The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With Memoir and Critical Dissertation, Volumen3J. Nichol, 1857 |
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... Ne'er in that eye had tear - drop quenched The flash severe of swarthy glow , That mocked at pain , and knew not woe ; Inured to danger's direst form , Tornade and earthquake , flood and storm , Death had he seen by sudden blow , By ...
... Ne'er in that eye had tear - drop quenched The flash severe of swarthy glow , That mocked at pain , and knew not woe ; Inured to danger's direst form , Tornade and earthquake , flood and storm , Death had he seen by sudden blow , By ...
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... ne'er left the host , Until the field were won or lost .'- ' Here , in your towers by circling Tees , You , Oswald Wycliffe , rest at ease ; Why deem it strange that others come To share such safe and easy home , From fields where ...
... ne'er left the host , Until the field were won or lost .'- ' Here , in your towers by circling Tees , You , Oswald Wycliffe , rest at ease ; Why deem it strange that others come To share such safe and easy home , From fields where ...
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... ne'er was joined , till now , With rugged Bertram's breast and brow.— But I resume . The battle's rage Was like the strife which currents wage , Where Orinoco , in his pride , Rolls to the main no tribute tide , But ' gainst broad ocean ...
... ne'er was joined , till now , With rugged Bertram's breast and brow.— But I resume . The battle's rage Was like the strife which currents wage , Where Orinoco , in his pride , Rolls to the main no tribute tide , But ' gainst broad ocean ...
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... ne'er shall rail at mitre more . Thus fared it , when I left the fight , With the good Cause and Commons ' right .'- 14 ' Disastrous news ! ' dark Wycliffe said ; Assumed despondence bent his head , While troubled joy was in his eye ...
... ne'er shall rail at mitre more . Thus fared it , when I left the fight , With the good Cause and Commons ' right .'- 14 ' Disastrous news ! ' dark Wycliffe said ; Assumed despondence bent his head , While troubled joy was in his eye ...
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... er him spread , For him her opiates gave to flow , Which he who tastes can ne'er forego , And placed him in her circle , free From every stern reality , Till , to the visionary , seem Her day - dreams truth , and truth a dream . 31 Woe ...
... er him spread , For him her opiates gave to flow , Which he who tastes can ne'er forego , And placed him in her circle , free From every stern reality , Till , to the visionary , seem Her day - dreams truth , and truth a dream . 31 Woe ...
Términos y frases comunes
Allaster ancient Angus Og Argentine Argyleshire arms army Barbour Barnard Castle battle battle of Bannockburn battle of Methven bear beneath Bertram blood bold brave breast Brignall brow Bruce called Castle commanded Cynddylan dark death Denzil Douglas dread Earl Edward Edward Bruce England English fair fear fell fierce fight fire gallant gave glance Greta hall hand hast hath head hear heard heart Heaven heir horse Isabel island isle of Arran Isles John King Robert knight land light Littlecote House Lord Lorn maid Matilda minstrel Mortham mountain ne'er Nigel Bruce noble NOTE o'er O'Neale pride Redmond Risingham rock Rokeby Rokeby's Ronald round Scotland Scottish Seatoun seem'd shore side Sigillum slain sought spear stern stone sword tale tell thee thine thou tide tower Turnberry Twas wake wave wild Wilfrid wind wood youth
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Página 63 - And by your palfrey good, I read you for a ranger sworn To keep the king's greenwood." " A Ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Página 287 - Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round.
Página 288 - 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 prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Página 266 - Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Página 72 - The Baron of Ravensworth prances in pride, And he views his domains upon Arkindale side. The mere for his net and the land for his game, The chase for the wild and the park for the tame : Yet the fish of the lake and the deer of the vale Are less free to Lord Dacre than Allen-aDale!
Página 73 - shows gallanter still ; 'Tis the blue vault of heaven, with its crescent so pale, And with all its bright spangles!
Página 287 - Where, as to shame the temples decked By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seemed, 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...
Página 100 - The sultry summer day is done. The western hills have hid the sun, But mountain peak and village spire Retain reflection of his fire.
Página 289 - Scarba's isle, whose tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreken's roar, And lonely Colonsay ; — Scenes sung by him who sings no more ! His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! XII.
Página 190 - ... former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.