The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With Memoir and Critical Dissertation, Volume 3J. Nichol, 1857 |
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... hold a guest , The emotions of whose troubled breast , In wild and strange confusion driven , Rival the flitting rack of heaven . Ere sleep stern OSWALD'S senses tied , Oft had he changed his weary side , Composed his limbs , and vainly ...
... hold a guest , The emotions of whose troubled breast , In wild and strange confusion driven , Rival the flitting rack of heaven . Ere sleep stern OSWALD'S senses tied , Oft had he changed his weary side , Composed his limbs , and vainly ...
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... soft from early life To hold with fortune needful strife . His sire , while yet a hardier race Of numerous sons were Wycliffe's grace , On Wilfrid set contemptuous brand , For feeble heart and 18 [ CANTO SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS .
... soft from early life To hold with fortune needful strife . His sire , while yet a hardier race Of numerous sons were Wycliffe's grace , On Wilfrid set contemptuous brand , For feeble heart and 18 [ CANTO SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS .
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... . Just as the dangerous stretch he makes By Heaven , his faithless footstool shakes ! Beneath his tottering bulk it bends , It sways , it loosens , it descends ! And downward holds its headlong way , Crashing o'er rock II . ] 37 ROKEBY .
... . Just as the dangerous stretch he makes By Heaven , his faithless footstool shakes ! Beneath his tottering bulk it bends , It sways , it loosens , it descends ! And downward holds its headlong way , Crashing o'er rock II . ] 37 ROKEBY .
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With Memoir and Critical Dissertation Sir Walter Scott George Gilfillan. And downward holds its headlong way , Crashing o'er rock and copsewood spray . Loud thunders shake the echoing dell ! - Fell it alone ? -alone it fell . Just on the ...
With Memoir and Critical Dissertation Sir Walter Scott George Gilfillan. And downward holds its headlong way , Crashing o'er rock and copsewood spray . Loud thunders shake the echoing dell ! - Fell it alone ? -alone it fell . Just on the ...
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... hold ; But yet of Bertram sought to know The apparition's form and show.- The power within the guilty breast , Oft vanquished , never quite suppress'd , That unsubdued and lurking lies To take the felon by surprise , M And force him ...
... hold ; But yet of Bertram sought to know The apparition's form and show.- The power within the guilty breast , Oft vanquished , never quite suppress'd , That unsubdued and lurking lies To take the felon by surprise , M And force him ...
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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.