The Scott Originals: An Account of Notables & Worthies, the Originals of Characters in the Waverley NovelsC. Scribner's Sons, 1912 - Всего страниц: 431 |
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Abbotsford Adam Rolland afterwards Andrew Crosbie Antiquary appeared auld ballads Balmaclellan Black Dwarf Blue-gown Border Bradwardine Callum Castle CHAPTER character Churchyard Colonel Constable cottage Crosbie Culloden daft Jock Dandie Dinmont daughter David Ritchie Davie Gellatley death died Dominie Sampson door doubt Earlston Earnscliff Edie Ochiltree Edinburgh Elliot father favour figure FORBES OF PITSLIGO George Gordon Guy Mannering gypsy hands Hawick heart hero Highland honour Invernahyle Jacobite James Jean Jeanie Jock Gray John Kirk knew laddie Lady Laidlaw laird Liddesdale lived Lockhart Lord Luscar Mac-Ivor MacGregor Madge Manor Manse Melrose memory ment minister Miss Monkbarns never night novel Ochiltree Old Mortality Old Mortality's Oldbuck Original parish Peeblesshire person Pitsligo Pleydell portrait Prestonpans prototype Rebecca Rob Roy Robert Chambers Robert Paterson romance Sanson scene Scotland Scots Scottish Selkirk Sir Walter story Thomson tion tombstone Tully-Veolan Waverley Whitefoord wife young
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Стр. 238 - Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. '"Tell me, thou bonny bird. When shall I marry me?' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.' '"Who makes the bridal bed, Birdie, say truly?' — 'The grey-headed sexton, That delves the grave duly. "The glow-worm o'er grave and stone Shall light thee steady; The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.
Стр. 194 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
Стр. 184 - Honour'd and bless'd in their shadow might grow ! Loud should Clan-Alpine then Ring from her deepmost glen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho ! ieroe ! From The Lady of the Lake.
Стр. 157 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Стр. 114 - It's weel wi' you gentles, that can sit in the house wi' handkerchers at your een when ye lose a friend ; but the like o' us maun to our wark again, if our hearts were beating as hard as my hammer.
Стр. 138 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Стр. 50 - Mr. Scott with great ceremony, and insisted upon himself leading his horse to the stable. Shortreed accompanied Willie, however ; and the latter, after taking a deliberate peep at Scott, ' out by the edge of the door-cheek...
Стр. 236 - DEANS : refusing the slightest departure from veracity, even to save the life of her sister, she nevertheless showed her kindness and fortitude in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense of personal exertions which the time rendered as difficult as the motive was laudable. Respect the grave of poverty, when combined with the love of truth and dear affection.
Стр. 184 - Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!" Proudly our pibroch has thrilled in Glen Fruin, And Bannochar's groans to our slogan replied; Glen-Luss and Ross-dhu, they are smoking in ruin, And the best of Loch Lomond lie dead on her side. Widow and Saxon maid Long shall lament our raid, Think of Clan-Alpine with fear and with woe; Lennox and Leven-glen Shake when they hear again, "Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!
Стр. 218 - ... nature — I might comfort myself with the thought, that I would hesitate to strip myself to the contest so fearlessly as Byron does ; or to command the wonder and terror of the public, by exhibiting, in my own person, the sublime attitude of the dying gladiator. But with the old frankness of twenty years since, I will fairly own, that this same delicacy of mine may arise more from conscious want of vigour and inferiority, than from a -delicate dislike to the nature of the conflict.