The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With a Memoir of the AuthorLittle, Brown and Company, 1863 - 300 pages |
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... notes which the happy rambles of his youth had gathered together for their illustration . " But before the publication of the Border Min- strelsy , the poet had begun to attempt a higher flight . " In the third volume , " says he ...
... notes which the happy rambles of his youth had gathered together for their illustration . " But before the publication of the Border Min- strelsy , the poet had begun to attempt a higher flight . " In the third volume , " says he ...
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... notes . The work is now printed from his interleaved copy . It is much to be regretted that the original MS . of this poem has not been preserved . We are thus denied the advantage of comparing through- out the Author's various readings ...
... notes . The work is now printed from his interleaved copy . It is much to be regretted that the original MS . of this poem has not been preserved . We are thus denied the advantage of comparing through- out the Author's various readings ...
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... notes referring to the obscure feuds of bar- barous clans , of whose very names civilized his- tory was ignorant . It was , on the whole , one of those books which are more praised than they are read . At this time I stood personally in ...
... notes referring to the obscure feuds of bar- barous clans , of whose very names civilized his- tory was ignorant . It was , on the whole , one of those books which are more praised than they are read . At this time I stood personally in ...
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... from his place of rest , as Milton longed To call up him who left half told The story of Cambuscan bold ? " " Notes to the Abbot . ] fragments which the author abandons to their fate , are LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . 21.
... from his place of rest , as Milton longed To call up him who left half told The story of Cambuscan bold ? " " Notes to the Abbot . ] fragments which the author abandons to their fate , are LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . 21.
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... II . The tables were drawn , it was idlesse all ; Knight , and page , and household squire , Loiter'd through the lofty hall , Or crowded round the ample fire : 1 See Appendix , Note A. The stag - hounds , weary with the chase ,
... II . The tables were drawn , it was idlesse all ; Knight , and page , and household squire , Loiter'd through the lofty hall , Or crowded round the ample fire : 1 See Appendix , Note A. The stag - hounds , weary with the chase ,
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ancient appeared Appendix arms ballad band Bard Baron Beattisons beneath betwixt blood Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO castle chief Clair clan courser Cranstoun Dacre Dame dead Deloraine Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Edinburgh English Eskdale Ettrick Ettrick Forest father friends hall hand Harden harp heard highnes horse James Jedburgh King knight Knight of Liddesdale Lady Ladye lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale literary Lord manner Melrose Melrose Abbey Mickledale Minstrelsy moss-troopers Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er pass'd poem poet poetical poetry ride rode romance Roslin round rung sayd scene Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border Seem'd Selkirkshire shulde Sir Walter Sir William slain song spear spirit stanzas steed stood sword Teviot's Teviotdale theyme Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tion tower tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warriors wild William of Deloraine wound