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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Page xiv
... hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and summer , for every evening in my life , during forty years bypast , ( the Christian Sabbaths only excepted , ) must have seen more of the manners and customs of ...
... hand side of the fire , in the common room of the Wallace Inn , winter and summer , for every evening in my life , during forty years bypast , ( the Christian Sabbaths only excepted , ) must have seen more of the manners and customs of ...
Page xvi
... hands of intelligent modesty . For these alone they were compiled , as will appear from a brief narrative which my zeal for truth compelled me to make supplementary to the present Proem . It is well known that my Landlord was a pleas ...
... hands of intelligent modesty . For these alone they were compiled , as will appear from a brief narrative which my zeal for truth compelled me to make supplementary to the present Proem . It is well known that my Landlord was a pleas ...
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... hands much stained with tar , and observed an air of deference and respect towards his companion , but without any of those indications of precedence and punctilio which are preserved between the gentry and their domestics . A I THE ...
... hands much stained with tar , and observed an air of deference and respect towards his companion , but without any of those indications of precedence and punctilio which are preserved between the gentry and their domestics . A I THE ...
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... hands , and those of his domestics . This was usually employed by the young men in hunting and fishing ; and the spirit of adventure , which formerly led to raids and forays in the same districts , was still to be discovered in the ...
... hands , and those of his domestics . This was usually employed by the young men in hunting and fishing ; and the spirit of adventure , which formerly led to raids and forays in the same districts , was still to be discovered in the ...
Page 15
... hand , and in such a bogilly bit too , where we know not what beings may be listening to us ! ' ' Hush , hush ! ' said Hobbie , drawing nearer to his companion , ' I was nae thinking o ' the like o ' them — But I can guess a wee bit ...
... hand , and in such a bogilly bit too , where we know not what beings may be listening to us ! ' ' Hush , hush ! ' said Hobbie , drawing nearer to his companion , ' I was nae thinking o ' the like o ' them — But I can guess a wee bit ...
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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.
Page 61 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
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.