Castle DangerousClassic Books Company, 2001 - 374 էջ From Scott's introduction: "The incidents on which the ensuing Novel mainly turns, are derived from the ancient Metrical Chronicle of "The Brace, " by Archdeacon Barbour, and from the "History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, " by David Hume of Godscroft; and are sustained by the immemorial tradition of the western parts of Scotland. They are so much in consonance with the spirit and manners of the troubled age to which they are referred, that I can see no reason for doubting their being founded in fact; the names, indeed, of numberless localities in the vicinity of Douglas Castle, appear to attest, beyond suspicion, many even of the smallest circumstances embraced in the story of Godscroft." |
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... Aymer de Valence , the knight who commanded the little party , and to the furniture of whose lance , as it was technically called , belonged the archers with whom we have already been acquainted , a man - at - arms or two , a certain ...
... Aymer de Valence , the knight who commanded the little party , and to the furniture of whose lance , as it was technically called , belonged the archers with whom we have already been acquainted , a man - at - arms or two , a certain ...
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... Valence showed a great degree of acuteness and accuracy in his queries ; and ... Aymer with that degree of courtesy which in that age men of song were in ... Aymer consented to this arrangement the more willingly , as it averted all ...
... Valence showed a great degree of acuteness and accuracy in his queries ; and ... Aymer with that degree of courtesy which in that age men of song were in ... Aymer consented to this arrangement the more willingly , as it averted all ...
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... Aymer de Valence was sheathed in armour , and mounted on his charger ; two of the archers , a groom of mean rank , and a squire , who looked in his day for the honour of knighthood , completed the detachment , which seemed so disposed ...
... Aymer de Valence was sheathed in armour , and mounted on his charger ; two of the archers , a groom of mean rank , and a squire , who looked in his day for the honour of knighthood , completed the detachment , which seemed so disposed ...
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... Aymer de Valence had intimated to be the prevalent tint of the country . Some ineffectual struggles of the sun shot a ray here and there to salute the peaks of the hills ; yet these were unable to surmount the dulness of a March morning ...
... Aymer de Valence had intimated to be the prevalent tint of the country . Some ineffectual struggles of the sun shot a ray here and there to salute the peaks of the hills ; yet these were unable to surmount the dulness of a March morning ...
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... Aymer de Valence , who now speak to thee , am born of the noble House of Pembroke ; and though now land- less , shall , by the grace of Our Lady , have in time a fitting establishment , wherein I will find room for a minstrel like thee ...
... Aymer de Valence , who now speak to thee , am born of the noble House of Pembroke ; and though now land- less , shall , by the grace of Our Lady , have in time a fitting establishment , wherein I will find room for a minstrel like thee ...
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Էջ 89 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Էջ ix - As I stood by yon roofless tower, Where the wa'-flower scents the dewy air, Where the howlet mourns in her ivy bower, And tells the midnight moon her care. The winds were laid, the air was still, The stars they shot alang the sky ; The fox was howling on the hill, And the distant-echoing glens reply.
Էջ 17 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I ; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Էջ 89 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted— ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, 425 The marks of that which once hath been.
Էջ 151 - It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep.' The streets, or rather the lanes, were dark, but for a shifting gleam of moonlight, which, as that planet began to rise, was now and then visible upon some steep and narrow gable. No sound of domestic industry, or domestic festivity, was heard, and no ray of candle or firelight glanced from the windows of the houses ; the ancient ordinance called the curfew, which the Conqueror had introduced into England, was at this time in full force in...