The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volumen 1Little, Brown & Company; Shepard, Clark and Brown, 1857 |
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... knight - errantry , and exer- cised their invention in composing and relating to each other interminable tales modelled on their favourite books . The vocation of the romance- writer and poet of chivalry was thus already fixed . His ...
... knight - errantry , and exer- cised their invention in composing and relating to each other interminable tales modelled on their favourite books . The vocation of the romance- writer and poet of chivalry was thus already fixed . His ...
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... The tables were drawn , it was idlesse all ; Knight , and page , and household squire , Loiter'd through the lofty hall , Or crowded round the ample fire : 1 See Appendix , Note A. The stag - hounds , weary with the chase ,
... The tables were drawn , it was idlesse all ; Knight , and page , and household squire , Loiter'd through the lofty hall , Or crowded round the ample fire : 1 See Appendix , Note A. The stag - hounds , weary with the chase ,
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... the same time that they suggest , in a very interesting way , all those softer sentiments which arise out of some parts of the description . " - JEFFREY . ] III . Nine - and - twenty knights of fame 44 [ CANTO I. THE LAY OF.
... the same time that they suggest , in a very interesting way , all those softer sentiments which arise out of some parts of the description . " - JEFFREY . ] III . Nine - and - twenty knights of fame 44 [ CANTO I. THE LAY OF.
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... knights of mettle true , Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch . IV . Ten of them were sheathed in steel , With belted sword , and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright , Neither by day , nor yet by night : They lay down to rest ...
... knights of mettle true , Kinsmen to the bold Buccleuch . IV . Ten of them were sheathed in steel , With belted sword , and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright , Neither by day , nor yet by night : They lay down to rest ...
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... knight is here ; But he , the chieftain of them all , His sword hangs rusting on the wall , . Beside his broken spear . Bards long shall tell , How Lord Walter fell ! 2 When startled burghers fled , afar , The furies of the Border war ...
... knight is here ; But he , the chieftain of them all , His sword hangs rusting on the wall , . Beside his broken spear . Bards long shall tell , How Lord Walter fell ! 2 When startled burghers fled , afar , The furies of the Border war ...
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ALPHEUS FELCH ancient appeared Appendix arms ballad band Bard Baron Beattisons beneath betwixt blood Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO castle chief Clair clan courser Cranstoun Dacre Dame dead Deloraine Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Edinburgh English Eskdale Ettrick Ettrick Forest father friends hall hand Harden harp heard highnes horse James Jedburgh King knight Knight of Liddesdale Lady Ladye lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale literary Lord manner Melrose Melrose Abbey Mickledale Minstrelsy moss-troopers Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er pass'd poem poet poetical poetry ride rode romance Roslin round rung sayd scene Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border Seem'd Selkirkshire shulde Sir Walter Sir William slain song spear spirit stanzas steed stood sword Teviot's Teviotdale Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tion tower tyme Virgilius Walter Scott warriors wild William of Deloraine wound
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Página 92 - 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.
Página 65 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Página 36 - Stuarts' throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had call'd his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorn'd and poor, He begg'd his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Página 38 - 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 adversity...
Página 163 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Página 66 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Página 199 - Tis not because the ring they ride, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my sire the wine will chide If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle.
Página 199 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam ; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire light, And redder than the bright moonbeam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen ; 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from...
Página 40 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied : And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the latest minstrel sung.
Página 180 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...