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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... never saw , or tasted , a glass of unlawful aqua vitæ in the house of my Landlord ; nay , that , on the contrary , we needed not such devices , in respect of a pleasing and somewhat seductive liquor , which was vended and consumed at ...
... never saw , or tasted , a glass of unlawful aqua vitæ in the house of my Landlord ; nay , that , on the contrary , we needed not such devices , in respect of a pleasing and somewhat seductive liquor , which was vended and consumed at ...
Page xxviii
... never wore shoes , being unable to adapt them to his mis - shapen finlike feet , but always had both feet and legs quite concealed , and wrapt up with pieces of cloth . He always walked with a sort of pole or pike - stafF , considerably ...
... never wore shoes , being unable to adapt them to his mis - shapen finlike feet , but always had both feet and legs quite concealed , and wrapt up with pieces of cloth . He always walked with a sort of pole or pike - stafF , considerably ...
Page xxx
... appreciate . His other studies were of a different cast , chiefly polemical . He never went to * Scots Magazine , vol . 80 , p . 207 . XXX the parish church , and was therefore suspected of entertaining THE BLACK DWARF.
... appreciate . His other studies were of a different cast , chiefly polemical . He never went to * Scots Magazine , vol . 80 , p . 207 . XXX the parish church , and was therefore suspected of entertaining THE BLACK DWARF.
Page xxxii
... never affec- tionate to her ; it was not in his nature ; but he endured her . He maintained himself and her by the sale of the produce of their garden and ... never xxxii asked , never refused , and never seemed to consider THE BLACK DWARF.
... never affec- tionate to her ; it was not in his nature ; but he endured her . He maintained himself and her by the sale of the produce of their garden and ... never xxxii asked , never refused , and never seemed to consider THE BLACK DWARF.
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Walter Scott. asked , never refused , and never seemed to consider as an obligation . He had a right , indeed , to regard himself as one of Nature's paupers , to whom she gave a title to be maintained by his kind , even by that deformity ...
Walter Scott. asked , never refused , and never seemed to consider as an obligation . He had a right , indeed , to regard himself as one of Nature's paupers , to whom she gave a title to be maintained by his kind , even by that deformity ...
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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.