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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... and to tell news that had been gathered in foreign lands , or preserved from oblivion in this our own . Now I chanced to have contracted for teaching the lower classes with a young person called Peter , xix INTRODUCTION.
... and to tell news that had been gathered in foreign lands , or preserved from oblivion in this our own . Now I chanced to have contracted for teaching the lower classes with a young person called Peter , xix INTRODUCTION.
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Walter Scott. the lower classes with a young person called Peter , or Patrick , Pattieson , who had been educated for our Holy Kirk , yea , had , by the license of presby- tery , his voice opened therein as a preacher , who delighted in ...
Walter Scott. the lower classes with a young person called Peter , or Patrick , Pattieson , who had been educated for our Holy Kirk , yea , had , by the license of presby- tery , his voice opened therein as a preacher , who delighted in ...
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... young man , called Halbert , or Hobbie Elliot , a substantial farmer , who boasted his descent from old Martin Elliot of the Preakin - tower , noted in Border story and song , was on his return from deer - stalking . once so numerous ...
... young man , called Halbert , or Hobbie Elliot , a substantial farmer , who boasted his descent from old Martin Elliot of the Preakin - tower , noted in Border story and song , was on his return from deer - stalking . once so numerous ...
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... young men in hunting and fishing ; and the spirit of adventure , which formerly led to raids and forays in the same districts , was still to be discovered in the eagerness with which they pursued those rural sports . The more high ...
... young men in hunting and fishing ; and the spirit of adventure , which formerly led to raids and forays in the same districts , was still to be discovered in the eagerness with which they pursued those rural sports . The more high ...
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... Young Earnscliff , of that ilk , ' had lately come of age , and succeeded to a moderate fortune , a good deal dilapidated , from the share his family had taken in the disturbances of the period . They were much and generally re- spected ...
... Young Earnscliff , of that ilk , ' had lately come of age , and succeeded to a moderate fortune , a good deal dilapidated , from the share his family had taken in the disturbances of the period . They were much and generally re- spected ...
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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.