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... wood , water , and wilderness , had inexpressible charms for him . Show him but an old castle , or a field of battle , and he immediately filled it with its combatants in their proper costume , and overwhelmed his hearers by the ...
... wood , water , and wilderness , had inexpressible charms for him . Show him but an old castle , or a field of battle , and he immediately filled it with its combatants in their proper costume , and overwhelmed his hearers by the ...
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... wood , As under the aged oak he stood , The Baron's courser pricks his ears , As if a distant noise he hears . The Dwarf waves his long lean arm on high , And signs to the lovers to part and fly ; No time was then to vow or sigh . Fair ...
... wood , As under the aged oak he stood , The Baron's courser pricks his ears , As if a distant noise he hears . The Dwarf waves his long lean arm on high , And signs to the lovers to part and fly ; No time was then to vow or sigh . Fair ...
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... spied the fair young child at sport : He thought to train him to the wood ; For , at a word , be it understood , He was always for ill , and never for good , Seemed to the boy some comrade gay Led him forth CANTO III . 81 LAST MINSTREL.
... spied the fair young child at sport : He thought to train him to the wood ; For , at a word , be it understood , He was always for ill , and never for good , Seemed to the boy some comrade gay Led him forth CANTO III . 81 LAST MINSTREL.
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Walter Scott. Seemed to the boy some comrade gay Led him forth to the woods to play ; On the draw - bridge the warders stout ... wood is gone , - For aye the more he sought his way . The farther still he went astray , - Until he heard the ...
Walter Scott. Seemed to the boy some comrade gay Led him forth to the woods to play ; On the draw - bridge the warders stout ... wood is gone , - For aye the more he sought his way . The farther still he went astray , - Until he heard the ...
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... wood , And checked his fellow's surly mood , And quelled the ban - dog's irc : He was an English yeoman good , And born in Lancashire . Well could he hit a fallow deer Five hundred feet him fro ' ; With hand more true , and eye more ...
... wood , And checked his fellow's surly mood , And quelled the ban - dog's irc : He was an English yeoman good , And born in Lancashire . Well could he hit a fallow deer Five hundred feet him fro ' ; With hand more true , and eye more ...
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