The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter ScottHoughton, Mifflin, 1900 - 582 pages |
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... hope of preserving . It has been my Delilah , and so I have often termed it ; and now the recollection of the extensive woods I planted , and the walks I have formed , from which strangers must derive both the pleasure and the profit ...
... hope of preserving . It has been my Delilah , and so I have often termed it ; and now the recollection of the extensive woods I planted , and the walks I have formed , from which strangers must derive both the pleasure and the profit ...
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... hope of pleasing others , though certainly without despair of doing so , than in a pursuit of a new and agreeable amuse- ment to myself . ' And this may be taken as the most significant element in Scott's first lit- erary venture , made ...
... hope of pleasing others , though certainly without despair of doing so , than in a pursuit of a new and agreeable amuse- ment to myself . ' And this may be taken as the most significant element in Scott's first lit- erary venture , made ...
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... hope is gone ; Count Albert is prisoner on Mount Leba- non . ' O , she ' s ta'en a horse should be fleet at her speed ; And she ' s ta'en a sword should be sharp at her need ; And she has ta'en shipping for Palestine's land , To ransom ...
... hope is gone ; Count Albert is prisoner on Mount Leba- non . ' O , she ' s ta'en a horse should be fleet at her speed ; And she ' s ta'en a sword should be sharp at her need ; And she has ta'en shipping for Palestine's land , To ransom ...
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... Hope's gay dreams the soldier lead Över mountain , moor , and glade . Helpless , ruined , left forlorn , Lovely Alice wept alone , Mourned o'er love's fond contract torn , Hope , and peace , and honor flown . 10 Mark her breast's ...
... Hope's gay dreams the soldier lead Över mountain , moor , and glade . Helpless , ruined , left forlorn , Lovely Alice wept alone , Mourned o'er love's fond contract torn , Hope , and peace , and honor flown . 10 Mark her breast's ...
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... hope that they may be useful to young persons who may stand in circumstances similar to those in which I then stood . In the first place , upon considering the lives and fortunes of persons who had given them- selves up to literature ...
... hope that they may be useful to young persons who may stand in circumstances similar to those in which I then stood . In the first place , upon considering the lives and fortunes of persons who had given them- selves up to literature ...
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Page 130 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered '"Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
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 451 - With priest's and warrior's voice between. No portents now our foes amaze, Forsaken Israel wanders lone: Our fathers would not know Thy ways, And Thou hast left them to their own. But present still, though now unseen! When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
Page 91 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone: The battled towers, the Donjon Keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep? The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
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. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; 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...
Page 160 - And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown, The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow ; What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had...
Page 138 - All hailed, with uncontrolled delight And general voice, the happy night That to the cottage, as the crown, Brought tidings of salvation down. The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide ; The huge hall-table's oaken face...
Page 156 - The antlered monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook; Like crested leader proud and high Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky; A moment gazed adown the dale, A moment snuffed the tainted gale, A moment listened to the cry, That...
Page 147 - King James did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air ; Oh 1 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.
Page 162 - Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest ! thy warfare o'er...