The Spaewife. A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles, Band 1

Cover
H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1824 - 251 Seiten
 

Ausgewählte Seiten

Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen

Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 66 - if He grant me life, if He grant me but the life of a dog, I will make the key keep the castle and the bracken bush the cow.
Seite 143 - I arrest you in the name of all the three estates of your realm, here assembled in parliament j for, as your people have sworn to obey you, so are you constrained by an equal oath to govern by law, and not to wrong your subjects, but in justice to maintain and defend them.
Seite 217 - ... night. Sir Penny changes men's mood, And gars 2 them oft to don their hood, And to rise him again';3 Men honour him with great rev'rence, And make full meikle obedience Unto that little swain. 1 Disposed. * Causes. 8 Against, opposite. In king's court it is no boot...
Seite 25 - There was a wee white lambie playing beside its mother, on a bonny green knowe. It was an innocent thing, and I thought it looked kindly at me, which never man nor womankind had done ; but when I gaed to warm it in my arms, it too was frightened, and ran bleating away. All living creatures see and ken, that I'ma thing the holy Heavens had no hand in the making o'.
Seite 25 - I wish that the weaver's wife's wean were dead in the fairy-land, that I might lie on the loan what I am, a weed to be trampled on.
Seite 36 - Bishop Finlay had been raised by the patronage of Duke Murdoch to the dignity which he then held, but less for his lore and piety than for other qualities, which were thought in that age to be of an account as good in the management of the Highland schores.
Seite 41 - Bishop, and followed by the chieftains, there was, for joy, a skirling and screaming of bagpipes, dreadful to hear and wonderful to tell, as if the vehement pipers had each aneath his arm some desperate beast of prey, in the pangs and anguish of being squeezed to death.
Seite 25 - Stuart was melted to sadness by the -\nulmg simplicity of this complaint of her abject estate ; for though he could never think that a creature with so much sweet blood in her bosom, was a thing so fantastical as she reported herself to be, he was yet so filled with awe and strange wonderment by her prophetic breathings, that he could not but own...
Seite 36 - ... Pyment were also of doubtful parentage, and that honey added to spice made the difference of a cousinship between them. Often did he expatiate on the cordiality of Muscadell; and Grenada pleasant to ladies...
Seite 97 - The path from the castle to where the bo^t lay was through a scattered wood of natural oak, the overarching boughs of which made it as dark as midnight; and Friar Mungo, as he led the lady by the hand, and from time to time turned back to cheer her, often banned the...

Bibliografische Informationen