The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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... Harden- was sprung , in the fourteenth century from the great house of Buccleuch ; his grandfather be- came a farmer in Roxburghshire ; and his father , Walter Scott , was a writer to the signet in the Scottish capital . His mother ...
... Harden- was sprung , in the fourteenth century from the great house of Buccleuch ; his grandfather be- came a farmer in Roxburghshire ; and his father , Walter Scott , was a writer to the signet in the Scottish capital . His mother ...
Page 87
... Harden came thither amain , And thither came John of Thirlestane , And thither came William of Deloraine ; They were three hundred spears and three . Through Douglas - burn , up Yarrow stream , 2 Their horses prance , their lances gleam ...
... Harden came thither amain , And thither came John of Thirlestane , And thither came William of Deloraine ; They were three hundred spears and three . Through Douglas - burn , up Yarrow stream , 2 Their horses prance , their lances gleam ...
Page 104
... Harden shall come with speed , And William of Deloraine , good at need , And every Scott , from Esk to Tweed ; And , if thou dost not let me go , thighe , so that the speare went clene throughe , that the heed was sene a handfull on the ...
... Harden shall come with speed , And William of Deloraine , good at need , And every Scott , from Esk to Tweed ; And , if thou dost not let me go , thighe , so that the speare went clene throughe , that the heed was sene a handfull on the ...
Page 126
... Harden's lord Ne'er belted on a brand.1 X.2 Scotts of Eskdale , a stalwart band , 3 1 [ See , besides the note on this stanza , one in the Border Minstrelsy , vol . ii . p . 10 , respecting Wat of Harden , the Au- thor's ancestor . A ...
... Harden's lord Ne'er belted on a brand.1 X.2 Scotts of Eskdale , a stalwart band , 3 1 [ See , besides the note on this stanza , one in the Border Minstrelsy , vol . ii . p . 10 , respecting Wat of Harden , the Au- thor's ancestor . A ...
Page 141
... Harden blew ; Pensils and pennons wide were flung , To heaven the Border slogan rung , " St. Mary for the young Buccleuch ! " The English war - cry answer'd wide , And forward bent each southern spear ; Each Kendal archer made a stride ...
... Harden blew ; Pensils and pennons wide were flung , To heaven the Border slogan rung , " St. Mary for the young Buccleuch ! " The English war - cry answer'd wide , And forward bent each southern spear ; Each Kendal archer made a stride ...
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