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 xix
... received from him on account of these my labours , except the compotations afore- said . Nevertheless this compensation suited my humour well , since it is a hard sentence to bid a dry throat wait till quarter - day . But , truly , were ...
... received from him on account of these my labours , except the compotations afore- said . Nevertheless this compensation suited my humour well , since it is a hard sentence to bid a dry throat wait till quarter - day . But , truly , were ...
Page xxvi
... received from passengers , or those who came attracted by curiosity , a good deal of assistance ; and as no one knew how much aid had been given by others , the wonder of each individual remained undiminished . The proprietor of the ...
... received from passengers , or those who came attracted by curiosity , a good deal of assistance ; and as no one knew how much aid had been given by others , the wonder of each individual remained undiminished . The proprietor of the ...
Page xxxii
... , and were sure to find them equally ready and willing to supply their very moderate wants . David often received gratuities from strangers , which he never xxxii asked , never refused , and never seemed to consider THE BLACK DWARF.
... , and were sure to find them equally ready and willing to supply their very moderate wants . David often received gratuities from strangers , which he never xxxii asked , never refused , and never seemed to consider THE BLACK DWARF.
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... malam partem , in two cases , at least . A soft road , is a road through quagmire and bogs ; and soft weather , signifies that which is very rainy . without receiving any answer , or attending to the pinches 20 THE BLACK DWARF.
... malam partem , in two cases , at least . A soft road , is a road through quagmire and bogs ; and soft weather , signifies that which is very rainy . without receiving any answer , or attending to the pinches 20 THE BLACK DWARF.
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Walter Scott. without receiving any answer , or attending to the pinches by which his companion endeavoured to intimate that their best course was to walk on , without giving farther disturbance to a being of such singular and ...
Walter Scott. without receiving any answer , or attending to the pinches by which his companion endeavoured to intimate that their best course was to walk on , without giving farther disturbance to a being of such singular and ...
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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.