The poetical works of Walter Scott, Volumen3 |
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... VOLUMES . VOL . III . EDINBURGH : PRINTED FOR ARCH . CONSTABLE AND CO . EDINBURGH : LONGMAN , Hurst , rees , ORME , AND BROWN ; AND JOHN MURRAY , LONDON . 23-111012 CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRD . MARMION . Introduction to 1820 .
... VOLUMES . VOL . III . EDINBURGH : PRINTED FOR ARCH . CONSTABLE AND CO . EDINBURGH : LONGMAN , Hurst , rees , ORME , AND BROWN ; AND JOHN MURRAY , LONDON . 23-111012 CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRD . MARMION . Introduction to 1820 .
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... John of Tillmouth were the man : A blithesome brother at the can , A welcome guest in hall and bower , He knows each castle , town , and tower , In which the wine and ale are good , ' Twixt Newcastle and Holy - Rood . But that good man ...
... John of Tillmouth were the man : A blithesome brother at the can , A welcome guest in hall and bower , He knows each castle , town , and tower , In which the wine and ale are good , ' Twixt Newcastle and Holy - Rood . But that good man ...
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... John . He is a man of mirthful speech , Can many a game and gambol teach ; Full well at tables can he play , And sweep at bowls the stake away . None can a lustier carol bawl , The needfullest among us all , When time hangs heavy in the ...
... John . He is a man of mirthful speech , Can many a game and gambol teach ; Full well at tables can he play , And sweep at bowls the stake away . None can a lustier carol bawl , The needfullest among us all , When time hangs heavy in the ...
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... John , in safety , still In chimney - corner snore his fill , Roast hissing crabs , or flagons swill : Last night , to Norham there came one , Will better guide Lord Marmion . " - " Nephew , " quoth Heron , " by my fay , Well hast thou ...
... John , in safety , still In chimney - corner snore his fill , Roast hissing crabs , or flagons swill : Last night , to Norham there came one , Will better guide Lord Marmion . " - " Nephew , " quoth Heron , " by my fay , Well hast thou ...
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... John hath quaff'd his ale , As little as the wind that blows , And warms itself against his nose , Kens he , or cares , which way he goes . " - XXV . " Gramercy ! " quoth Lord Marmion , " Full loth were I , that Friar John , That ...
... John hath quaff'd his ale , As little as the wind that blows , And warms itself against his nose , Kens he , or cares , which way he goes . " - XXV . " Gramercy ! " quoth Lord Marmion , " Full loth were I , that Friar John , That ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abbess abbot ancient arches arms beneath Bishop of Durham bold breast called castle champion chapel Chester-le-street Dane dark death deep Donjon Durham Earl Elfin Erskine Ettricke Ettricke Forest fair falcon fear Featherston Fitz-Eustace foes Forest Friar John gentle gentlemen grace grave grim Guenever hall Haltwhistle hand hath hear heard heart heaven hermit Heron Holy Island horse hounds hunt king knight lady lady's lake lance land light Lindisfarn lonely Lord Marmion mark'd minstrels monks mountain ne'er noble Norham Norham Castle northern war Northumberland Note nuns o'er Palmer Perkin Warbeck proud Ridley rock round rude Saint Cuthbert's Saint Hilda's scarce Scotland Scottish seem'd shew Shew'd shield shrine Sir Launcelot sound spear spell squire St Cuthbert steed stood sword tale Tamworth tell thee Thomas Gray thou thought tide toil tomb tower Tweed wall Warkworth Whitby Whitby's wild William
Pasajes populares
Página 16 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Página 149 - Where shall the traitor rest, He, the deceiver, Who could win maiden's breast, Ruin, and leave her ? In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying ; Eleu loro There shall he be lying.
Página 91 - Thy tower, proud Bamborough, mark'd they there, King Ida's castle, huge and square, From its tall rock look grimly down, And on the swelling ocean frown ; Then from the coast they bore away, And reach'd the Holy Island's bay.
Página 211 - The manner of the hunting is this : five or six hundred men do rise early in the morning, and they do disperse themselves divers ways, and seven, eight, or ten miles...
Página 57 - Poor wretch, the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan face and sunburnt hair She had not known her child.
Página 211 - Then after we had staid there three hours, or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Página 180 - ... was a stone that was of marble ; but it was so dark, that Sir Launcelot might not well know what it was. Then Sir Launcelot looked by him, and saw an old chappell, and there he wend to have found people. And so Sir Launcelot tied his horse to a...
Página 71 - Companions of my mountain joys, Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Página 185 - ... families. and also shadowed the events of future ages, in the succession of our imperial line ; with these helps, and those of the machines, which I have mentioned, I might perhaps have done as well as some of my predecessors, or at least chalked out a way for others to amend my errors in a like design. But being encouraged only with fair words by King Charles II, my little salary ill paid, and no prospect of a future subsistence, I -was then discouraged in the beginning of my attempt...
Página 134 - Whose doom discording neighbours sought, Content with equity unbought ; To him the venerable Priest, Our frequent and familiar guest, Whose life and manners well could paint Alike the student and the saint ; Alas ! whose speech too oft I broke With gambol rude and timeless joke : For I was wayward, bold, and wild, A self-will'd imp, a grandame's child ; But half a plague, and half a jest, Was still endured, beloved, caress'd.