The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: The vision of Don RoderickLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, William Miller and John Murray, London; and for A. Constable and Company and John Ballantyne and Company Edinburgh, 1813 |
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... Flowers from a Roman Wall ... 153 The Bard's Incantation ...... The Resolve ................... 159 Epitaph 163 The Return to Ulster ........... 165 The Massacre of Glencoe ............ ....................................
... Flowers from a Roman Wall ... 153 The Bard's Incantation ...... The Resolve ................... 159 Epitaph 163 The Return to Ulster ........... 165 The Massacre of Glencoe ............ ....................................
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... bards or druids flung ; What time their hymn of victory arose , And Cattraeth's glens with voice of triumph rung , And mystic Merlin harp'd , and grey - hair'd Llywarch sung . > VIII . " Decayed our old traditionary lore , INTRODUCTION .
... bards or druids flung ; What time their hymn of victory arose , And Cattraeth's glens with voice of triumph rung , And mystic Merlin harp'd , and grey - hair'd Llywarch sung . > VIII . " Decayed our old traditionary lore , INTRODUCTION .
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... sympathy to pay ; Riches nor poverty the tax shall shun , Nor prince nor peer , the wealthy nor the gay , Nor the poor peasant's mite , nor bard's more worth- less lay . VIII . But thou - unfoughten wilt thou yield to CONCLUSION . 75.
... sympathy to pay ; Riches nor poverty the tax shall shun , Nor prince nor peer , the wealthy nor the gay , Nor the poor peasant's mite , nor bard's more worth- less lay . VIII . But thou - unfoughten wilt thou yield to CONCLUSION . 75.
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... But ye , the heroes of that well - fought day , How shall a bard , unknowing and unknown , His meed to each victorious leader pay , Or bind on every brow the laurels won ? Yet fain my harp would wake its boldest tone , 78 CONCLUSION .
... But ye , the heroes of that well - fought day , How shall a bard , unknowing and unknown , His meed to each victorious leader pay , Or bind on every brow the laurels won ? Yet fain my harp would wake its boldest tone , 78 CONCLUSION .
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... bard and monarch , was Prince of Argood , in Cumberland ; and his youthful exploits were performed upon the Border , al- though in his age he was driven into Powys by the suc- cesses of the Anglo - Saxons . As for Merlin Wyllt , or the ...
... bard and monarch , was Prince of Argood , in Cumberland ; and his youthful exploits were performed upon the Border , al- though in his age he was driven into Powys by the suc- cesses of the Anglo - Saxons . As for Merlin Wyllt , or the ...
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arms army bade band Banner Bard Barosa battle beneath blaze blithe bold Bolero British Buonaparte burst Chief of Kintail conquest Count Julian crest cuirassier dark Don Roderick dread enemy Ettrick Forest fair fame fatal fate fear fell field fierce fight fire flame forest French gallant glance glory goblet that flows Goths GRÆME hand harp hast hath havock hear heard heart Heaven heroes High Chief honour Hougomont king ladies gay land light lords and ladies Mackenzie mark'd Massena mingled minstrel Monarch's Moors mountain ne'er Norsemen Note o'er Oppas Orelia Portugal Prelate proud rage ranks ruins Saint Cloud Saracens scene Scotland shatter'd shout slain sleep song Spain Spanish squadrons stern storm sung sword tale thee thine thou Toledo tower Troubadour valour victory VISION OF DON voice waked Waken lords warriors WATERLOO Wheel the wild wild dance Zaragoza
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Página 208 - Wheeled full against their staggering flanks, The English horsemen's foaming ranks Forced their resistless way. Then to the musket-knell succeeds The clash of swords, the neigh of steeds, As plies the smith his clanging trade, Against the cuirass rang the blade...
Página 120 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Página 149 - You shall see him brought to bay, " Waken, lords and ladies gay." Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay ; Tell them, youth, and mirth, and glee, Run a course as well as we, Time, stern huntsman ! who can baulk, Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk? Think of this, and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay.
Página 149 - To track the buck in thicket green; Now we come to chant our lay 'Waken, lords and ladies gay.' " Waken, lords and ladies gay, To the greenwood haste away; We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot and tall of size; We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd; You shall see him brought to bay; 'Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 148 - Waken, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day; All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting-spear Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 151 - THE violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen, or copse, or forest dingle. Though fair her gems of azure hue, Beneath the dew-drop's weight reclining ; I've seen an eye of lovelier blue, More sweet through wat'ry lustre shining.
Página 120 - Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains : a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Página 207 - The lancer couch'd his ruthless spear, And hurrying as to havoc near, The cohorts' eagles flew. In one dark torrent, broad and strong, The advancing onset...
Página 143 - He came — he pass'd — an heedless gaze, As o'er some stranger glancing ; Her welcome, spoke in faltering phrase, Lost in his courser's prancing — The castle arch, whose hollow tone Returns each whisper spoken, Could scarcely catch the feeble moan, Which told her heart was broken.
Página 258 - PITT closed in his anguish the map of her reign ! 'ot the fate of broad Europe could bend his brave spirit To take for his country the safety of shame? O, then in her triumph remember his merit, And hallow the goblet that flows to his name.