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... stood personally in a different position from that which I occupied when I first dipt my des- perate pen in ink for other purposes than those of my profession . In 1796 , when I first published the trans- lations from Bürger , I was an ...
... stood personally in a different position from that which I occupied when I first dipt my des- perate pen in ink for other purposes than those of my profession . In 1796 , when I first published the trans- lations from Bürger , I was an ...
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... stood . In the first place , upon considering the lives and for- tunes of persons who had given themselves up to liter- ature , or to the task of pleasing the public , it seemed to me , that the circumstances which chiefly affected ...
... stood . In the first place , upon considering the lives and for- tunes of persons who had given themselves up to liter- ature , or to the task of pleasing the public , it seemed to me , that the circumstances which chiefly affected ...
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... Stood saddled in stable day and night , Barbed with frontlet of steel , I trow , And with Jedwood - axe at saddle - bow ;? ' See Appendix , Note B. " Of a truth , " says Froissart , " the Scottish cannot boast great skill with the bow ...
... Stood saddled in stable day and night , Barbed with frontlet of steel , I trow , And with Jedwood - axe at saddle - bow ;? ' See Appendix , Note B. " Of a truth , " says Froissart , " the Scottish cannot boast great skill with the bow ...
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... stood , ' When Mathouse - burn to Melrose ran , All purple with their blood ; And well she knew , her mother dread , Before Lord Cranstoun she should wed , 2 Would see her on her dying bed . ' The family of Ker , Kerr , or Carr , 3 was ...
... stood , ' When Mathouse - burn to Melrose ran , All purple with their blood ; And well she knew , her mother dread , Before Lord Cranstoun she should wed , 2 Would see her on her dying bed . ' The family of Ker , Kerr , or Carr , 3 was ...
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... stood . To fence the rights of fair Melrose ; And lands and livings , many a rood , Had gifted the shrine for their souls ' repose . * III . Bold Deloraine his errand said ; The porter bent his humble head ; With torch in hand , and ...
... stood . To fence the rights of fair Melrose ; And lands and livings , many a rood , Had gifted the shrine for their souls ' repose . * III . Bold Deloraine his errand said ; The porter bent his humble head ; With torch in hand , and ...
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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