The Black DwarfClassic Books Company, 2001 - 262 pages Scott's 1816 novella of love and nationalism along the Scottish Borders receives the authoritative treatment characteristic of the Edinburgh Editions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... father , the philosopher and historian ; and they staid there for a day or two , in the course of which Scott had his first and only interview with David Ritchie , the original of his Black Dwarf .'— Lockhart's ' Life of Scott ...
... father , the philosopher and historian ; and they staid there for a day or two , in the course of which Scott had his first and only interview with David Ritchie , the original of his Black Dwarf .'— Lockhart's ' Life of Scott ...
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... father's family , as it was in his nature to show to any , yet they were always obliged to be very cautious in their deport- ment towards him . One day , having gone to visit him with another lady , he took them through his garden , and ...
... father's family , as it was in his nature to show to any , yet they were always obliged to be very cautious in their deport- ment towards him . One day , having gone to visit him with another lady , he took them through his garden , and ...
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... father believed it unco stievely , though , ' said the old man , to whom the scepticism of his master gave obvious displeasure . ' Ay , very true , Bauldie , but that was in the time o ' the blackfaces they believed a hantle queer ...
... father believed it unco stievely , though , ' said the old man , to whom the scepticism of his master gave obvious displeasure . ' Ay , very true , Bauldie , but that was in the time o ' the blackfaces they believed a hantle queer ...
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... father paid for our steading just threescore punds , and it stands me in three hundred , plack and bawbee . — And that's very true —I hae nae time to be standing here clavering— Landlord , get us our breakfast , and see an ' get the ...
... father paid for our steading just threescore punds , and it stands me in three hundred , plack and bawbee . — And that's very true —I hae nae time to be standing here clavering— Landlord , get us our breakfast , and see an ' get the ...
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... fathers in their military achieve- ments , the recital of which formed the chief part of their amusement within doors . The passing of the Scottish act of security had given the alarm to England , as it seemed to point at a separation ...
... fathers in their military achieve- ments , the recital of which formed the chief part of their amusement within doors . The passing of the Scottish act of security had given the alarm to England , as it seemed to point at a separation ...
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Page 66 - Tis the fire-shower of ruin all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling ! all lonely return ! For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood, And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood.
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Page 60 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal, P.