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... John Menteith with the indelible infamy . " Accursed , " says Arnold Blair , " be the day of nativity of John de Menteith , and may his name be struck out of the book of life . " But John de Menteith was all along a zealous favourer of ...
... John Menteith with the indelible infamy . " Accursed , " says Arnold Blair , " be the day of nativity of John de Menteith , and may his name be struck out of the book of life . " But John de Menteith was all along a zealous favourer of ...
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... John Menteith , son of Walter , Earl of Menteith , and the traitor Jack Short . NOTE W. Where's Nigel Bruce ? and De la Haye , And valiant Seton - where are they ? Where Somerville , the kind and free ? And Fraser , flower of chivalry ...
... John Menteith , son of Walter , Earl of Menteith , and the traitor Jack Short . NOTE W. Where's Nigel Bruce ? and De la Haye , And valiant Seton - where are they ? Where Somerville , the kind and free ? And Fraser , flower of chivalry ...
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Page 99 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 98 - Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 131 - O ! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Page 73 - But here,— above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Page 161 - Was shiver'd to the gauntlet grasp. Springs from the blow the startled horse, Drops to the plain the lifeless corse ; — First of that fatal field, how soon, How sudden, fell the fierce De Boune...