The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5 |
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... Northumberland , and extending from the northern bank of the South Tyne to the Frith of Forth , were called the Ottadini . * West- ward of this powerful nation lay the Gadeni , who held the west part of Northumberland , great part of ...
... Northumberland , and extending from the northern bank of the South Tyne to the Frith of Forth , were called the Ottadini . * West- ward of this powerful nation lay the Gadeni , who held the west part of Northumberland , great part of ...
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... Northumberland , Berwickshire , and Lothian , somewhere , probably , about the junction of Tweed and Ettrick , and in the neighbourhood of the Catrail , there fell three hundred chieftains , all of whom , as appears from the elegy of ...
... Northumberland , Berwickshire , and Lothian , somewhere , probably , about the junction of Tweed and Ettrick , and in the neighbourhood of the Catrail , there fell three hundred chieftains , all of whom , as appears from the elegy of ...
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... Northumberland . These conquerors spread themselves on all sides , and became divided into two provinces , Deira and Bernicia . The Deirians occupied the northern division of Northumberland , with the bishopric of Durham , and made ...
... Northumberland . These conquerors spread themselves on all sides , and became divided into two provinces , Deira and Bernicia . The Deirians occupied the northern division of Northumberland , with the bishopric of Durham , and made ...
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... Northumberland . He fell ; * but his death was promptly and dreadfully avenged by the fresh invasion headed by his sons , Inguar and Hubba . They appear totally to have subverted the Saxon kingdom of Northumberland founded by Ida , and ...
... Northumberland . He fell ; * but his death was promptly and dreadfully avenged by the fresh invasion headed by his sons , Inguar and Hubba . They appear totally to have subverted the Saxon kingdom of Northumberland founded by Ida , and ...
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... Northumberland , and on the borders of Cumberland , are plausibly ascribed to them , and the names of their deities have been imposed upon several tracts in the same district . But we find none of those Runic monuments so common in ...
... Northumberland , and on the borders of Cumberland , are plausibly ascribed to them , and the names of their deities have been imposed upon several tracts in the same district . But we find none of those Runic monuments so common in ...
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Popular passages
Page 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Page 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Page 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 295 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Page 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Page 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Page 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 300 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.