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GLOSSARY. OLD MORTALITY by Sir Walter Scott List of Illustrations Bookcover Spines Titlepage Dedication First Series Frontispiece The Graveyard Tillietudlem Castle Edith on the Battlements …
Preliminary. Why seeks he with unwearied toil Through death's dim walks to urge his way, Reclaim his long-asserted spoil, …
Summon an hundred horse, by break of day, To wait our pleasure at the castle gates. Douglas. Under the reign of the last Stewarts, the…
Horseman and horse confess'd the bitter pang, And arms and warrior fell with hea vy clang. Pleasures of Hope. When the military evolut…
At f airs he play'd before the spearmen, And gaily graithed in their gear then, Steel bonnets, pikes, and swords shone clear then As ony bead; Now wha sall play be…
Arouse thee, youth!—it is no human call— God's church is leaguer'd—haste to man the wall; Haste where the Redcross banners wave on high, Signal …
Yea, this man's brow, like to a tragic leaf, Foretells the nature of a tragic volume. Shakspeare. Being at length rid of the housekee…
From seventeen years till now, almost fourscore, Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, But at fourscore it…
The devil a puritan, or any thing else he is, but a time-server. Twelfth Night. It was evening when Mr Henry Morton perceived an old woman, wrapped in her tartan plaid, supported by a stou…
I am a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And s how my cuts and scars wherever I come; This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoming the Fre…
