The Betrothed: And The Highland WidowTicknor and Fields, 1868 |
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Abbess Amelot ancient answered arms attendants Baldringham barbed horses Ben Cruachan betwixt blood called castle character command Constable Constable of Chester countenance Croftangry Dame Gillian Damian de Lacy danger daughter death Dunbarton Elspat Eveline Berenger Eveline's eyes faith Father Aldrovand favour fear feelings Fleming Flemish Garde Doloureuse gentlemen Genvil give Glentanner Guarine Gwenwyn Hamish hand hast hastily hath hear heard heart Heaven Highland Holy honour horse Hugo de Lacy Jorworth King Lady Eveline Loch Awe look lord MacTavish Mhor maiden manner master minstrel mistress monk mother never night noble Norman occasion Oldbuck passed perhaps person Prelate present Prince Prince of Powys purpose Raoul Raymond Berenger rendered replied Rose Saint Dunstan Saxon Scotland seemed soldier speak spoke sword thee thou art thought tion tone Vidal voice Welsh Wilkin Flammock words young youth
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Сторінка 236 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Сторінка 153 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our >nfant institution.
Сторінка 146 - Unknown — the minstrel of our native land — the mighty magician who has rolled back the current of time, and conjured up before our living senses the men and the manners of days which have long passed away, stands revealed to the eyes and the hearts of his affectionate and admiring countrymen.
Сторінка 149 - Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed ? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Сторінка 152 - The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again towards childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Сторінка 211 - A horse ;' and then, with a sigh more like the wind than breath she vanished, and to me her body looked more like a thick cloud than substance. I was so much frightened, that my hair stood on end, and my night clothes fell off.