The Waverley Novels, Выпуск 13Estes and Lauriat, 1893 |
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Allan M'Aulay ancient Anderson Angus M'Aulay Annot Lyle answered Dalgetty answered the soldier apartment Ardvoirlich Argyle's Argyleshire arms army attendants battle blood boothose brother called Captain Dalgetty castle cavalier character Chiefs clan command Convention of Estates Covenanters Dalgetty's Diarmid Donald Drumthwacket Dugald Dalgetty Earl of Menteith Earl of Montrose enemy eyes father followers gallery gentlemen getty glen Gustavus Adolphus hand head heard Highland honour horse Inverary Irish King Knight of Ardenvohr lady Laird land LEGEND OF MONTROSE look Lord Kilpont Lord Menteith lordship Lowland M'Callum Major Dalgetty Mareschal-College Marquis of Argyle matter military Mist Montrose's mountains Murdoch never noble occasion outlaw party pass person pike plaid Ranald MacEagh rank replied respect returned Ritt-master Sassenach Scotland Scottish second sight seemed Sir Dugald Sir Duncan Campbell speak sword teith thou tion tribe vengeance voice whilk wild wound
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Стр. 196 - Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.
Стр. 81 - ... like reapers descend to the harvest of death. Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock...
Стр. xii - When I light on such a character as Bailie Jarvie, or Dalgetty, my imagination brightens, and my conception becomes clearer at every step which I take in his company, although it leads me many a weary mile away from the regular road, and forces me to leap hedge and ditch to get back into the route again. If I resist the temptation, as you advise me, my thoughts become prosy, flat, and dull...
Стр. 141 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Стр. 281 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Стр. 222 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Стр. 1 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Стр. 18 - Revolution, as traditions of no very distant date represent him as cruizing about in that country, very old, very deaf, and very full of interminable stories about the immortal Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the North, and the bulwark of the Protestant Faith.
Стр. 301 - Drumthwacket, which he acquired, not by the sword, but by a pacific intermarriage with Hannah Strachan, a matron somewhat stricken in years, the widow of the Aberdeenshire Covenanter. Sir Dugald is supposed to have survived the Revolution, as traditions of no very distant date represent him as...
Стр. 195 - But if no faithless action stain Thy true and constant word, I'll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword. I'll serve thee in such noble ways As ne'er were known before ; I'll deck and crown thy head with bays, And love thee more and more, Mcnttrosc's Lines.