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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... speaking on the law of patronage , as , with the fructification thereof in mine own understanding , hath made me be con- sidered as an oracle upon that doctrine ever since my safe and happy return to Gandercleugh . Again and thirdly ...
... speaking on the law of patronage , as , with the fructification thereof in mine own understanding , hath made me be con- sidered as an oracle upon that doctrine ever since my safe and happy return to Gandercleugh . Again and thirdly ...
Page xix
... speak my simple conceit and belief , I think my Landlord was chiefly moved to waive in my behalf the usual requisition of a symbol , or reckoning , from the pleasure he was wont to take in my conversation , which , though solid and ...
... speak my simple conceit and belief , I think my Landlord was chiefly moved to waive in my behalf the usual requisition of a symbol , or reckoning , from the pleasure he was wont to take in my conversation , which , though solid and ...
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... speaking like a man now , ' said the stout yeoman ; and , if sae should be that this be sae , if ye'11 just gar your servant jow out the great bell in the tower , there's me , and my twa brothers , and little Davie of the Stenhouse ...
... speaking like a man now , ' said the stout yeoman ; and , if sae should be that this be sae , if ye'11 just gar your servant jow out the great bell in the tower , there's me , and my twa brothers , and little Davie of the Stenhouse ...
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... speak of . Though I Though I say it mysell , I am as quiet a lad and as peaceable- , ' And Dick Turnbull's head that you broke , and Willie of Winton whom you shot at ? ' said his travelling companion . ' Hout , Earnscliff , ye keep a ...
... speak of . Though I Though I say it mysell , I am as quiet a lad and as peaceable- , ' And Dick Turnbull's head that you broke , and Willie of Winton whom you shot at ? ' said his travelling companion . ' Hout , Earnscliff , ye keep a ...
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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.