Rob RoyHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912 - 488 pages |
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Aberfoil Allan Breck Andrew Fairservice answered appearance arms auld Bailie betwixt called Campbell canna character clan clan MacGregor consider cousin Diana Vernon door doubt Dougal Drummond Duke of Montrose e'en escape expressed eyes father favour fear feelings followed frae Frank gentleman Glasgow Glengyle Gregor gude hand head heard Hieland Highland honest honour horse Inglewood Inversnaid Jacobite James Mhor Jarvie Jean Key Jobson Justice kinsman letter Loch Loch Katrine Loch Lomond look Lowland MacGregor mair manner maun mind Miss Vernon Morris muckle never night observed occasion Osbaldistone Hall Owen ower party person portmanteau possessed prisoner puir Rashleigh Osbaldistone recollection replied Rob Roy Rob Roy MacGregor Rob Roy's Robin Oig Scotland seemed Sir Hildebrand speak Stewart suld suppose sword tell Thorncliff thought tion tone Tresham weel wild word young
Popular passages
Page xix - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Page 316 - ... long-descended, — you could enjoy yourself, like a butcher's dog in the shambles, battening on garbage, while the slaughter of the brave went on around you ! This enjoyment you shall not live to partake of; you shall die, base dog, and that before yon cloud has passed over the sun.
Page 144 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Page 284 - See if one fear, one shadow of a terror, One paleness dare appear but from my anger, To lay hold on your mercies.
Page 177 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 317 - But the knot had been securely bound - the wretched man sunk without effort; the waters, which his fall had disturbed, settled calmly over him, and the unit of that life for which he had pleaded so strongly, was for ever withdrawn from the sum of human existence.
Page 360 - ... that the name they have dared to proscribe — that the name. of MacGregor — is a spell to raise the wild devil withal. They shall hear of my vengeance that would scorn to listen to the story of my wrongs. The miserable Highland drover, bankrupt, barefooted, stripped of all...
Page xix - Tis God's appointment who must sway, And who is to submit. "Since, then, the rule of right is plain, And longest life is but a day; To have my ends, maintain my rights, I'll take the shortest way.
Page 316 - The heavy burden splashed in the dark-blue waters of the lake, and the Highlanders, with their poleaxes and swords, watched an instant, to guard, lest, extricating himself from the load to which he was attached, he might have struggled to regain the shore.
Page 177 - Guild that year — (and a gude mason he was himsell, made him the keener to keep up the auld bigging), and the trades assembled, and offered downright battle to the commons, rather than their kirk should coup the crans, as others had done elsewhere. It wasna for luve o' papery — na, na ! — nane could ever say that o...