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... true that Scott wanted money and found his want an incentive to the writing of poems and novels , it is equally true that , the whole course of his life up to the time of writing The Lay of the Last Minstrel was a direct preparation for ...
... true that Scott wanted money and found his want an incentive to the writing of poems and novels , it is equally true that , the whole course of his life up to the time of writing The Lay of the Last Minstrel was a direct preparation for ...
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... true - love met , And sobbed in his embrace , And fluttering joy in tears and smiles Arrayed full many a face . Nor joy nor smile for Helen sad , She sought the host in vain ; For none could tell her William's fate , If faithless or if ...
... true - love met , And sobbed in his embrace , And fluttering joy in tears and smiles Arrayed full many a face . Nor joy nor smile for Helen sad , She sought the host in vain ; For none could tell her William's fate , If faithless or if ...
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... true ; Our casques the leopard's spoils surround , With Scotland's hardy thistle crowned ; We boast the red and blue . Though tamely crouch to Gallia's frown Dull Holland's tardy train ; Their ravished toys though Romans mourn ; Though ...
... true ; Our casques the leopard's spoils surround , With Scotland's hardy thistle crowned ; We boast the red and blue . Though tamely crouch to Gallia's frown Dull Holland's tardy train ; Their ravished toys though Romans mourn ; Though ...
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... true to me . ' Come , tell me all that thou hast seen , And look thou tell me true ! Since I from Smaylho'me tower have been , What did thy lady do ? ' My lady , each night , sought the lonely light That burns on the wild Watchfold ...
... true to me . ' Come , tell me all that thou hast seen , And look thou tell me true ! Since I from Smaylho'me tower have been , What did thy lady do ? ' My lady , each night , sought the lonely light That burns on the wild Watchfold ...
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... TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi ' his ee ; 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 ...
... TRUE Thomas lay on Huntlie bank ; A ferlie he spied wi ' his ee ; 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 ...
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Page 149 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade by the light, quivering aspen made ; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou...
Page 441 - Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. '"Tell me, thou bonny bird. When shall I marry me?' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.' '"Who makes the bridal bed, Birdie, say truly?' — 'The grey-headed sexton, That delves the grave duly. "The glow-worm o'er grave and stone Shall light thee steady; The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.
Page 130 - Eske river where ford there was none ; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he entered...
Page 51 - IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray.
Page 51 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 74 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill.
Page 57 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 74 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well...
Page 46 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by .an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day!
Page 177 - The font reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.