The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Complete in One VolumeA. and W. Galignani, 1827 - 489 pages |
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... ISLES Notes . THOMAS THE RHYMER Notes and Appendix HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN Notes . THE VISION OF DON RODERICK . Notes . THE FIELD OF WATERLOO 137 The Sun upon the Weirdlaw - hill ib . 179 The Maid of Isla 474 The ...
... ISLES Notes . THOMAS THE RHYMER Notes and Appendix HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN Notes . THE VISION OF DON RODERICK . Notes . THE FIELD OF WATERLOO 137 The Sun upon the Weirdlaw - hill ib . 179 The Maid of Isla 474 The ...
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... Isles appeared , but failed to excite equal interest with most of its predecessors . This is the last grand original poem of the northern bard . In the last - mentioned year he also published a prose work , entitled , The Border ...
... Isles appeared , but failed to excite equal interest with most of its predecessors . This is the last grand original poem of the northern bard . In the last - mentioned year he also published a prose work , entitled , The Border ...
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... isle and islet , strait and bay ;-( 14 ) Still nods their palace to its fall , Thy pride and sorrow , fair Kirkwall ... isles might fancy cull ; For thither came , in times afar , Stern Lochlin's sons of roving war , The Norsemen ...
... isle and islet , strait and bay ;-( 14 ) Still nods their palace to its fall , Thy pride and sorrow , fair Kirkwall ... isles might fancy cull ; For thither came , in times afar , Stern Lochlin's sons of roving war , The Norsemen ...
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... Isles being taken from one of them by James the Third for faultre , after his brother Alexander , Duke of Albany , had married a daughter of my family , and for protecting and defend - Thor , who went to fish for it with a hook baited ...
... Isles being taken from one of them by James the Third for faultre , after his brother Alexander , Duke of Albany , had married a daughter of my family , and for protecting and defend - Thor , who went to fish for it with a hook baited ...
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... isle their beads they tell To the good saint who own'd the cell ; Then did the Alne attention claim , And Warkworth , proud of Percy's name ; And next , they cross'd themselves , to hear The whitening breakers sound so near , Where ...
... isle their beads they tell To the good saint who own'd the cell ; Then did the Alne attention claim , And Warkworth , proud of Percy's name ; And next , they cross'd themselves , to hear The whitening breakers sound so near , Where ...
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Page 2 - And, would the noble Duchess deign To listen to an old man's strain, Though stiff his hand, his voice though weak, He thought even yet, the sooth to speak, That, if she loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear.
Page 241 - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 118 - The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the correi...
Page 90 - Lord Marmion started from the ground, As light as if he felt no wound; Though in the action burst the tide, In torrents from his wounded side. " Then it was truth," he said—" I knew That the dark presage must be true.
Page 372 - I CLIMB'D the dark brow of the mighty Hellvellyn, Lakes and mountains beneath me gleam'd misty and wide ; All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling. And starting around me the echoes replied. On the right, Striden-edge round the Red-tarn was bending, And Catchedicam its left verge was defending, One huge nameless rock in the front was ascending, When I mark'd the sad spot where the wanderer had died.
Page 373 - The bride at the altar ; Leave the deer, leave the steer, Leave nets and barges: Come with your fighting gear, Broadswords and targes. Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded: Faster come, faster come. Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master.
Page 86 - Saint Mary mend my fiery mood ! Old age ne'er cools the Douglas blood, I thought to slay him where he stood. 'Tis pity of him too," he cried : " Bold can he speak, and fairly ride, I warrant him a warrior tried.
Page 11 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires! what mortal hand can e'er untie the filial band, that knits me to thy rugged strand!
Page 241 - In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody. Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old lona's holy fane, That Nature's voice might seem to say, " Well hast thou done, frail Child of clay ! Thy humble powers that stately shrine Task'd high and hard — but witness mine !"— XI.
Page 372 - Now let this wilfu' grief be done, And dry that cheek so pale; Young Frank is chief of Errington And lord of Langley-dale; His step is first in peaceful ha', His sword in battle keen' — But aye she loot the tears down fa* For Jock of Hazeldean.