A legend of MontroseArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company 90, Cheapside, London., 1819 - 334 Seiten |
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Allan M'Aulay Annot Lyle answered Dalgetty apartment Argyle's Argyleshire arms army attendants Auchenbreck battle betwixt blood boards called camp Captain Dalgetty castle cavaliers chief Children clan command Covenanters Dalgetty's dark Darnlinvarach Diarmid dress Drumthwacket dungeon Earl of Menteith enemy expeditus farther fate followers Foolscap 8vo gallery gentlemen getty glen Glengary Gustavus Adolphus hand head heard Highland honour horse immortal Gustavus instantly Inverara Irish JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM King Knight of Ardenvohr lady lake land look Lord Menteith lordship Low Countries Lowland M'Callum Major Dalgetty Mareschal College Marquis of Argyle Marquis's means ment military Mist Montrose Montrose's mountains Murdoch never noble outlaw pass person Ranald MacEagh rank replied respect retreat Sassenach scarce sconce Scotland Scottish secure shew Sir Dugald Sir Dun Sir Duncan Campbell soldier Strath Fillan sword tain thee thou tion trose vengeance voice vols whilk wild wound
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Seite 294 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Seite 58 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Seite 147 - I'll smiling mock at thy neglect, And never love thee more. But if no faithless action stain Thy love and constant word, I'll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword...
Seite 148 - Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.
Seite 276 - So high in thoughts as I : You left a kiss Upon these lips then, which I mean to keep From you for ever. I did hear you talk Far above singing ! After you were gone, I grew acquainted with my heart, and search'd What stirr'd it so : Alas ! I found it love ; Yet far from lust ; for could I but have lived In presence of you, I had had my end.
Seite 328 - Of his farther history we know nothing, until we find him in possession of his paternal estate of Drumthwacket, which he acquired, not by the sword, but by a pacific intermarriage with Hannah Strachan, a matron somewhat stricken in years, the widow of the Aberdeenshire Covenanter. Sir Dugald is supposed to have survived the Revolution, as traditions of no very distant date represent him as cruising about in that country, very old, very deaf, and very full of interminable stories about the immortal...