Waverley Novels, 21. kötetRobert Cadell, Edinburgh, and Whittaker & Company London., 1831 |
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Abbot Ambrosius answered apartment arms attendants Auchtermuchty Avenel battle betwixt boat brother castle Catherine Seyton Chamberlain command dame damsel door Dryfesdale duty entered escape exclaimed eyes fair faith father favour fear followed garden George Douglas George of Douglas Grace hand hath heard heart Heaven Henry Seyton hither honour horse instantly Kennaquhair Kinross Lady Fleming Lady Loch Lady Lochleven Lady of Lochleven land Loch Lochleven Castle look Lord Lindesay Lord Ruthven Lord Seyton Lundin madam Magdalen Græme maiden Mary Fleming Mary of Scotland Mary Stewart Mary's Master ment Methinks mistress Nicneven night noble person pray present Princess Queen Mary replied the Queen Roland Græme royal Saint Scotland Scottish seemed servant Sir Robert Melville speak spoke steward stood sword tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought tion tone trust turned woman words yonder young youth
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207. oldal - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
25. oldal - I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; With mine own tears I wash away my balm...
6. oldal - Who is there, that, at the very mention of Mary Stuart's name, has not her countenance before him, familiar as that of the mistress of his youth, or the favourite daughter of his advanced age...
295. oldal - It seemed she knew her refuge, and where to have found it if she had once landed ; for there did, and yet do linger, at a little village called Kinross, hard at the Loch side, the same George Douglas, one Sempil, and one Beton, the which two were sometime her trusty servants, and, as yet appeareth, they mind her no less affection.
7. oldal - ... the actors command general and undivided attention. It is in vain to say that the portraits which exist of this remarkable woman are not like each other ; for, amidst their discrepancy, each possesses general features which the eye at once acknowledges as peculiar to the vision which our imagination has raised while we read her history for the first time, and which has been impressed upon it by the numerous prints and pictures which we have seen.
287. oldal - That is cared for,' said Roland ; * I locked gate and wicket on them when I went back, and no boat will stir from the island this night, if doors of good oak and bolts of iron can keep men within stone-walls. — And now I resign my office of porter of Lochleven, and give the keys to the Kelpie's keeping.