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xii. oldal
... able but some- what declamatory work , and as liable to sus- picion as the others , because written by an avowed partisan and active servant of the Queen . A crowd of inferior compositions followed , useful xii PREFACE .
... able but some- what declamatory work , and as liable to sus- picion as the others , because written by an avowed partisan and active servant of the Queen . A crowd of inferior compositions followed , useful xii PREFACE .
xxi. oldal
... able in any measure , to execute his own wishes , he would trust , that by a careful collation of all the works to which he has referred , he has succeeded , in separating much of the ore from the dross , and in giving a freshness ...
... able in any measure , to execute his own wishes , he would trust , that by a careful collation of all the works to which he has referred , he has succeeded , in separating much of the ore from the dross , and in giving a freshness ...
4. oldal
... able to read , and almost none to write . As for the mid- dle and lower orders , fragments of rude tradition- ary songs constituted their entire learning , and the savage war dance , inspired by the barbarous music of their native hills ...
... able to read , and almost none to write . As for the mid- dle and lower orders , fragments of rude tradition- ary songs constituted their entire learning , and the savage war dance , inspired by the barbarous music of their native hills ...
6. oldal
... able to accomplish . The unfortunate battle of Flodden , is a melancholy record both of the vi- gour of James's reign , and of the national advan- tages which his romantic spirit induced him to risk in pursuit of the worthless phantom ...
... able to accomplish . The unfortunate battle of Flodden , is a melancholy record both of the vi- gour of James's reign , and of the national advan- tages which his romantic spirit induced him to risk in pursuit of the worthless phantom ...
14. oldal
... able to cope with the craftiest of the Scotch nobility . Besides , her intimate connexion with the French court , coupled with the interest she might naturally be supposed to take in the affairs of a country over which her husband had ...
... able to cope with the craftiest of the Scotch nobility . Besides , her intimate connexion with the French court , coupled with the interest she might naturally be supposed to take in the affairs of a country over which her husband had ...
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153. oldal - She repented nothing but, when the Lords and others, at Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
168. oldal - Why should the pleasing face of a gentlewoman affray me ? I have looked in the faces of many angry men, and yet have not been afraid above measure.
137. oldal - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
111. oldal - ... memory of man, that day of the year was never seen a more dolorous face of the heaven, than was at her arrival, which two days after did so continue: for, besides the...
236. oldal - God forbid that I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot to my poor posterity, to shed blood without Law or Warrant...
236. oldal - I am so unhappy to have liven to see this unhappy day, in the which I am required, by direction from my most gracious Sovereign, to do an act which God and the law forbiddeth.
291. oldal - Bothwell for her husband, but avoweth constantly that she will live and die with him, and saith that if it were put to her choice to relinquish her crown and kingdom or the Lord Bothwell, she would leave her kingdom and dignity to go as a simple damsel with him, and that she will never consent that he shall fare worse or have more harm than herself.
64. oldal - Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours.
190. oldal - I know the truth of that, Madam," said I ; " you need not tell it me. Your Majesty thinks, if you were married, you would be but queen of England ; and now you are both king and queen. I know your spirit cannot endure a commander.
249. oldal - ... agreeable woman rather than an illustrious queen. The vivacity of her spirit, not sufficiently tempered with sound judgment, and the warmth of her heart, which was not at all times under the restraint of discretion, betrayed her both into errors and into crimes. To say that she was always unfortunate will not account for that long and almost uninterrupted succession of calamities which befel her; we must likewise add that she was often imprudent.