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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... looked at a distance like a rampant of dark red porphyry . Occasionally , too , the eye rested on the steep brown extent of moorland , as the sunbeam glanced baek from the little tarn or mountain pool , whose 7 CASTLE DANGEROUS.
... looked at a distance like a rampant of dark red porphyry . Occasionally , too , the eye rested on the steep brown extent of moorland , as the sunbeam glanced baek from the little tarn or mountain pool , whose 7 CASTLE DANGEROUS.
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... looked after our own evening refreshment , than that I stood here gaping and talking about other folk's matters . ' So saying , he called out in a thundering tone of voice , ' Dickson ! —what ho , Thomas Dickson ! —will you not ...
... looked after our own evening refreshment , than that I stood here gaping and talking about other folk's matters . ' So saying , he called out in a thundering tone of voice , ' Dickson ! —what ho , Thomas Dickson ! —will you not ...
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... of your house like a litter of blind puppies , when not one of them looked behind to see who had done him the courtesy until he was half - way to Cairntable . ' ' ' Ay , ' answered the Scotchman , drawing 23 CASTLE DANGEROUS.
... of your house like a litter of blind puppies , when not one of them looked behind to see who had done him the courtesy until he was half - way to Cairntable . ' ' ' Ay , ' answered the Scotchman , drawing 23 CASTLE DANGEROUS.
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... looked after as well as if you came with a gay brow and a light cheek , such as best becomes the gay science . ' ' But wherefore , may I ask , ' said Bertram , ' so much displeased but now at my young friend Charles ? ' The youth ...
... looked after as well as if you came with a gay brow and a light cheek , such as best becomes the gay science . ' ' But wherefore , may I ask , ' said Bertram , ' so much displeased but now at my young friend Charles ? ' The youth ...
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... looked in his day for the honour of knighthood , completed the detachment , which seemed so disposed as to secure the minstrel from escape , and to protect him against violence . Not , ' said the young knight , addressing himself to Ber ...
... looked in his day for the honour of knighthood , completed the detachment , which seemed so disposed as to secure the minstrel from escape , and to protect him against violence . Not , ' said the young knight , addressing himself to Ber ...
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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...