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... when he also made some cor- rections in the text of the poem , and several additions to the notes . The work is now printed from his inter- leaved copy.-ED. ] INTRODUCTION TO THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . A ADVERTISEMENT. ...
... when he also made some cor- rections in the text of the poem , and several additions to the notes . The work is now printed from his inter- leaved copy.-ED. ] INTRODUCTION TO THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL . A ADVERTISEMENT. ...
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... notes referring to the obscure feuds of barbarous clans , of whose very names civilized history 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 a ...
... notes referring to the obscure feuds of barbarous clans , of whose very names civilized history 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 a ...
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... - hounds , weary with the chase , Lay stretch'd upon the rushy floor , And urged , in dreams , the forest race , From Teviot - stone to Eskdale - moor . ' See Appendix , Note A. B III . Nine - and - twenty knights of fame 41 THE ...
... - hounds , weary with the chase , Lay stretch'd upon the rushy floor , And urged , in dreams , the forest race , From Teviot - stone to Eskdale - moor . ' See Appendix , Note A. B III . Nine - and - twenty knights of fame 41 THE ...
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... ;? ' See Appendix , Note B. " Of a truth , " says Froissart , " the Scottish cannot boast great skill with the bow , but rather bear axes , with which , in time of A hundred more fed free in stall : Such was 42 Canto L THE LAY OF.
... ;? ' See Appendix , Note B. " Of a truth , " says Froissart , " the Scottish cannot boast great skill with the bow , but rather bear axes , with which , in time of A hundred more fed free in stall : Such was 42 Canto L THE LAY OF.
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... Note C. ' See Appendix , Note D. ' Edinburgh . 2 And heard the slogan's ' deadly yell- Then the Cunto 1 . 43 THE LAST MINSTREL .
... Note C. ' See Appendix , Note D. ' Edinburgh . 2 And heard the slogan's ' deadly yell- Then the Cunto 1 . 43 THE LAST MINSTREL .
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ancient Appendix arms band Bard Baron beneath betwixt blaze blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO castle chapel Clair clan courser Cranstoun Cumberland Dame dead death Douglas dread Duke Earl English Eskdale Ettrick Ettrick Forest fair on Carlisle fight friends Froissart hall hand Harden harp Hawick head heard heart highnes horse Howard James Jedburgh King knight Ladye lances lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord Dacre Margaret Melrose Melrose Abbey Michael Scott Mickledale Minstrelsy moss-trooper Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er pass'd poem pray'd ride rode Roslin round rung sayd Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border Seem'd shulde Sir Walter Sir Walter Scott Sir William slain song spear spirit steed stone stood sword Teviot's Teviotdale thee theyre Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tomb tower tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warriors wild William of Deloraine wound