Earliest times to the death of Robert Bruce, 1329

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Blackie & Son, 1896
 

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Seite 4 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Seite 65 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Seite 264 - ... when they have eaten too much of the sodden flesh, and their stomach appears weak and empty, they place this plate over the fire, mix with water their oatmeal, and when the plate is heated, they put a little of the paste upon it, and make a thin cake, like a cracknel or biscuit, which they eat to warm their stomachs : it is therefore no wonder, that they perform a longer day's march than other soldiers.
Seite 270 - My dear friend, Lord James Douglas, you know that I have had much to do, and have suffered many troubles, during the tune I have lived, to support the rights of my crown : at the time that I was most occupied I made a vow, the non-accomplishment of which gives me much uneasiness — I vowed that if I could finish my wars in such a manner that I might have quiet to govern peaceably, I...
Seite 8 - From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Seite 59 - An old, unviolated, sacred wood, Whose gloomy boughs, thick interwoven made A chilly, cheerless, everlasting shade : There nor the rustic gods nor satyrs sport, Nor fawns and sylvans with the nymphs resort, But barb'rous priests some dreadful Power adore, And lustrate every tree with human gore.
Seite 3 - collect the sheaves in great barns and thrash out the corn there, because they have so little sunshine, that our open thrashing-places would be of little use in that land of clouds and rain." He added, that they made a drink
Seite 140 - Scotland led in luve and le, Away wes sons of ale and brede, Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle : ' Oure gold wes changyd into lede, Cryst, borne into virgynyte, Succour Scotland and remede, That stad is in perplexyte...

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