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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... minstrel was ill accoutred for any dangerous occu- pation . His only visible weapon was a small crooked sword , like what we now call a hanger and the state of the times would have justified any man , however peaceful his intentions ...
... minstrel was ill accoutred for any dangerous occu- pation . His only visible weapon was a small crooked sword , like what we now call a hanger and the state of the times would have justified any man , however peaceful his intentions ...
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... minstrel of our house for more than twenty years , shouldst experience such a feeling ? ' ' Certes , lady , ' answered Bertram , it would be like the catastrophe which is told of the Baron of Fastenough , when his last mouse was starved ...
... minstrel of our house for more than twenty years , shouldst experience such a feeling ? ' ' Certes , lady , ' answered Bertram , it would be like the catastrophe which is told of the Baron of Fastenough , when his last mouse was starved ...
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... minstrel and man of faith . ' 6 ' I thank thee for thy advice , mine honest Bertram , ' said the lady , but I cannot profit by it . Should thy knowledge of these parts possess thee with an acquaintance with any decent house , whether it ...
... minstrel and man of faith . ' 6 ' I thank thee for thy advice , mine honest Bertram , ' said the lady , but I cannot profit by it . Should thy knowledge of these parts possess thee with an acquaintance with any decent house , whether it ...
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... minstrel's boy , whom you wish to represent in the present pageant . ' · · Do you suffer your youthful pupils to be indeed so slovenly and so saucy , Bertram ? ' an- swered the lady . I for one will not imitate them in that particular ...
... minstrel's boy , whom you wish to represent in the present pageant . ' · · Do you suffer your youthful pupils to be indeed so slovenly and so saucy , Bertram ? ' an- swered the lady . I for one will not imitate them in that particular ...
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... Minstrel , what it is your pleasure to do in this matter ? ' ' O , we will certainly accept of the Scot's hospitality , ' said the lady , ' your minstrel word being plighted that he is a true man . — Tom Dick- call you him ? ' son ...
... Minstrel , what it is your pleasure to do in this matter ? ' ' O , we will certainly accept of the Scot's hospitality , ' said the lady , ' your minstrel word being plighted that he is a true man . — Tom Dick- call you him ? ' son ...
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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...