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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... live in a hut adjacent to his own , but he did not permit her to enter it . She was weak in intellect , but not deformed in person ; simple , or rather silly , but not , like her brother , sullen or bizarre . David was never affec ...
... live in a hut adjacent to his own , but he did not permit her to enter it . She was weak in intellect , but not deformed in person ; simple , or rather silly , but not , like her brother , sullen or bizarre . David was never affec ...
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... live on their ain bonny green hills . ' ' My education and my sisters ' has kept my mother much in Edinburgh for several years , ' said Earnseliff , but I promise you I propose to make up for lost time . ' · 6 And ye'11 rig out the auld ...
... live on their ain bonny green hills . ' ' My education and my sisters ' has kept my mother much in Edinburgh for several years , ' said Earnseliff , but I promise you I propose to make up for lost time . ' · 6 And ye'11 rig out the auld ...
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... lives high , and far abune his rents here ; however , he pays his way — Sae , if there's ony outbreak in the country , he's likely to break out wi ' the first --and weel does he mind the auld quarrels between ye . I'm surmising he 11 be ...
... lives high , and far abune his rents here ; however , he pays his way — Sae , if there's ony outbreak in the country , he's likely to break out wi ' the first --and weel does he mind the auld quarrels between ye . I'm surmising he 11 be ...
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... live quiet like Loudon folk — we haena sae muckle to do . It's impossible . ' 6 " Well , Hobbie , ' said the Laird , for one who believes so deeply as you do in supernatural ap- pearances , I must own you take Heaven in your own hand ...
... live quiet like Loudon folk — we haena sae muckle to do . It's impossible . ' 6 " Well , Hobbie , ' said the Laird , for one who believes so deeply as you do in supernatural ap- pearances , I must own you take Heaven in your own hand ...
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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.