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 xii
... mind to see them . With all my heart , answered the host ; and going to his chamber , he brought out a little old cloke - bag , with a padlock and chain to it , and opening it , he took out three large volumes , and some manuscript ...
... mind to see them . With all my heart , answered the host ; and going to his chamber , he brought out a little old cloke - bag , with a padlock and chain to it , and opening it , he took out three large volumes , and some manuscript ...
Page xxviii
... mind congenial to its uncouth tabernacle . A jealous , misanthropical , and irritable temper , was his prominent character- istic . The sense of his deformity haunted him like a phantom . And the insults and scorn to which this exposed ...
... mind congenial to its uncouth tabernacle . A jealous , misanthropical , and irritable temper , was his prominent character- istic . The sense of his deformity haunted him like a phantom . And the insults and scorn to which this exposed ...
Page xxxi
... mind , however , and was finally interred in the common burial - ground of Manor parish . The author has invested Wise Elshie with some qualities which made him appear , in the eyes of the vulgar , a man possessed of supernatural power ...
... mind , however , and was finally interred in the common burial - ground of Manor parish . The author has invested Wise Elshie with some qualities which made him appear , in the eyes of the vulgar , a man possessed of supernatural power ...
Page xxxiv
... mind was thrown off its just bias by a predominant degree of self - love and self - opinion , * I remember David was particularly anxious to see a book , which he called , I think , Letters to the Elect Ladies , and which , he said ...
... mind was thrown off its just bias by a predominant degree of self - love and self - opinion , * I remember David was particularly anxious to see a book , which he called , I think , Letters to the Elect Ladies , and which , he said ...
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... mind and to the body , although he is known to partake of the latter in a very moderate degree ; and the party , with which my Landlord was associated , continued to sit late in the evening , seasoning their liquor with many choice ...
... mind and to the body , although he is known to partake of the latter in a very moderate degree ; and the party , with which my Landlord was associated , continued to sit late in the evening , seasoning their liquor with many choice ...
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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.