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 xx
... voice opened therein as a preacher , who delighted in the collection of olden tales and legends , and in garnishing them with the flowers of poesy , whereof he was a vain and frivolous professor . For he followed not the example of ...
... voice opened therein as a preacher , who delighted in the collection of olden tales and legends , and in garnishing them with the flowers of poesy , whereof he was a vain and frivolous professor . For he followed not the example of ...
Page xxi
... voices , and in making facetious , tales and responses , and whom I have to laud for the truth of his dealings towards me . 1 Now , therefore , the world may see the injustice that charges me with incapacity to write these narratives ...
... voices , and in making facetious , tales and responses , and whom I have to laud for the truth of his dealings towards me . 1 Now , therefore , the world may see the injustice that charges me with incapacity to write these narratives ...
Page xxvii
... His laugh is said to have been quite horrible ; and his screech - owl voice , shrill , uncouth , and dissonant , corresponded well with his other peculiarities . ' There was nothing very uncommon about his dress . xxvii INTRODUCTION.
... His laugh is said to have been quite horrible ; and his screech - owl voice , shrill , uncouth , and dissonant , corresponded well with his other peculiarities . ' There was nothing very uncommon about his dress . xxvii INTRODUCTION.
Page xxx
... voice repeat the cele- brated description of Paradise , which he seemed fully to appreciate . His other studies were of a different cast , chiefly polemical . He never went to * Scots Magazine , vol . 80 , p . 207 . XXX the parish ...
... voice repeat the cele- brated description of Paradise , which he seemed fully to appreciate . His other studies were of a different cast , chiefly polemical . He never went to * Scots Magazine , vol . 80 , p . 207 . XXX the parish ...
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... glad to hear a friendly voice shout in his rear , and propose to him a partner on the road . He slackened his pace , and was quickly joined by a youth well known to him , a gentleman of some fortune in that remote 12 THE BLACK DWARF.
... glad to hear a friendly voice shout in his rear , and propose to him a partner on the road . He slackened his pace , and was quickly joined by a youth well known to him , a gentleman of some fortune in that remote 12 THE BLACK DWARF.
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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.