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 xxi
... thing is not , Is Causa sine qua non . The work , therefore , is unto me as a child is to a parent ; in the which child , if it proveth worthy , the parent hath honour and praise ; but , if otherwise , the disgrace will deservedly ...
... thing is not , Is Causa sine qua non . The work , therefore , is unto me as a child is to a parent ; in the which child , if it proveth worthy , the parent hath honour and praise ; but , if otherwise , the disgrace will deservedly ...
Page xxxii
... thing more ugly than himself . At heart , he was superstitious , and planted many rowans ( mountain ashes ) around his hut , as a certain defence against necromancy . For the same reason , doubtless , he desired to have rowan - trees ...
... thing more ugly than himself . At heart , he was superstitious , and planted many rowans ( mountain ashes ) around his hut , as a certain defence against necromancy . For the same reason , doubtless , he desired to have rowan - trees ...
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... things in thae days , that naebody heeds since the lang sheep cam in . ' ' The mair's the pity , the mair's the pity ... thing , he continued , ' It's no for the like o ' us to be judging , to be sure ; but it was a bonny knowe that ...
... things in thae days , that naebody heeds since the lang sheep cam in . ' ' The mair's the pity , the mair's the pity ... thing , he continued , ' It's no for the like o ' us to be judging , to be sure ; but it was a bonny knowe that ...
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... thing about lang or short sheep , I will be back here to my kail against ane o'clock ; or , if ye want ony auld - warld stories about the Black Dwarf , and sic - like , if ware a half mutchkin upon Bauldie there , he'll crack t ' ye ...
... thing about lang or short sheep , I will be back here to my kail against ane o'clock ; or , if ye want ony auld - warld stories about the Black Dwarf , and sic - like , if ware a half mutchkin upon Bauldie there , he'll crack t ' ye ...
Page 16
... thing ye may notice frae a friend . The auld Laird of Ellieslaw has the auld riding blood far hetter at his heart than ye hae — troth , he kens naething about thae newfangled notions o ' peace and quietness — he's a ' for the auld ...
... thing ye may notice frae a friend . The auld Laird of Ellieslaw has the auld riding blood far hetter at his heart than ye hae — troth , he kens naething about thae newfangled notions o ' peace and quietness — he's a ' for the auld ...
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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.