The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volumen1Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson A. Walker & son, Limited, 1896 |
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... round the festive board . Accordingly Mr. John Telfer , the present highly respected president of the Union , after ventilating the subject in a series of letters to the Border newspapers in the autumn of 1874 , called a meeting at ...
... round the festive board . Accordingly Mr. John Telfer , the present highly respected president of the Union , after ventilating the subject in a series of letters to the Border newspapers in the autumn of 1874 , called a meeting at ...
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... round thee spread , A softness still and holy , The grace of forest charms decayed , And pastoral melancholy . " It was perhaps this " meek loveliness " and " pastoral melancholy " which helped to soothe the physical distraction of the ...
... round thee spread , A softness still and holy , The grace of forest charms decayed , And pastoral melancholy . " It was perhaps this " meek loveliness " and " pastoral melancholy " which helped to soothe the physical distraction of the ...
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... round Selkirk toun , Where forest flowers are fairest , Ilka lassie's stricken doun Wi ' the fate that fa's the sairest . A ' the lads they used to meet By Ettrick Braes or Yarrow , Lyin ' thrammelt head and feet In Brankstone's deadly ...
... round Selkirk toun , Where forest flowers are fairest , Ilka lassie's stricken doun Wi ' the fate that fa's the sairest . A ' the lads they used to meet By Ettrick Braes or Yarrow , Lyin ' thrammelt head and feet In Brankstone's deadly ...
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... round in shape , and resembling a gigantic plum - pudding . While the storm was still raging outside , the two boys seated them- selves behind the plum - pudding and amused themselves with speculating how short - lived would be its ...
... round in shape , and resembling a gigantic plum - pudding . While the storm was still raging outside , the two boys seated them- selves behind the plum - pudding and amused themselves with speculating how short - lived would be its ...
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... round in shape , and of a totally different geological composition from the soft and friable stone found in the quarry . Tradition named the enormous boulder " Samson's Putting - stone , " from the fact , probably , that Samson had ...
... round in shape , and of a totally different geological composition from the soft and friable stone found in the quarry . Tradition named the enormous boulder " Samson's Putting - stone , " from the fact , probably , that Samson had ...
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Página 165 - For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Página 205 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell.
Página 6 - ... rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again. Lift up your hearts, ye mourners ! for the might Of the whole world's good wishes with him goes ; Blessings and prayers in nobler retinue Than sceptred king or laurelled conqueror knows, Follow this wondrous potentate....
Página 6 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height. Spirits of power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again and yet again.
Página 56 - 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.
Página 196 - Rushed with bare bosom on the spear, And flung the feeble targe aside, And with both hands the broadsword plied, 'Twas vain: — But Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheered Scotland's fight.
Página 148 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 77 - By this he meant magical power, to which he had himself some vague pretensions, or which, at least, he had studied and reflected upon till it had become with him a kind of monomania. Scott disavowed the possession of any gifts of that kind, evidently to the great disappointment of the inquirer, who then turned round and gave a signal to a huge black cat, hitherto unobserved, which immediately jumped up to a shelf, where it perched itself, and seemed to the excited senses of the visitors as if it...
Página 77 - After grinning upon him for a moment with a smile less bitter than his wont, the Dwarf passed to the door, double-locked it, and then coming up to the stranger, seized him by the wrist with one of his iron hands, and said :
Página 180 - Troop after troop are disappearing ; Troop after troop their banners rearing, Upon the eastern bank you see. Still pouring down the rocky den, Where flows the sullen Till, And rising from the dim-wood glen...