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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... honoured my en- trance upon active life ; and I may add , with melancholy pride , who permitted my more advanced age to claim no common share in their friendship . Under such interruptions , the following verses , which my best and hap ...
... honoured my en- trance upon active life ; and I may add , with melancholy pride , who permitted my more advanced age to claim no common share in their friendship . Under such interruptions , the following verses , which my best and hap ...
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... honour's specious guise , Until he won the passes of the land ; Then , burst were honour's oath , and friend- ship's ties ! He clutch'd his vulture - grasp , and call'd fair Spain his prize . XXXVIII . An Iron Crown his anxious forehead ...
... honour's specious guise , Until he won the passes of the land ; Then , burst were honour's oath , and friend- ship's ties ! He clutch'd his vulture - grasp , and call'd fair Spain his prize . XXXVIII . An Iron Crown his anxious forehead ...
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... honour'd in defeat as victory ! For that sad pageant of events to be , Shew'd every form of fight by field and flood ; Slaughter and Ruin , shouting forth their glee , Beheld , while riding on the tempest scud , The waters choaked with ...
... honour'd in defeat as victory ! For that sad pageant of events to be , Shew'd every form of fight by field and flood ; Slaughter and Ruin , shouting forth their glee , Beheld , while riding on the tempest scud , The waters choaked with ...
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... honour due ! For never hath the harp of minstrel rung , Of faith so felly proved , so firmly true ! Mine , sap , and bomb , thy shatter'd ruins knew , Each art of war's extremity had room , Twice from thy half - sack'd streets the foe ...
... honour due ! For never hath the harp of minstrel rung , Of faith so felly proved , so firmly true ! Mine , sap , and bomb , thy shatter'd ruins knew , Each art of war's extremity had room , Twice from thy half - sack'd streets the foe ...
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Sir Walter Scott. She of the Column , honour'd be her name , By all , whate'er their creed , who honour love ! And like the sacred reliques of the flame , That gave some martyr to the bless'd above , To every loyal heart may thy sad ...
Sir Walter Scott. She of the Column , honour'd be her name , By all , whate'er their creed , who honour love ! And like the sacred reliques of the flame , That gave some martyr to the bless'd above , To every loyal heart may thy sad ...
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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.