Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott: 1814-1818A. and C. Black, 1882 |
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Página 372 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps "Dundee's" wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive "Martyrs...
Página 250 - Their summer gambols tell, and mourn, And anxious ask, — Will spring return. And birds and lambs again be gay, And blossoms clothe the hawthorn spray?
Página 237 - The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill, In Ettrick's vale, is sinking sweet ; The westland wind is hush and still — The lake lies sleeping at my feet. Yet not the landscape to mine eye Bears those bright hues that once it bore ; • Though evening, with her richest dye, Flames o'er the hills of Ettrick's shore. " With listless look along the plain I see Tweed's silver current glide, i And coldly mark the holy fane Of Melrose rise in ruin'd pride.
Página 248 - It may be partiality," said he, at length; " but to my eye, these gray hills and all this wild border country have beauties peculiar to themselves. I like the very nakedness of the land ; it has something bold, and stern, and solitary about it. When I have been for some time in the rich scenery about Edinburgh, -which is like ornamented...
Página 243 - When you see Tom Campbell, tell him, with my best love, that I have to thank him for making me known to Mr Washington Irving, who is one of the best and pleasantest acquaintances I have made this many a day.
Página 345 - the King, God bless him! ' and second came — ' Gentlemen, there is another toast which never has been nor shall be omitted in this house of mine : I give you the health of Mr. Walter Scott, with three times three !
Página 41 - Several letters passed between us — one perhaps every half year. Like the old heroes in Homer, we exchanged gifts : — I gave Byron a beautiful dagger mounted with gold, which had been the property of the redoubted Elfi Bey. But I was to play the part of Diomed, in the Iliad, for Byron sent me, some time after, a large sepulchral vase of silver.
Página 49 - The second bumper was followed by cheers still more prolonged : and Scott then rose, and returned thanks in a short address, which struck the Lord Chief Commissioner as
Página 247 - you have done wonders. You have shaken the Eildon hills with your roaring; you may now lay by your artillery for the rest of the day. Maida is like the great gun at Constantinople...
Página 40 - Hardyknute, an imitation of the old Scottish ballad, with which he was so much affected, that some one who was in the same apartment asked me what I could possibly have been telling Byron by which he was so much agitated.