 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 pages
...tongues; their plaintive ditties, re- XXIX. sounding with his exploits, and inviting his return. 174.6. Again, in these strains, do they declare themselves...bounden duty of the government. With every sympathy for individual suffering — with every allowance for the fervour of mistaken loyalty t, or for the... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pages
...added, that his have no hesitation in rejecting it. head was cut off and passed for that of Charles, life and fortune for his cause ; and even maternal...yields to the passionate devotion to " Prince Charlie (1)." On the rebellion being finally quelled, the punishment of its principal chiefs and instigators... | |
 | Karl Ludwig Klose - 1845 - 416 pages
...familiar to their tongues ; their plaintive ditties resounding with his exploits, and inviting his return. Again, in these strains, do they declare themselves...yields to the passionate devotion to ' Prince Charlie.' " * As long as the hills of Scotland stand, says Sir Walter Scott, the disinterested fidelity shown... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1846 - 310 pages
...familiar to their tongues : their plaintive ditties resounding with his exploits, and inviting his return. Again, in these strains, do they declare themselves...passionate devotion to ' PRINCE CHARLIE.' " On the 29th of September, after a prosperous voyage, Charles landed at Roscoff, near Morlaix, in France, from... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Scotland - 1849 - 304 pages
...familiar to their tongues, their plaintive ditties resounding with his exploits and inviting his return. Again, in these strains, do they declare themselves...yields to the passionate devotion to Prince Charlie." The subsequent life of the Prince is a story of melancholy interest. We find him at first received... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Scotland - 1849 - 300 pages
...familiar to their tongues, their plaintive ditties resounding with his exploits and inviting his return. Again, in these strains, do they declare themselves...maternal fondness— the strongest, perhaps, of all human feelings—yields to the passionate devotion to Prince Charlie." The subsequent life of the Prince... | |
 | LORD MAHON - 1851 - 210 pages
...to their tongues ; their plaintive ditties, resounding with his exploits, and inviting his return. Again in these strains, do they declare themselves...desire of the people, and undoubtedly also the bounden of Chevalier Johnstone (Memoirs, p. 207.), and therefore I have no hesitation in rejecting it. •... | |
 | LORD MAHON - 1851 - 210 pages
...to their tongues ; their plaintive ditties, resounding with his exploits, and inviting his return. Again in these strains, do they declare themselves...maternal fondness, — the strongest perhaps of all human feelings,—yields to the passionate devotion to " Prince Charlie." * On the rebellion being finally... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 634 pages
...their tongues ; their plaintive 746. ditties resounding with his exploits, and inviting his return. Again in these strains, do they declare themselves...earnest desire of the people, and undoubtedly also the bound en duty of the government. With every sympathy for individual suffering — with every allowance... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 470 pages
...to their tongues ; their plaintive ditties, resounding with his exploits, and inviting his return. Again in these strains, do they declare themselves...principal chiefs and instigators became the earnest de* "I ance had sons, but now hae nane, "I bred them toiling sairly; "And I wad bear them a' again... | |
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He went—but not with him departed his remembrance from the Highlanders. For years and years did his name continue enshrined in their hearts and familiar to their tongues ; their plaintive ditties, resounding with his exploits, and inviting his return.... 
