The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Volume 1Constable, 1820 |
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Page 94
... Sent forth the larum peal ; Was frequent heard the heavy jar , Where massy stone and iron bar Were piled on echoing keep and tower , To whelm the foe with deadly shower ; Was frequent heard the changing guard , And watchword from the ...
... Sent forth the larum peal ; Was frequent heard the heavy jar , Where massy stone and iron bar Were piled on echoing keep and tower , To whelm the foe with deadly shower ; Was frequent heard the changing guard , And watchword from the ...
Page 148
... sent it to the Laird of Buccleuch , beseeching him that he would come with his kin and friends , and all the force that he might be , and meet him at Melross , at his home - passing , and there to take him out of the Douglasses hands ...
... sent it to the Laird of Buccleuch , beseeching him that he would come with his kin and friends , and all the force that he might be , and meet him at Melross , at his home - passing , and there to take him out of the Douglasses hands ...
Page 159
... sent many of them to Carlisle , to that place where the officer doth always his work by day - light . Yet these moss - troopers , if possibly they could procure the pardon for a condemned person of their company , would advance great ...
... sent many of them to Carlisle , to that place where the officer doth always his work by day - light . Yet these moss - troopers , if possibly they could procure the pardon for a condemned person of their company , would advance great ...
Page 165
... sent out his attendants by two and two , but no one returned with tidings . At length , when he was left alone , the sound was heard still louder . The champion descended , sword in hand ; and , at the gate of the tower , was ...
... sent out his attendants by two and two , but no one returned with tidings . At length , when he was left alone , the sound was heard still louder . The champion descended , sword in hand ; and , at the gate of the tower , was ...
Page 178
... sent to bring the Maid of Norway to Scotland upon the death of Alexander III . By a poetical anachronism , he is here placed in a later æra . He was a man of much learning , chiefly acquired in foreign countries . He wrote a Commentary ...
... sent to bring the Maid of Norway to Scotland upon the death of Alexander III . By a poetical anachronism , he is here placed in a later æra . He was a man of much learning , chiefly acquired in foreign countries . He wrote a Commentary ...
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Page 41 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 13 - Where she with all her ladies sate, Perchance he wished his boon denied : For, when to tune his harp he tried, His trembling hand had lost the ease Which marks security to please...
Page 10 - Stuart's throne ; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door ; And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp, a king had loved to hear.
Page 9 - 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 ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.
Page 48 - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 49 - Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his Cross of Red Triumphant Michael brandished, And trampled the Apostate's pride. The moon-beam kissed the holy pane, And threw on the pavement a bloody stain.
Page 12 - And would the noble duchess deign To listen to an old man's strain, Though stiff his hand, his voice though weak, He thought even yet, the sooth to speak, That if she loved the harp to hear, He could make music to her ear.
Page 167 - But what had my youth with ambition to do ? Why left I Amynta...
Page 47 - The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars, lofty, and light, and small : The key-stone, that locked each ribbed aisle, Was a fleur-de-lys, or a quatre-feuille ; The corbells* were carved grotesque and grim; And the pillars, with clustered shafts so trim, With base and with capital flourished around, Seemed bundles of lances which garlands had bound.
Page 17 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.