Historical romances of the author of Waverley, Volume 3 |
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Page 12
... vassals , that do no- thing but paddle in the mire with plough and har- row , from Yule to Michaelmas . I will call none lord , but him who wears a sword to make his title good ; and I will call none man , but he that can bear himself ...
... vassals , that do no- thing but paddle in the mire with plough and har- row , from Yule to Michaelmas . I will call none lord , but him who wears a sword to make his title good ; and I will call none man , but he that can bear himself ...
Page 13
... vassal to an old man with a cowl and shaven crown , while there are twenty barons who wear casque and plume that lack bold followers . Let them grant you these wretched acres , and much meal may they bear you to make brochan . " He left ...
... vassal to an old man with a cowl and shaven crown , while there are twenty barons who wear casque and plume that lack bold followers . Let them grant you these wretched acres , and much meal may they bear you to make brochan . " He left ...
Page 58
... - tage ; for you will see by the dinner she is about to spread for us , that the vassal of the kirk is sel- dom found with her basket bare . " While he thus laboured to reconcile Sir Piercie Shafton to 58 THE MONASTERY .
... - tage ; for you will see by the dinner she is about to spread for us , that the vassal of the kirk is sel- dom found with her basket bare . " While he thus laboured to reconcile Sir Piercie Shafton to 58 THE MONASTERY .
Page 83
... vassal , who art , therefore , in good truth , as passive an instrument of my accommoda- tion as this ill - made and rugged joint - stool on which I sit , or as the wooden trencher from which I eat my coarse commons . Wherefore , " he ...
... vassal , who art , therefore , in good truth , as passive an instrument of my accommoda- tion as this ill - made and rugged joint - stool on which I sit , or as the wooden trencher from which I eat my coarse commons . Wherefore , " he ...
Page 93
... vassals ; and then signing the cross with his outstretched arm , and exclaiming , " Bless ye- bless ye , my children ! " he hastened into the house and murmured not a little at the darkness and steepness of the rugged winding stair ...
... vassals ; and then signing the cross with his outstretched arm , and exclaiming , " Bless ye- bless ye , my children ! " he hastened into the house and murmured not a little at the darkness and steepness of the rugged winding stair ...
Common terms and phrases
arms aught Baron betwixt blood brother called castle Christie church Clinthill companion countenance Dame Elspeth Dame Glendinning dare Earl Earl of Murray Edward Glendinning English knight Euphuist eyes fair faith fate Father Eustace fear feeling female gallant glen Glendearg guest Halbert Glendinning Halidome hand hath head heart Heaven Henry Warden holy honour horse Julian Avenel Kennaquhair looked Lord Abbot maiden Mary Avenel matter ment Miller Miller's daughter mind Molinara Monastery Monk Morton moss-trooper Murray Mysie Happer never noble pause person pray preacher present Refectioner replied reverence reverend Sacristan Saint Mary's Scotland seemed shalt shew Sir John Foster Sir Knight Sir Piercie Shafton sorrow Southron speak spirit stood stranger Sub-Prior sword tell thee ther thine thirlage thou art thou hast thought Tibb tion tone tower turn vassals venison voice White Lady wilt word young Glendinning youth
Popular passages
Page 242 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 352 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 13 - Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Page 57 - ... and inevitably-necessary-to-be-remembered manual of all that is worthy to be known — which indoctrines the rude in civility, the dull in intellectuality, the heavy in jocosity, the blunt in gentility, the vulgar in nobility, and all of them in that unutterable perfection of human utterance, that eloquence which no other eloquence is sufficient to praise, that art which, when we call it by its own name of Euphuism, we bestow on it its richest panegyric.
Page 53 - Euphues and his England, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and reputation. The quaint, forced, and unnatural style which he introduced by his Anatomy of Wit...
Page 330 - Shafton when he looked elsewhere, and were dropped at once when they encountered his, that she was irresistible ! In fine, the affectionate delicacy of her whole demeanour, joined to the promptitude and boldness she had so lately evinced, tended to ennoble the services she had rendered, as if some sweet engaging Grace Put on some clothes to come abroad, And took a waiter's place.
Page 386 - ... he never would take money for them, and that I should have the whole advantage of all he wrote. This declaration became morally void when the question was about thousands, instead of a few hundreds ; and I perfectly agree with the admired and admirable Author of Waverley, that « the wise and good accept not gifts which are made in heat of blood, and which may be after repented of.
Page 299 - should be removed to hallowed ground, and his soul secured by the prayers of the Church in his behalf." Grief would have its natural course, and the voice of the comforter was wasted in vain.