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 xviii
... nature after the fatigues of my school . It is true , I taught his five sons English and Latin , writing , book - keeping , with a tincture of mathematics , and that I instructed his daughter in psalmody . Nor do I remember me of any ...
... nature after the fatigues of my school . It is true , I taught his five sons English and Latin , writing , book - keeping , with a tincture of mathematics , and that I instructed his daughter in psalmody . Nor do I remember me of any ...
Page xxix
... 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 was showing them , with much pride ...
... 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 was showing them , with much pride ...
Page xxx
... nature . His garden , which he sedulously cultivated , and from a piece of wild moorland made a very productive spot , was his pride and his delight ; but he was also an admirer of more natural beauty : the soft sweep of the green hill ...
... nature . His garden , which he sedulously cultivated , and from a piece of wild moorland made a very productive spot , was his pride and his delight ; but he was also an admirer of more natural beauty : the soft sweep of the green hill ...
Page xxxii
... natural beauty . His only living favourites were a dog and a cat , to which he was particularly attached , and his bees ... nature ; but he endured her . He maintained himself and her by the sale of the produce of their garden and bee ...
... natural beauty . His only living favourites were a dog and a cat , to which he was particularly attached , and his bees ... nature ; but he endured her . He maintained himself and her by the sale of the produce of their garden and bee ...
Page xxxiii
... Nature's paupers , to whom she gave a title to be maintained by his kind , even by that deformity which closed against him all ordinary ways of supporting himself by his own labour . Besides , a bag was suspended in the mill for David ...
... Nature's paupers , to whom she gave a title to be maintained by his kind , even by that deformity which closed against him all ordinary ways of supporting himself by his own labour . Besides , a bag was suspended in the mill for David ...
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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.