The Lay of the Last Minstrel: With Ballads, Songs, and Miscellaneous PoemsC.S. Francis & Company, 1845 - 352 Seiten |
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... Marches came ; The Bloody Heart blazed in the van , Announcing Douglas , dreaded name ! 1 Vails not to tell what steeds did spurn , Where the Seven Spears of Wedderburne Their men in battle - order set ; And Swinton laid the lance in ...
... Marches came ; The Bloody Heart blazed in the van , Announcing Douglas , dreaded name ! 1 Vails not to tell what steeds did spurn , Where the Seven Spears of Wedderburne Their men in battle - order set ; And Swinton laid the lance in ...
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... Marches , was killed in 1600 by a band of the Armstrongs , returning from a foot - ball match . Sir Robert Carey , in his Memoirs , mentions a great meeting , appointed by the Scotch riders to be held at Kelso for the purpose of playing ...
... Marches , was killed in 1600 by a band of the Armstrongs , returning from a foot - ball match . Sir Robert Carey , in his Memoirs , mentions a great meeting , appointed by the Scotch riders to be held at Kelso for the purpose of playing ...
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... Marches , Baron of Roslin , Pentland , Pentland - moor , & c . , Knight of the Cockle , and of the Garter , ( as is affirmed , ) High Chancel- lor , Chamberlain , and Lieutenant of Scotland . This lofty person , whose titles , says ...
... Marches , Baron of Roslin , Pentland , Pentland - moor , & c . , Knight of the Cockle , and of the Garter , ( as is affirmed , ) High Chancel- lor , Chamberlain , and Lieutenant of Scotland . This lofty person , whose titles , says ...
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... Marches of Scotland . His death was the consequence of a feud betwixt the Scotts and Kerrs , the history of which is necessary , to explain repeated allusions in the romance . In the year 1526 , in the words of Pitscottie , " the Earl ...
... Marches of Scotland . His death was the consequence of a feud betwixt the Scotts and Kerrs , the history of which is necessary , to explain repeated allusions in the romance . In the year 1526 , in the words of Pitscottie , " the Earl ...
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... Marches of Scotland , as well as they had in Ingland , he shoulde kepe your highness instructions , gyffyn unto your garyson , for making of any day - forrey ; for he and his friends wolde burne enough on the nyght , lettyng your ...
... Marches of Scotland , as well as they had in Ingland , he shoulde kepe your highness instructions , gyffyn unto your garyson , for making of any day - forrey ; for he and his friends wolde burne enough on the nyght , lettyng your ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient Appendix arms ballad band Bard Baron BATTLE OF SEMPACH betwixt blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch called CANTO Carlisle castle chase Chief Clair clan Count Albert courser Cranstoun Dacre Dame dark dead Deloraine Douglas dread Earl Ettrick Ettrick Forest fair forest FROISSART gallant hall hand harp head hear heard heart horse hound King knight lady Ladye Laird lances land LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord loud maid Melrose Melrose Abbey Mickledale MINSTREL Minstrelsy moss-trooper Mount Lebanon mountain Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Moringer Note o'er poem pray'd ride rode round Saint Scotland Scots Scott Scottish Scottish Border seem'd shalt Sir William slain song spear steed sword ta'en tale tear tell Teviot's thee Thomas Musgrave thou tide tower Twas Virgilius voice Walter warriors wave ween wild William of Deloraine
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 27 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of, Border chivalry; For, well-a-day!
Seite 149 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him well...
Seite 50 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory...
Seite 327 - Diamonds on the brake are gleaming : And foresters have busy been, 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 frayed ; You shall see him brought to bay, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Seite 44 - In Eske or Liddel, fords were none, But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow, or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight, or matin prime : Steady of heart, and stout of hand, As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been, By England's King, and Scotland's Queen.
Seite 168 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle ; Each one the holy vault doth hold — But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St. Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds The dirge of lovely Rosabelle, [sung, XXIV.
Seite 175 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?
Seite 166 - Tis not because the ring they ride, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my sire the wine will chide If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle.
Seite 149 - Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Seite 306 - Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide ; All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied. On the right, Striden-edge round...