The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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... King of Prussia . The sleuth - dog , the beacon - fires , the Jedwood - axes , the moss - troopers , the yell of the slogan , and all the irregular warfare of predatory expeditions , or feuds of hereditary vengeance , are far more ...
... King of Prussia . The sleuth - dog , the beacon - fires , the Jedwood - axes , the moss - troopers , the yell of the slogan , and all the irregular warfare of predatory expeditions , or feuds of hereditary vengeance , are far more ...
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... king had loved to hear . He pass'd where Newark's1 stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : 1 [ " This is a massive square tower , now unroofed and ruin- ous , surrounded by an outward wall , defended by round flanking ...
... king had loved to hear . He pass'd where Newark's1 stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower : 1 [ " This is a massive square tower , now unroofed and ruin- ous , surrounded by an outward wall , defended by round flanking ...
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... King Charles the Good , When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd , yet fear'd , to try The long - forgotten melody . Amid the strings his fingers stray'd , And an uncertain warbling made , And oft he shook his hoary head ...
... King Charles the Good , When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd , yet fear'd , to try The long - forgotten melody . Amid the strings his fingers stray'd , And an uncertain warbling made , And oft he shook his hoary head ...
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... he been , By England's King , and Scotland's Queen . XXII . " Sir William of Deloraine , good at need , 1 See Appendix , Note H. 2 See Appendix , Note I. Mount thee on the wightest steed ; Spare not to 56 [ CANTO I. THE LAY OF.
... he been , By England's King , and Scotland's Queen . XXII . " Sir William of Deloraine , good at need , 1 See Appendix , Note H. 2 See Appendix , Note I. Mount thee on the wightest steed ; Spare not to 56 [ CANTO I. THE LAY OF.
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... King David I. Its ruins afford the finest spec- imen of Gothic architecture and Gothic sculpture which Scotland can boast . The stone of which it is built , though it has resisted the weather for so many ages , retains perfect sharpness ...
... King David I. Its ruins afford the finest spec- imen of Gothic architecture and Gothic sculpture which Scotland can boast . The stone of which it is built , though it has resisted the weather for so many ages , retains perfect sharpness ...
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