 | 1829 - 612 oldal
...his queen having been delivered of a female child, was long remembered by his people. He turned his face to the wall, and was heard to mutter, ' It came...his family having acquired the crown by marriage. HIGHLAND REVENGE. One of the numerous popular stories told in ridicule of the Scottish Highlanders,... | |
 | 1829 - 476 oldal
...his Queen having been delivered of a female child, was long remembered by his people. He turned his face to the wall, and was heard to mutter—" It came...lass, and it will go with a lass— devil go with it 1" These, his last words, referred to the circumstance of his family having acquired the crown by marriage.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 442 oldal
...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne ; " then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words, presaging the extinction of his house, he made a signal of adieu to his courtiers,... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 oldal
...delivered, he inquired whether it was a male or female ; being told it was the latter, he exclaimed, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass ! Henry will make it his either by marriage or by arms !'* * Mary was crowned at Stirling, Sunday,... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 oldal
...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne, " then God's will be done ! It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words he turned his face to the wall, and died of a broken heart. t It was taken 'in the... | |
 | 1844 - 742 oldal
...living child, he exclaimed mournfully in allusion to the descent of the Stewarts, " God's will be done: it came with a lass and it will go with a lass." Mary, the unfortunate Princess Royal, or rather Queen of Scotland, at whose birth these doleful words... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 428 oldal
...reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne ; " then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." With these words, presaging the extinction of his house, he made a signal of adieu to his courtiers,... | |
 | David Peacock - 1849 - 688 oldal
...the circumstances which had brought tho Stewart line to tho throne, he added, " God's will bo done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass ; many miseries await this poor kingdom." He spoke little more, but turned his face to the wall, and... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1849 - 444 oldal
...calling to remembrance how the Stuart race had succeeded to the crown ; and he exclaimed impatiently, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass !" He then returned to his wonted murmur of " Fy ! is Oliver fled ? Is Oliver taken ? All is lost 1"... | |
 | Henry White - 1850 - 168 oldal
...born to him, he said, alluding to the manner in which the Stewart family succeeded to the throne, " It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass." He survived his daughter's birth only a week. EXERCISES. 1. What arrangement did Robert the Bruce make... | |
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Is it so?" reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne; "then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass. 
