Waverley Novels, Volumen6Little, Brown & Company, 1870 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Allan M'Aulay Angus M'Aulay Annot Lyle answered Ardvoirlich Argyle Argyle's Argyleshire arms army attendants auld BLACK DWARF blood called Captain Dalgetty castle cavalier Chiefs clan command companion Convention of Estates Covenanters David Ritchie door Drumthwacket Dugald Dalgetty Earl Earl of Menteith Earnscliff Ellieslaw Elshie enemy exclaimed eyes father followers frae gentlemen Grace Gustavus hand head heard Heugh-foot Highland Hobbie Elliot honour horse Ilderton Inverary Isabella King Knight of Ardenvohr lady Laird look Lord Menteith Lowland M'Callum Major Dalgetty Mareschal College Marquis military misanthropy Miss Vere Mist Montrose Montrose's morning muckle never night ower party person Ranald MacEagh rank Ratcliffe replied respect Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Dugald Sir Duncan Campbell Sir Frederick Langley soldier speak stood sword thee thou voice weel Westburnflat whilk wild young
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Página 17 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Página 149 - Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.
Página 167 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 267 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon ; and let men say, we be men of good government, being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
Página 271 - Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one ! They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death. Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock...
Página 207 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 149 - I'll smiling mock at thy neglect, And never love thee more. But if no faithless action stain Thy love and constant word, I'll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword...
Página 221 - Revolution, as traditions of no very distant date represent him as cruising about in that country, very old, very deaf, and very full of interminable stories about the immortal Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the North, and the bulwark of the Protestant Faith.
Página 268 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 367 - Dalgetty by name, who had pitched his tent in that little village, after all his campaigns, subsisting upon an ensign's half-pay, though called by courtesy a Captain. As this old gentleman, who had been in all the German wars, found very few to listen to his tales of military feats, he formed a sort of alliance with me, and I used invariably to attend him for the pleasure of hearing those communications.