The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Tales of a grandfatherR.Cadell, 1836 |
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Trang 171 - Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one...
Trang 393 - The money is spent — the Highlands are quiet, and this is the only way of accompting among friends." We shall find afterwards, that the selfish avarice, and resentment of this unprincipled nobleman, gave rise to one of the most bloody, treacherous, and cruel actions, which dishonour the seventeenth century. Of this we shall speak hereafter ; at present, it is enough to repeat, that Breadalbane bribed, soothed, or threatened into submission to the Government, all the chiefs who had hitherto...
Trang 381 - OH last and best of Scots ! who didst maintain Thy country's freedom from a foreign reign ; New people fill the land now thou art gone, New gods the temples, and new kings the throne. Scotland and thou did each in other live ; Nor would'st thou her, nor could she thee survive. Farewell ! who, dying, didst support the state, And couldst not fall but with thy country's fate.
Trang 257 - Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband lying there ; she set the bairn...
Trang 173 - It was also true, that the Earl of Lauderdale, who, both from his high talents, and from the long imprisonment which he had sustained ever since the battle of Worcester, had a peculiar title to be consulted on Scottish affairs, strongly advised the King to suffer his northern subjects to retain possession of their darling form of worship...
Trang 70 - Charles, might have given to the republic such a degree of security as any government ought to be content with. It must be confessed, however, on the other side, that if the republican government had suffered the king to escape, it would have been an act of justice and generosity wholly unexampled; and to have granted him even his life, would have been one among the more rare efforts of virtue.
Trang 104 - It was a benefit, as well as an inconvenience, in those unhappy times, that the affections of all men were almost as well known as their faces, by the discovery they had made of themselves, in...
Trang 258 - She answered that she wished the salvation of all men, and the damnation of none. One deeply affected with the death of the other and her case, said 'Dear Margaret, say God save the King ! say God save the King!
Trang 204 - London once or twice a-year, and then only to kiss the king's hand, who had a great esteem for his worth and valour. His unusual dress and figure, when he was in London, never failed to draw after him a great crowd of boys and other young people, who constantly attended at his lodgings, and followed him with huzzas as he went to Court or returned from it. As he was a man of humour, he would always thank them for their...
Trang 204 - He was bred up very hardy from his youth, both in diet and clothing. He never wore boots, nor above one coat, which was close to his body, with close sleeves, like those we call jockey- coats.