The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With Memoir and Critical Dissertation, Volume 3J. Nichol, 1857 |
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... known The gentler feelings ' kindly tone ; But lavish waste had been refined To bounty in his chastened mind , And lust of gold , that waste to feed , Been lost in love of glory's meed , And , frantic then no more , his pride Had ta'en ...
... known The gentler feelings ' kindly tone ; But lavish waste had been refined To bounty in his chastened mind , And lust of gold , that waste to feed , Been lost in love of glory's meed , And , frantic then no more , his pride Had ta'en ...
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... known ? A grassy trench , a broken stone ! ' - This to himself ; for moral strain To Bertram were addressed in vain . 6 Of different mood , a deeper sigh Awoke , when Rokeby's turrets high ' Were northward in the dawning seen To rear ...
... known ? A grassy trench , a broken stone ! ' - This to himself ; for moral strain To Bertram were addressed in vain . 6 Of different mood , a deeper sigh Awoke , when Rokeby's turrets high ' Were northward in the dawning seen To rear ...
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... known ; For not to rank nor sex confined Is this vain ague of the mind : Hearts firm as steel , as marble hard , ' Gainst faith , and love , and pity barr'd , Have quaked like aspen leaves in May , Beneath its universal sway . Bertram ...
... known ; For not to rank nor sex confined Is this vain ague of the mind : Hearts firm as steel , as marble hard , ' Gainst faith , and love , and pity barr'd , Have quaked like aspen leaves in May , Beneath its universal sway . Bertram ...
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... known , To single out and mark her own ! Yet some there are , whose brows retain Less deeply stamped her brand and stain . See yon pale stripling ! when a boy , A mother's pride , a father's joy ! Now , ' gainst the vault's rude walls ...
... known , To single out and mark her own ! Yet some there are , whose brows retain Less deeply stamped her brand and stain . See yon pale stripling ! when a boy , A mother's pride , a father's joy ! Now , ' gainst the vault's rude walls ...
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... known . And must I lift the bloody veil , That hides my dark and fatal tale ! I must - I will - Pale phantom , cease ! Leave me one little hour in peace ! Thus haunted , think'st thou I have skill Thine own commission to fulfil ! Or ...
... known . And must I lift the bloody veil , That hides my dark and fatal tale ! I must - I will - Pale phantom , cease ! Leave me one little hour in peace ! Thus haunted , think'st thou I have skill Thine own commission to fulfil ! Or ...
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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.