The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Հատոր 2,Հատորներ 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 էջ |
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... Action at Quatre Bras - French oc- cupy Le Bois du Bossu - Are repulsed by General Maitland - Post at Quatre Bras - Charge by French Cavalry - Gallant defence of the 42d -Loss of the British - Confidence inspired by their success ...
... Action at Quatre Bras - French oc- cupy Le Bois du Bossu - Are repulsed by General Maitland - Post at Quatre Bras - Charge by French Cavalry - Gallant defence of the 42d -Loss of the British - Confidence inspired by their success ...
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... action to accomplish his purposes . If he disperses the enemy , he gains a new extent of human population to drive into his ranks , and to make the instruments , however unwilling , of new depredations . Being consumed so fast , there ...
... action to accomplish his purposes . If he disperses the enemy , he gains a new extent of human population to drive into his ranks , and to make the instruments , however unwilling , of new depredations . Being consumed so fast , there ...
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... action . For , notwith- standing all that I have said of the various causes which divided the opinions of the nation , it must necessarily be supposed that the Bour- bon family had , in many provinces , an equal , and in some a predomi ...
... action . For , notwith- standing all that I have said of the various causes which divided the opinions of the nation , it must necessarily be supposed that the Bour- bon family had , in many provinces , an equal , and in some a predomi ...
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... actions , with the details of which you often regale us , I conceive that even a bungling account of it from a ... action , and con- versed familiarly with many of the distinguished officers , who there laid a claim to the eternal ...
... actions , with the details of which you often regale us , I conceive that even a bungling account of it from a ... action , and con- versed familiarly with many of the distinguished officers , who there laid a claim to the eternal ...
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... action . The general headquarters were fixed at Laon ; a very strong position , where some preparations were made for forming an army of reserve , in case of a disaster . The first corps occupied Valenciennes , and the second Maubeuge ...
... action . The general headquarters were fixed at Laon ; a very strong position , where some preparations were made for forming an army of reserve , in case of a disaster . The first corps occupied Valenciennes , and the second Maubeuge ...
Common terms and phrases
ancient antiquity appears arms army authority barons battle battle of Waterloo beautiful betwixt Bonaparte Border Borthwick Borthwick Castle Bothwell British called castle cavalry character chief Chivalry church circumstances clans comedy command court Crichton Crichton Castle crown Dalkeith defence Douglas Drama Duke Duke of Albany Duke of Wellington Dunbar Earl Earl of Bothwell Earl of Douglas Edinburgh enemy England English favour fortress France French frequently frontier garrison hand honour horse inhabitants James Jedburgh king kingdom knight lady Laird land Liddesdale Lord manner marches military minstrels monarch moss-troopers noble Northumberland occasion officers palace Paris Parliament party person possessed present prince prisoners probably Prussians Queen racter rank regalia rendered Romance royal rude ruins Saint Saxon scene Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border seems soldiers supposed sword taste tion tower town tribes troops usually wall warden William
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Էջ 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Էջ 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Էջ 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Էջ 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Էջ 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Էջ 295 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Էջ 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Էջ 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Էջ 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Էջ 300 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.