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Página 328 - I give you shelter in my breast, Your own good blades must win the rest.' Pent in this fortress of the North, Think'st thou we will not sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as we may, And from the robber rend the prey ? Ay, by my soul! While on yon plain The Saxon rears one shock of grain, While, of ten thousand herds, there strays But one along yon river's maze, — The Gael, of plain and river heir, Shall with strong hand redeem his share.
Página 420 - I can forgive your little curiosity, madam, but you must pay the penalty. I may admit into my house, on a piece of business, persons wholly unworthy to be treated as guests by my wife. Neither lip of me nor of mine comes after Mr Murray of Broughton's.
Página 420 - When confronted with Sir John Douglas of Kelhead (ancestor of the Marquess of Queensberry), before the Privy Council in St James's, the prisoner was asked, " Do you know this witness?" " Not I," answered Douglas ; " I once knew a person who bore the designation of Murray of Broughton — but that was a gentleman and a man of honour, and one that could hold up his head!
Página 271 - If this glass do break or fall, Farewell the luck of Edenhall...
Página 419 - Mrs Scott's curiosity was strongly excited one autumn by the regular appearance, at a certain hour every evening, of a sedan chair, to deposit a person carefully muffled up in a mantle, who was immediately ushered into her husband's private room, and commonly remained with him there until long after the usual bed-time of this orderly family. Mr Scott answered her repeated...
Página 289 - As free as nature first made man, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 400 - in spite," we are told, " of a very delicate constitution, he underwent the greatest fatigues, and was the first on every occasion where his head or his hands could be of use : bold as a lion in the field, but ever merciful in the hour of victory.
Página 399 - I think, have done very well to return home, where you may be of more use than abroad. I shall say nothing here of what is passing in France, of which you will have been informed by Lord Semple ; and you may be well assured, that I shall neglect nothing that depends on me to induce the French to assist us, as it is reasonable to hope they will, if there be a general war. But if they ever undertake any thing in...
Página 399 - I had some time agoe a proposal made to me in relation to the seizeing of Stirling Castle. What I then heard, and what you now say on that subject is so general that I think it is not impossible but that the two proposals may be found originally one and the same project. I wish therefore you would enter a little more into particulars, that I may be the better able to determine what directions to send. As to what is represented about the...
Página 416 - ... singular. When advancing to the charge with his company, he received five wounds, two of them from balls that pierced his body through and through. Stretched on the ground, with his head resting on his hand, he called out loudly to the Highlanders of his company, " My lads, I am not dead. By G—, I shall see if any of you does not do his duty.