...conversation of the gifted author of " Waverley." After the first introduction, she wrote to a friend : " I was surprised when I returned to Chiefswood to think that I had been conversing so freely and fearlessly with Sir Walter Scott, as with a friend of many days, and this at our first...

...brave rider and each straining steed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. ' 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' reel and fid!, but the troop presses forward undismayed. The farther corner of the wood ia reached,...

...very gay sight to us boys, and when their armour glittered hi the sun, as Sir Walter Scott says— " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at their array." There was always an awkward squad at the chapel dyke, out of which, at least one man never got, for...

...rider and each straining steed members of one huge creature, enormous, terrible, irresistible. • ' 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array.' reel and fall, but the troop presses forward undismayed. The farther corner of the wood is reached,...

...glittering sabres, waving banners, and battle flags all tattered and torn, everywhere met the view. , " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life. One glance at their array." One would suppose there was force enough here to whip out all rebeldom, especially to swallow up and...

...war, That up the lake comes winding far 1 Tu hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Theirlight-arm'd archers far and near Survey'd the tangled ground. Their centre ranks, with...

...war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI. " Their light-arm'd archers far and near Survey'd the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, with...

...silken flags ; and the scene ever changing with the involutions and evolutions of the vast host! " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array !" To us the spectacle was thrilling and glorious : to the enemy it must have given point to the scripture...

...silken flags ; and the scen-.e ever changing with the involutions and evolutions ol the vast host ! " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array !" To us the spectacle was thrilling and glorious : to the enemy it must have given point to the scripture?...

...silken flags ; and the scene ever changing with the involutions and evolutions of the vast host! " 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array !" To us the spectacle was thrilling and glorious: to the enemy it must have given point to the scripture...