Castle DangerousClassic Books Company, 2001 - 374 páginas From Scott's introduction: "The incidents on which the ensuing Novel mainly turns, are derived from the ancient Metrical Chronicle of "The Brace, " by Archdeacon Barbour, and from the "History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, " by David Hume of Godscroft; and are sustained by the immemorial tradition of the western parts of Scotland. They are so much in consonance with the spirit and manners of the troubled age to which they are referred, that I can see no reason for doubting their being founded in fact; the names, indeed, of numberless localities in the vicinity of Douglas Castle, appear to attest, beyond suspicion, many even of the smallest circumstances embraced in the story of Godscroft." |
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... hold the Castle of Douglas for a year and day , or surrender all hope of obtaining his mistress's favour , with the tragic consequences , softened in the Novel , is given at length in Godscroft , and has often been pointed out as one of ...
... hold the Castle of Douglas for a year and day , or surrender all hope of obtaining his mistress's favour , with the tragic consequences , softened in the Novel , is given at length in Godscroft , and has often been pointed out as one of ...
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... hold place in scenes of serious business as well as of gayety . A wayfaring passenger of wealth ( not at that time a numerous class ) might have feared in him a professional robber , or one whom opportunity was very likely to convert ...
... hold place in scenes of serious business as well as of gayety . A wayfaring passenger of wealth ( not at that time a numerous class ) might have feared in him a professional robber , or one whom opportunity was very likely to convert ...
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... hold so honourable a charge with a washed brow , and a head of hair somewhat ordered . As for going back without seeing a castle which has mingled even with my very dreams at a word , Bertram , thou mayst go that way , but I will not ...
... hold so honourable a charge with a washed brow , and a head of hair somewhat ordered . As for going back without seeing a castle which has mingled even with my very dreams at a word , Bertram , thou mayst go that way , but I will not ...
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... hold we on the nearest road to this Tom Dickson's , whose very sheep tell of his whereabout . I trust we have not very far to go , although the knowledge that our journey is shortened by a few miles has so much recovered my fatigue ...
... hold we on the nearest road to this Tom Dickson's , whose very sheep tell of his whereabout . I trust we have not very far to go , although the knowledge that our journey is shortened by a few miles has so much recovered my fatigue ...
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... brought to his house of Hazelside , in which you hold garrison , by orders from the English governor , Sir John de Walton , two strangers , to whom the said Thomas Dickson had promised refreshment , and 27 CASTLE DANGEROUS.
... brought to his house of Hazelside , in which you hold garrison , by orders from the English governor , Sir John de Walton , two strangers , to whom the said Thomas Dickson had promised refreshment , and 27 CASTLE DANGEROUS.
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abbot ancient answered Bertram appeared arms attended Augusta de Berkely Augustine Aymer de Valence BART Bruce called CASTLE DANGEROUS Castle of Douglas chivalry church command Dangerous Castle degree Douglas Castle Douglas Dale Douglasses duty Earl England English knight eyes Fabian faithful father favour fear garrison give governor hand hath Hazelside heard Heaven honour horse house of Douglas John de Walton King Knight of Valence Lady Augusta Lady of Berkely looked Lord Lord of Douglas Margaret de Hautlieu matter methinks Michael Turnbull mycht noble occasion Painted by SIR Pembroke person possessed present respect Saint Bride Scotland Scots Scottish seemed Sir Aymer Sir James Sir James Douglas Sir John Sir Knight Sir Minstrel SIR WALTER SCOTT sister Ursula soldiers suspicion sword tell thai thaim thee thine thing Thomas Dickson Thomas the Rhymer thought tion Turnbull word worship xxix young knight youth
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Página 89 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página ix - As I stood by yon roofless tower, Where the wa'-flower scents the dewy air, Where the howlet mourns in her ivy bower, And tells the midnight moon her care. The winds were laid, the air was still, The stars they shot alang the sky ; The fox was howling on the hill, And the distant-echoing glens reply.
Página 17 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I ; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Página 89 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted— ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, 425 The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 151 - It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep.' The streets, or rather the lanes, were dark, but for a shifting gleam of moonlight, which, as that planet began to rise, was now and then visible upon some steep and narrow gable. No sound of domestic industry, or domestic festivity, was heard, and no ray of candle or firelight glanced from the windows of the houses ; the ancient ordinance called the curfew, which the Conqueror had introduced into England, was at this time in full force in...