The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5 |
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... Saxons ; and in France , betrayed , as they pretended , by Marmont . Besides , a great part of the soldiers who , in 1814-15 , filled the French ranks , had been prisoners of war during Bonaparte's last unfortunate campaigns , and he ...
... Saxons ; and in France , betrayed , as they pretended , by Marmont . Besides , a great part of the soldiers who , in 1814-15 , filled the French ranks , had been prisoners of war during Bonaparte's last unfortunate campaigns , and he ...
Page 45
... Saxon general , Thielman , against Maréchal Grouchy ; and the Prussians , though driven from the villages in front of the amphitheatre of hills , still maintained their alignement upon the heights themselves , impa- tiently expecting to ...
... Saxon general , Thielman , against Maréchal Grouchy ; and the Prussians , though driven from the villages in front of the amphitheatre of hills , still maintained their alignement upon the heights themselves , impa- tiently expecting to ...
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... Saxons . At its first infusion , it appeared to soften the character of the people among whom it was introduced so much , as to render them less warlike than their heathen neighbours . Thus the pagan Danes ravaged England when inhabited ...
... Saxons . At its first infusion , it appeared to soften the character of the people among whom it was introduced so much , as to render them less warlike than their heathen neighbours . Thus the pagan Danes ravaged England when inhabited ...
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... Saxon Chronicle , is a genuine and curious example of this aboriginal style of poetry . Even at this early period , there may be observed a distinction betwixt what may be called the Temporal and Spiritual Romances ; the first destined ...
... Saxon Chronicle , is a genuine and curious example of this aboriginal style of poetry . Even at this early period , there may be observed a distinction betwixt what may be called the Temporal and Spiritual Romances ; the first destined ...
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... Saxon warriors of distinction , and was himself killed by a third . Ritson , with less than his usual severe accuracy , supposed that Taillefer sung some part of a long metrical Romance upon Roland and his history ; but the words ...
... Saxon warriors of distinction , and was himself killed by a third . Ritson , with less than his usual severe accuracy , supposed that Taillefer sung some part of a long metrical Romance upon Roland and his history ; but the words ...
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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.