The Spaewife: A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles, Band 1Oliver & Boyd, 1823 - 318 Seiten |
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Anniple arms Balloch castle began Bishop Finlay blood bold brother Mungo brought cause Celts chamber CHAP chief Chieftain Countess of Ross cried crown daughter discern discourse door doubt dreadful Duchess Duchess of Albany Duke Murdoch Duke of Albany Dumbarton Dunblane Earl of Atholl Earl of Lennox Elizabeth Mure endeavour exclaimed eyes Faider Mungo fear fortunes forward Friar Mungo friends Glenfruin grieved hall hand head hear heard heart hills homage honour house of Albany Inchmurin justice King James King's kinsman Lady Sibilla laid laidie lands looked Lord Atholl Lord James Stuart Lord Peeshop Majesty manner night noble oomph pass Prince prisoner Queen retired Robin Stuart round royal rushing Scone Scotland shelty Sir Patrick Haliburton Sir Robert Græme smile soon sorrow Sowlls and podies Spaewife spirit stand Stirling stood tell thing thought tion told town treason trial wife ye'll young Lord
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Seite 296 - 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 13 - I'ma benweed that the fairies have dressed in the likeness o' a Christian creature, and left in the stead o' the weaver's wife's bairn, that they carried away into the fairy-land ayont the seas and aneath the hills. But the fairies have nae power to put heavenly souls intil their effigies, which is the cause, folks say, that I have a want of some o
Seite 65 - 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 76 - 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 121 - By the help of God, though I should myself lead the life of a dog, I shall make the key keep the castle, and the bush secure the cow...
Seite 45 - When the fairies made me up o' a benweed, and laid me among the tow for the weaver's wife's bonny lassie bairn, I was a thing made to suffer aversion. Therefore it is that all Christian creatures hate me ; — that folks flee frae the sight o' me ; — that wives draw in their weans and shut their doors when I gang by ; — that I maun eat beans frae the shawp, and corn frae" the stalk ; — that the wicked rain pursues me, and the cruel haii pelts me ; — that the cold wind bites me, and the fire-flaughts...
Seite 37 - The children then ran off as if they had been terrified; and Stuart dismounting, gave his horse to his groom, and walked alone to the hovel, from which, as he approached, a colley-dog, to all appearance in voice and gesture, came ragingly forth, and seemed, for a time and season, resolved to debar him from advancing nearer towards his mistress ; who...
Seite 122 - 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 41 - Tyke, take it ben the house again." The dog obeyed, and his mistress began to churme in a musical manner to herself, and to toss the straws which covered her lap, first with the fore-finger of the left hand, and syne with the similar finger of her right, taking no farther heed of the young prince, who stood wondering and fearful beside her. After the lapse of several minutes, she looked up and said, " Are ye aye there yet, Robin Stuart?
Seite 180 - The path from the castle to where the boat 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...