The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volumen 20R. Cadell, 1848 |
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... hand the wi- dowed Lady Brux , with a spirit well suited to the times , offered as a reward to any one who would avenge her husband's death . Robert Forbes , a younger son of the chief of that family , undertook the adventure ; and ...
... hand the wi- dowed Lady Brux , with a spirit well suited to the times , offered as a reward to any one who would avenge her husband's death . Robert Forbes , a younger son of the chief of that family , undertook the adventure ; and ...
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... hands and approach the persons of his detested enemies , the deadly feud broke forth . He unsheathed his dag . ger as he went down the dance - struck on the right and left - laid some dead and many wounded on the floor - threw up the ...
... hands and approach the persons of his detested enemies , the deadly feud broke forth . He unsheathed his dag . ger as he went down the dance - struck on the right and left - laid some dead and many wounded on the floor - threw up the ...
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... hand , and on the other the claymore made its instant appearance . The Lowlanders ( we have been assured from those concerned in such affrays ) were less abashed at the display of steel than might be supposed ; for at the first signal ...
... hand , and on the other the claymore made its instant appearance . The Lowlanders ( we have been assured from those concerned in such affrays ) were less abashed at the display of steel than might be supposed ; for at the first signal ...
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... eloquence to support their request , and address to take advantage even of the slightest appearance of concession . As they had on the one hand to act as a kind of ministry to the chief , so , on the other , 24 MISCELLANEOUS CRITICISM .
... eloquence to support their request , and address to take advantage even of the slightest appearance of concession . As they had on the one hand to act as a kind of ministry to the chief , so , on the other , 24 MISCELLANEOUS CRITICISM .
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... hands for such light work , none would work hard ; and those who could set up the slight- est claim of exemption , would not work at all . This was particularly the case with the tacksmen's younger sons , -a race destined to sink into ...
... hands for such light work , none would work hard ; and those who could set up the slight- est claim of exemption , would not work at all . This was particularly the case with the tacksmen's younger sons , -a race destined to sink into ...
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Página 168 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 93 - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me !
Página 95 - Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch ! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's ; for which I ought for ever to love and admire her, and do ; and persuade myself she would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it.
Página 106 - Garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.
Página 105 - I followed them up into Whitehall, and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one another's by one another's heads, and laughing.
Página 272 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of...
Página 29 - That they should take who had the power, And they should keep who can.
Página 135 - ... when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and at home, I was able to think of...
Página 105 - King took, methought, no notice of her; nor when they 'light did any body press (as she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but was taken down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of...
Página 118 - At noon home to dinner, and there find my wife extraordinary fine, with her flowered tabby gown that she made two years ago, now laced exceeding pretty ; and indeed was fine all over, and mighty earnest to go, though the day was very lowering ; and she would have me put on my fine suit, which I did. And so anon we went alone through the town with our new liveries of serge, and the horses...