The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: The lay of the last minstrel, and The lady of the lakeJ. Nichol, 1857 |
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... Scottish nature of which he became the most ideal , yet minute , the most lingering and loving depicter . He was soon recalled to Edinburgh , where he went instantly to Hill's Humanity ( or Latin ) and to Dalziell's Greek class , at ...
... Scottish nature of which he became the most ideal , yet minute , the most lingering and loving depicter . He was soon recalled to Edinburgh , where he went instantly to Hill's Humanity ( or Latin ) and to Dalziell's Greek class , at ...
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... Scottish Border , " the publication of which became an era in the history of James Ballantyne , of Scott , of Scottish poetry , and of litera- ture in general . In December this year , through the influ- ence of the Earl of Dalkeith ...
... Scottish Border , " the publication of which became an era in the history of James Ballantyne , of Scott , of Scottish poetry , and of litera- ture in general . In December this year , through the influ- ence of the Earl of Dalkeith ...
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Walter Scott George Gilfillan. " Scottish Dictionary , " himself a mine of antique lore , even richer than his book ; and the famous John Leyden , the most determined of students , and most eccentric of men - a " gigan- tic genius ...
Walter Scott George Gilfillan. " Scottish Dictionary , " himself a mine of antique lore , even richer than his book ; and the famous John Leyden , the most determined of students , and most eccentric of men - a " gigan- tic genius ...
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... Scottish laird . He bought a hundred acres for £ 4000 , bor- rowing £ 2000 from his brother John , and raising £ 2000 through the Ballantynes , on the strength of a new poem which he meant to write . This was " Rokeby . " His friend ...
... Scottish laird . He bought a hundred acres for £ 4000 , bor- rowing £ 2000 from his brother John , and raising £ 2000 through the Ballantynes , on the strength of a new poem which he meant to write . This was " Rokeby . " His friend ...
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... Scottish coasts " ) . At this point , which may be called the culminating , if not cul- minated , point in Scott's career , we pause till our next volume . Yet , ere closing , let us linger a moment on the fact of the publication of ...
... Scottish coasts " ) . At this point , which may be called the culminating , if not cul- minated , point in Scott's career , we pause till our next volume . Yet , ere closing , let us linger a moment on the fact of the publication of ...
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Page 92 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 286 - His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 109 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! Hushed is the harp — the Minstrel...
Page 7 - Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry...
Page 24 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 39 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 8 - Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Page 214 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Page 104 - The blackening wave is edged with white ; To inch and rock the sea-mews fly ; The fishers have heard the water-sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. " Last night the gifted seer did view A wet shroud swathed round ladye gay ; Then stay thee, fair, in Ravensheuch : Why cross the gloomy firth to-day...
Page 104 - And glimmered all the dead men's mail Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair — So still they blaze, when fate is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair.