The Monastery: A Romance, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, Bookseller to the King, Edinburgh., 1820 - Scotland - 351 pages |
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answered Halbert art thou aught Baron bert better betwixt blood brother castle of Avenel Christie Clinthill companion countenance courtier Dame Elspeth Dame Glendinning dinning doublet Edward English knight Euphuism eyes fate Father Eustace fear feeling gallant give Glendearg guest Halbert Glen Halbert Glendinning Halidome hand handfasted hath heart Heaven Henry Vaughan Henry Warden holy honour Julian Avenel Kitchener lance linstock looked Lord Abbot Martin Mary Avenel matter mill Miller mind Monks Mysie ning noble passion pause pray preacher present Refectioner replied Halbert reverend right ho rustic safety Saint Mary's sate Scotland seemed shew Sir Knight Sir Piercie Shaf Sir Piercie Shafton speak spirit spoke stood stranger Sub-Prior sword tell thee ther thine thirlage thou art thou hast thou wilt thyself Tibb timate tion tone tower turned venison voice White Lady words young Glendinning youth
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Page 309 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 50 - ... manual of all that is worthy to be known — which indoctrines the rude in civility, the dull in intellectuality, the heavy in jocosity, the blunt in gentility, the vulgar in nobility, and all of them in that unutterable perfection of human utterance, that eloquence which no other eloquence is sufficient to praise, that art which, when we call it by its own name of Euphuism, we bestow on it its richest panegyric.
Page 323 - Come from the hills where your hirsels are grazing, Come from the glen of the buck and the roe; Come to the crag where the beacon is blazing, Come with the buckler, the lance, and the bow. Trumpets are sounding, • War-steeds are bounding, Stand to your arms and march in good order; England shall many a day Tell of the bloody fray, When the Blue Bonnets came over the Border.