The monasterySanborn, Carter and Bazin, 1853 |
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Abbot of Kelso answered arms aught Baron better betwixt blood brethren brother called castle Christie church Clint-hill companion Dame Elspeth Dame Glendinning daugh duty Earl Earl of Murray Edward Glendinning English knight Euphuist eyes faith fate Father Eustace Father Philip fear gallant give glen guest Halbert Glendinning Halidome hand hath head heard heart Heaven Henry Warden heretic holy honour horse Julian Avenel Kennaquhair looked Lord Abbot maiden Martin Mary Avenel matter Miller mind Molinara Monastery Monk Morton moss-trooper Murray Mysie Happer never noble person pray preacher present replied reverence Sacristan Saint Mary's Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Knight Sir Piercie Shafton sorrow soul Southron speak spirit stranger Sub-Prior sword tell thee thine thou hast thought Tibb tone tower of Glendearg turn vassals voice White Lady William de Douglas wilt word young youth
Popular passages
Page 54 - 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 119 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 106 - She was so very well made, agile at once and graceful, with her hand and arm as white as snow, and her face in which a smile contended with a blush, and her eyes which looked ever at 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...
Page 61 - Blue Bonnets over the Border." i. March, march, Ettricke and Teviotdale, Why the deil dinna ye march forward in order? March, march, Eskdale and Liddesdale, All the blue bonnets are bound for the Border. Many a banner spread, Flutters above your head, Many a crest that is famous in story ; Mount and make ready then, Sons of the mountain glen, Fight for the Queen and the old Scottish glory ii.
Page 32 - Amidst this company stood Mr. Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding...
Page 179 - I had, — cuts my hatband, and yet it was massy goldsmith's work, cuts my brims, which, by good fortune, being thick embroidered with gold twist and spangles, disappointed the force of the blow : nevertheless, it grazed on my shoulder, takes me away six purls of an Italian cut-work band I wore, cost me three pound in the Exchange but three days before.