The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: First Series, Containing Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ; Sir Tristrem ; and Dramatic PiecesBaudry's European Library, 1838 - 532 pages |
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... Tell Me wred Bull in Bd Add you has started at the sound banger four tus - ju . wood Bothell hung , br I was waving for fivide And from the cofly turrits fluny Its crenson Clage on Clyde الحمل And starbling at the Bugle blasted What ...
... Tell Me wred Bull in Bd Add you has started at the sound banger four tus - ju . wood Bothell hung , br I was waving for fivide And from the cofly turrits fluny Its crenson Clage on Clyde الحمل And starbling at the Bugle blasted What ...
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... telling tales of Bothwell - brig ; He could not miss to mind the attempt , For he was sitting pu'ing hemp ; My aunt , whom nane dare say has no grace , Was reading in the Pilgrim's Progress ; The meikle tasker , Davie Dallas , Was telling ...
... telling tales of Bothwell - brig ; He could not miss to mind the attempt , For he was sitting pu'ing hemp ; My aunt , whom nane dare say has no grace , Was reading in the Pilgrim's Progress ; The meikle tasker , Davie Dallas , Was telling ...
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... tell , how , when at evening's close , To meet her love beneath the twilight shade , O'er many a broom - clad brae and heathy glade , In merry mood the village maiden goes ; There , on a streamlet's margin as she lies , Chanting some ...
... tell , how , when at evening's close , To meet her love beneath the twilight shade , O'er many a broom - clad brae and heathy glade , In merry mood the village maiden goes ; There , on a streamlet's margin as she lies , Chanting some ...
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... tell ? for weel ye ken The King's his mortal enemie ; And now he is cuming to Ettricke Foreste , And landless men ye a ' will be . " - " And , by my trothe , " James Murray said , " Wi ' that Outlaw will I live and die ; The King has ...
... tell ? for weel ye ken The King's his mortal enemie ; And now he is cuming to Ettricke Foreste , And landless men ye a ' will be . " - " And , by my trothe , " James Murray said , " Wi ' that Outlaw will I live and die ; The King has ...
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... tell , that while he was besieging the out- laws in the Tarras , they contrived , by ways known only to themselves ... telling him , that , fearing he might fall short of provision during his visit to Scotland , they had taken the pre ...
... tell , that while he was besieging the out- laws in the Tarras , they contrived , by ways known only to themselves ... telling him , that , fearing he might fall short of provision during his visit to Scotland , they had taken the pre ...
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Page 211 - THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea...
Page 157 - In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new slain knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. "His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet.
Page 212 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night. Since my three sons are well.
Page 158 - O hold your hand, Lord William!" she said, "For your strokes they are wondrous sair; True lovers I can get many a ane, But a father I can never get mair.
Page 46 - Our gude ship sails the morn." "Now ever alake, my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 88 - To mount the first before us a'. He has ta'en the watchman by the throat, He flung him down upon the lead — " Had there not been peace between our lands Upon the other side thou hadst gaed ! — " Now sound out, trumpets !
Page 177 - A brawer bower ye ne'er did see, Than my true love he built for me. There came a man, by middle day, He spied his sport, and went away ; And brought the king that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight. He slew my knight, to me sae dear ; He slew my knight, and poin'd ' his gear ; My servants all for life did flee, And left me in extremitie, I...
Page 249 - TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi' his e'e ; „ And there he saw a ladye bright, Come riding down by the Eildon Tree. Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, Hang fifty siller bells and nine.
Page 47 - A' for the sake of their true loves; For them they'll see na mair. O lang, lang, may the ladyes sit, Wi' their fans into their hand, Before they see Sir Patrick Spens Come sailing to the strand! And lang, lang, may the maidens sit, Wi' their goud kaims in their hair, A' waiting for their ain dear loves!
Page 248 - Ercildoune, a person came running in, and told, with marks of fear and astonishment, that a hart and hind had left the neighbouring forest, and were, composedly and slowly, parading the street of the village. The prophet instantly arose, left his habitation, and followed the wonderful animals to the forest, whence he was never seen to return. According to the popular belief, he still "drees his weird" in Fairy Land, and is one day expected to revisit earth.