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... never having been entangled in any literary quarrel or con- troversy ; and , which is a still more pleasing result , that I have been distinguished by the personal friendship of my most approved contemporaries of all parties . I adopted ...
... never having been entangled in any literary quarrel or con- troversy ; and , which is a still more pleasing result , that I have been distinguished by the personal friendship of my most approved contemporaries of all parties . I adopted ...
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... never become popular , owing chiefly to its being told in this species of elegiac verse . In the dilemma occasioned by this objection , the idea occurred to the Author of using the measured short line , which forms the structure of so ...
... never become popular , owing chiefly to its being told in this species of elegiac verse . In the dilemma occasioned by this objection , the idea occurred to the Author of using the measured short line , which forms the structure of so ...
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... never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor . The Duchess marked his weary pace , His timid mien , and reverend face , And bade her page the menials tell , That they should tend the old man well : For she had known ...
... never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor . The Duchess marked his weary pace , His timid mien , and reverend face , And bade her page the menials tell , That they should tend the old man well : For she had known ...
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... never thought to sing again . It was not framed for village churls , But for high dames and mighty earls ; He had play'd it to King Charles the Good , When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd , yet fear'd , to try The long ...
... never thought to sing again . It was not framed for village churls , But for high dames and mighty earls ; He had play'd it to King Charles the Good , When he kept court in Holyrood ; And much he wish'd , yet fear'd , to try The long ...
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... never , never be forgot ! 3 The war - cry or gathering word of a Border clan . Among other expedients resorted to for stanching the feud betwixt the Scotts and the Kerrs , there was a bond executed in 1529 , between the heads of each ...
... never , never be forgot ! 3 The war - cry or gathering word of a Border clan . Among other expedients resorted to for stanching the feud betwixt the Scotts and the Kerrs , there was a bond executed in 1529 , between the heads of each ...
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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