Old Edinburgh: Being an Account of the Ancient Capital of the Kingdom of Scotland, Including Its Streets, Houses, Notable Inhabitants, and Customs in the Olden Time, Tập 1L.C. Page, 1908 |
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Trang 368 - No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust.
Trang 236 - Argyll on the bed, sleeping in his irons, the placid sleep of infancy. The conscience of the renegade smote him. He turned away, sick at heart, ran out of the Castle and took refuge in the dwelling of a lady of his family who lived hard by.
Trang 132 - Slowly she ambled on her way Amid her lords and ladies gay. Priest, abbot, layman, all were there, And presbyter with look severe ; There rode the lords of France and Spain, Of England, Flanders, and Lorraine, While serried thousands round them stood, From shore of Leith to Holyrood.
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Trang 246 - His daughter tells me that her father's conversation had worked her feelings up to such a pitch, that when the lid was again removed, she nearly fainted, and drew back from the circle. As she was retiring, she was startled by his voice exclaiming, in a tone of the deepest emotion, " something between anger and despair," as she expresses it, —