram sprung forward , shouting high , ' Whate'er thou art , thou now shalt stand ! ' And ...
... hath thy sire my trust betrayed ? If so ' - Ere , starting from his dream , That turned upon a gentler theme , Wilfrid had roused him to reply , Bertram sprung forward , shouting high , ' Whate'er thou art , thou now shalt stand ! ' And ...
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... hath said that Denzil's name From Rokeby's band was razed with shame .'- ' A shame I owe that hot O'Neale , Who told his knight , in peevish zeal , Of my marauding on the clowns , Of Calverley and Bradford downs . F I reck not . In a ...
... hath said that Denzil's name From Rokeby's band was razed with shame .'- ' A shame I owe that hot O'Neale , Who told his knight , in peevish zeal , Of my marauding on the clowns , Of Calverley and Bradford downs . F I reck not . In a ...
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Page 63 - And by your palfrey good, I read you for a ranger sworn To keep the king's greenwood." " A Ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Page 287 - Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round.
Page 288 - Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 266 - Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Page 72 - The Baron of Ravensworth prances in pride, And he views his domains upon Arkindale side. The mere for his net and the land for his game, The chase for the wild and the park for the tame : Yet the fish of the lake and the deer of the vale Are less free to Lord Dacre than Allen-aDale!
Page 73 - shows gallanter still ; 'Tis the blue vault of heaven, with its crescent so pale, And with all its bright spangles!
Page 287 - Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, would raise A minster to her Maker's praise : Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and...
Page 100 - The sultry summer day is done. The western hills have hid the sun, But mountain peak and village spire Retain reflection of his fire.
Page 289 - Scarba's isle, whose tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreken's roar, And lonely Colonsay ; — Scenes sung by him who sings no more ! His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! XII.
Page 190 - ... former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.