The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With Memoir and Critical Dissertation, Volumen3J. Nichol, 1857 |
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... her shroud ; On Barnard's towers , and Tees's stream , A She changes as a guilty dream , When Conscience , with remorse and fear , Goads sleeping Fancy's wild career . VOL . III . A Her light seems now the blush of shame , Seems.
... her shroud ; On Barnard's towers , and Tees's stream , A She changes as a guilty dream , When Conscience , with remorse and fear , Goads sleeping Fancy's wild career . VOL . III . A Her light seems now the blush of shame , Seems.
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... tower looks forth , Sees the clouds mustering in the north , Hears , upon turret - roof and wall , By fits the plashing rain - drop fall , Lists to the breeze's boding sound , And wraps his shaggy mantle round . 2 Those towers , which ...
... tower looks forth , Sees the clouds mustering in the north , Hears , upon turret - roof and wall , By fits the plashing rain - drop fall , Lists to the breeze's boding sound , And wraps his shaggy mantle round . 2 Those towers , which ...
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... 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 danger , death , and toil , Are the reward of civil broil ? ' — ' Nay , mock not ...
... 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 danger , death , and toil , Are the reward of civil broil ? ' — ' Nay , mock not ...
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... towers . 29 The lovely heir of Rokeby's Knight Waits in his halls the event of fight ; For England's war revered the claim Of every unprotected name , And spared , amid its fiercest rage , Childhood and womanhood and age . But Wilfrid ...
... towers . 29 The lovely heir of Rokeby's Knight Waits in his halls the event of fight ; For England's war revered the claim Of every unprotected name , And spared , amid its fiercest rage , Childhood and womanhood and age . But Wilfrid ...
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... tower ; " Tis something yet , if , as she pass'd , Her shade is o'er the lattice cast . What is my life , my hope ? ' he said ; ' Alas ! a transitory shade .'- 30 Thus wore his life , though reason strove For mastery in vain with love ...
... tower ; " Tis something yet , if , as she pass'd , Her shade is o'er the lattice cast . What is my life , my hope ? ' he said ; ' Alas ! a transitory shade .'- 30 Thus wore his life , though reason strove For mastery in vain with love ...
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.