Landscape - historical illustrations of Scotland, and the Waverley novels: from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, Balmer [and others]. Descriptions by G.N. WrightFisher, Son, & Company, 1836 |
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... Lady Waverley ! ten thousand a year ! " Edinburgh - March of the Highlanders 19 11 Carlisle Castle - Execution of Fergus Mac Ivor and Evan Dhu . GUY MANNERING - Dirk Hatteraick pursued by the Sloop of War 13 15 The Waste of Cumberland ...
... Lady Waverley ! ten thousand a year ! " Edinburgh - March of the Highlanders 19 11 Carlisle Castle - Execution of Fergus Mac Ivor and Evan Dhu . GUY MANNERING - Dirk Hatteraick pursued by the Sloop of War 13 15 The Waste of Cumberland ...
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... Lady Charlotte Campbell , ) who had drunk deeply at some unearthly fountain ; and , resigning Percy's reliques , one of his youthful associates , sought a companionship with Lewis on his unusual path to fame . It was at this crisis of ...
... Lady Charlotte Campbell , ) who had drunk deeply at some unearthly fountain ; and , resigning Percy's reliques , one of his youthful associates , sought a companionship with Lewis on his unusual path to fame . It was at this crisis of ...
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... Lady of the Lake , Rokeby , Lord of the Isles , and editions of the works of the most celebrated English poets and essayists . Having done so much for poetry , he felt he still owed an allegiance to her humbler sister ; and , whether ...
... Lady of the Lake , Rokeby , Lord of the Isles , and editions of the works of the most celebrated English poets and essayists . Having done so much for poetry , he felt he still owed an allegiance to her humbler sister ; and , whether ...
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... ladies of Caledonia to present his Majesty with a rich jewelled cross of St. Andrew , to be worn by him as an emblem of ... Lady Scott , whose marriage has been already spoken of , died on the 15th May , 1826 , leaving two sons and two ...
... ladies of Caledonia to present his Majesty with a rich jewelled cross of St. Andrew , to be worn by him as an emblem of ... Lady Scott , whose marriage has been already spoken of , died on the 15th May , 1826 , leaving two sons and two ...
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... Lady Heron's Song . The borderers are in the habit of crossing the sands of the Firth , from shore to shore , at low water ; a perilous undertaking , and not unfrequently attended with fatal conse- quences . The most experienced have ...
... Lady Heron's Song . The borderers are in the habit of crossing the sands of the Firth , from shore to shore , at low water ; a perilous undertaking , and not unfrequently attended with fatal conse- quences . The most experienced have ...
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Abbot amongst ancient Anne of Geierstein Antiquary appeared arms battle beautiful boat called Captain castle chapel character church countenance Crag death distance Duke Dunbarton Earl Edinburgh England English Engraved escape exclaimed fair Fast Castle father feet Firth fortress garrison Gilsland Guy Mannering hand head Henry Highland hills honour horse huge Innerleithen J. M. W. TURNER Jeanie Kenilworth king knight lady lake land Landlord Loch look Lord master Melville miles monks murder Nigel noble occasion occupied Old Mortality Osbaldistone palace passed Perth Peveril possessed prince Queen Redgauntlet river river Leven Rob Roy rock romantic royal scene scenery Scotland Scott Scottish seat seemed Shafton SHAKSPEARE shore side Sir Kenneth Sir Walter Smailholm Tower Solway Firth spot stood sword thee thou tower Tressilian vale Varangian vicinity village walls Waverley Waverley Novels Wayland wild Wolf's Hope young
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Página 46 - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.
Página 10 - 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.
Página 49 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Página 24 - The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation of towering clouds through which he had travelled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire, and falling monarch.
Página 7 - The scene was singularly romantic. On the verge of a wood, which approached to within a mile of the town of Ashby, was an extensive meadow, of the finest and most beautiful green turf, surrounded on one side by the forest, and fringed on the other by straggling oaktrees, some of which had grown to an immense size.
Página 56 - He could not tell how lang he lay in a trance at the door, but when he gathered himself, he cried on his neighbour, and getting nae answer, raised the house, when Dougal was found lying dead within twa steps of the bed where his master's coffin was placed. As for the whistle, it was...
Página 31 - ... his fine features, that the warders, struck with his rich attire and noble countenance, suffered him to approach the ground over which the queen was to pass, somewhat closer than was permitted to ordinary spectators.
Página 31 - The night had been rainy, and just where the young gentleman st'ood, a small quantity of mud interrupted the Queen's passage. As she hesitated to pass on, the gallant, throwing his cloak from his shoulders, laid it on the miry spot, so as to insure her stepping over it dry-shod.
Página 15 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes! Her white wings flying - never from her foes She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 56 - Robert was blowing it, and up got the twa auld serving-men, and tottered into the room where the dead man lay. Hutcheon saw aneugh at the first glance ; for there were torches in the room, which showed him the foul fiend, in his ain shape, sitting on the Laird's coffin ! Over he cowped as if he had been dead.