The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5 |
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... James's Powders , nor Daffy's Elixir , nor any of those infallible nostrums which your charity distributes among our village patients , undiscouraged by the obstinacy of those who occasionally die , in despite both of the medicine and ...
... James's Powders , nor Daffy's Elixir , nor any of those infallible nostrums which your charity distributes among our village patients , undiscouraged by the obstinacy of those who occasionally die , in despite both of the medicine and ...
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... James , when , returned from the post - office at * * * , * he delivers with an air of triumph the long - expected despatches , and then , smoothing his grey hairs with one hand , and holding with the other the handle of the door ...
... James , when , returned from the post - office at * * * , * he delivers with an air of triumph the long - expected despatches , and then , smoothing his grey hairs with one hand , and holding with the other the handle of the door ...
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... James Hall of Dunglass , Bart .; and the young lady reached the Nether- lands in time to witness his death . ] [ Brother of the Earl of Aberdeen , who has erected a monument on the spot where he received his wound . ] 5 : acting as aid ...
... James Hall of Dunglass , Bart .; and the young lady reached the Nether- lands in time to witness his death . ] [ Brother of the Earl of Aberdeen , who has erected a monument on the spot where he received his wound . ] 5 : acting as aid ...
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... James of Douglas , who , lying in the mountainous wilds of Cairntable , and favoured by the intelligence which he maintained among his vassals , took opportunity of the slightest relaxation of vigilance to surprise the fortress . At ...
... James of Douglas , who , lying in the mountainous wilds of Cairntable , and favoured by the intelligence which he maintained among his vassals , took opportunity of the slightest relaxation of vigilance to surprise the fortress . At ...
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... made prisoners by others , and ever pressing forward where resistance was offered . Thus they fought in the chief of the battle until Lord James Audley was sorely wounded , and his breath failed him . 226 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
... made prisoners by others , and ever pressing forward where resistance was offered . Thus they fought in the chief of the battle until Lord James Audley was sorely wounded , and his breath failed him . 226 ESSAY ON CHIVALRY .
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Popular passages
Page 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Page 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Page 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 291 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Page 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Page 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Page 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 296 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.