The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border: Their Main Features and Relations, المجلد 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1893 |
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... AND CASTLES - DAVID I. , XII . SIR SIMON FRASER AND THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE , XIII . THOMAS THE RHYMOUR , AND THE EARLY ROMANTIC • 267 299 SCHOOL OF POETRY IN THE LOWLANDS , 336 LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CALL CF BORDER HISTORY AND POETRY.
... AND CASTLES - DAVID I. , XII . SIR SIMON FRASER AND THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE , XIII . THOMAS THE RHYMOUR , AND THE EARLY ROMANTIC • 267 299 SCHOOL OF POETRY IN THE LOWLANDS , 336 LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CALL CF BORDER HISTORY AND POETRY.
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... Simon Fresel , keeper of the forest of Selkirk , to give to certain persons a number of oaks from the forest.2 In 1303-4 he built a large peel at Selkirk ( Pelum de Selkirk ) partly out of the wood of the forest.3 The same monarch ...
... Simon Fresel , keeper of the forest of Selkirk , to give to certain persons a number of oaks from the forest.2 In 1303-4 he built a large peel at Selkirk ( Pelum de Selkirk ) partly out of the wood of the forest.3 The same monarch ...
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... Simon Fraser , the hero of Roslin , and the unwavering friend till death of William Wallace . Then there is the now ruinous line of old castles and peels- flanking the banks of the river , and eyeing each other from their knowes all ...
... Simon Fraser , the hero of Roslin , and the unwavering friend till death of William Wallace . Then there is the now ruinous line of old castles and peels- flanking the banks of the river , and eyeing each other from their knowes all ...
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... ancient fort . - From Document in possession of Mr Simon Linton , tenant in Cademuir . 1 Cu is dog , greyhound , warrior . VOL . I. C 1 was open to assault by foes on the north , ANCIENT REMAINS , AND ORIGINAL INHABITANTS . 33.
... ancient fort . - From Document in possession of Mr Simon Linton , tenant in Cademuir . 1 Cu is dog , greyhound , warrior . VOL . I. C 1 was open to assault by foes on the north , ANCIENT REMAINS , AND ORIGINAL INHABITANTS . 33.
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... Simon's Hause and Katie's Hause in Peeblesshire , to say nothing of Butter- To these should be We have it in the Glenrath Burns , as mere Hause , in the Lake district . added the Icelandic seat or sate . Fa ' Sate , between the Douglas ...
... Simon's Hause and Katie's Hause in Peeblesshire , to say nothing of Butter- To these should be We have it in the Glenrath Burns , as mere Hause , in the Lake district . added the Icelandic seat or sate . Fa ' Sate , between the Douglas ...
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Abbey Aethelfrith Alexander ancient Angle Anglo-Saxon appears Arthur Arthurian ballad bard battle Bernicia Border boundary Britain Britons Brythonic burgh Burn Caer Carta Castle Catrail Celtic century charter Church Clyde Cornish Cumbria Cymric Damnonii Danes Danish David defence district ditch doubt Earl early east Edward England English Erceldoune Ettrick feet feudal Firth forest forts Gadeni Gaelic glen ground Guledig haugh hills Historia Britonum Ibid Jedburgh Kentigern king kingdom of Strathclyde land language later Liddel Loch Lord Lowlands of Scotland Malcolm Melrose Merlin monks Moreville mote mound Nennius northern Northumbria original passed Peebles Peeblesshire Peel Fell period Picts poems probably race regarded Rhymour Roman Roxburgh Roxburghshire Saxon Scandinavian Scots Scott Scottish Selkirkshire side Sir Simon Fraser Skene Solway southern stone stream supposed Taliessin Teviot Thomas Traquair tribes Tweed Tweeddale valley Vortigern wall Water Welsh wild Wood of Caledon Yarrow
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الصفحة 113 - Hill, and innumerable others of the same sort. These are all faithful to fact and superficial aspect, but they indicate no imaginative feeling about the objects named. Hawkshaw and Stanhope somewhat redeem the character of the Saxon names, and Windlestrae Law may pass for its literalness and suggestiveness of the brown and breezy bent. The Cymri, who were in the district before the Teutons, must have had a singularly fine musical sense ; and although we are not able always to trace the inner significance...
الصفحة 240 - Merlin, overtalk'd and overworn, Had yielded, told her all the charm, and slept. Then, in one moment, she put forth the charm Of woven paces and of waving hands, And in the hollow oak he lay as dead, And lost to life and use and name and fame. Then crying ' I have made his glory mine...
الصفحة 225 - When, with his Norman bowyer band, He came to waste Northumberland. xvi. But fain Saint Hilda's nuns would learn If, on a rock, by Lindisfarne, Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name...
الصفحة 140 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again,* But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
الصفحة 140 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
الصفحة 239 - It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless King. And after that, she set herself to gain Him, the most famous man of all those times, Merlin, who knew the range of all their arts, Had built the King his havens, ships, and halls, Was also Bard, and knew the starry heavens...
الصفحة 235 - O little pig! now apply thyself to reason, And listen to birds whose notes are pleasant, Sovereigns across the sea will come on Monday; Blessed will the Cymry be from that design. V. Sweet appletree that grows in the glade ! Their vehemence will conceal it from the lords of Rydderch, Trodden it is around its base, and men are about it. Terrible to them were heroic forms. Gwendydd loves me not, greets me not; I am hated by the firmest minister of Rydderch ; I have ruined his son and his daughter.
الصفحة 18 - Caddon Ford,* And full five thousand men was he; They saw the derke Foreste them before, They thought it awsome for to see. Then spak the lord, hight Hamilton, And to the nobil king said he, 'My sovereign liege, sum council tak, First at your nobilis, syne at me.
الصفحة 353 - WA8 at [Erceldoune :] With Tomas spak Y thare ; Ther herd Y rede in roune, Who Tristrem gat and bare. Who was king with croun ; And who him forsterd yare ; And who was bold baroun, As thair elders ware, Bi yere : — Tomas telles in toun, This auentours as thai ware.
الصفحة 343 - Dunbar demanda a Thomas de Essedoune quant la guere descoce prendreit fyn, e yl la repoundy e dyt" — " When man as mad a kyng of a capped man ; When mon is leuere...