The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border: Their Main Features and Relations, المجلد 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1893 |
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... least since the middle ages , is , looking to its course from the wilds of Tweedsmuir , the bright centre of the Lowland country . Historically the river has been even its heart , so far at least as strong bold action , the gradual ...
... least since the middle ages , is , looking to its course from the wilds of Tweedsmuir , the bright centre of the Lowland country . Historically the river has been even its heart , so far at least as strong bold action , the gradual ...
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... least interesting in scenery . The Tweed , from its source in Tweed's Well , about a hundred miles from the sea , flows from south- west to north - east , and cuts its channel through the bare Silurian rocks , passing clearly in stream ...
... least interesting in scenery . The Tweed , from its source in Tweed's Well , about a hundred miles from the sea , flows from south- west to north - east , and cuts its channel through the bare Silurian rocks , passing clearly in stream ...
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... least to quicken and nourish the pathos and the quiet reverence of the heart . " 1 Long ago this region was wholly , or in great part , under the ocean ; and where the highest hills now catch . the first glimmer of the early sun , the ...
... least to quicken and nourish the pathos and the quiet reverence of the heart . " 1 Long ago this region was wholly , or in great part , under the ocean ; and where the highest hills now catch . the first glimmer of the early sun , the ...
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... least the higher portions of the sunken area . At length there came a time , known as the second or subsequent glacial epoch , when the land , having been once more upheaved , was again covered by one unbroken ice - surface , until this ...
... least the higher portions of the sunken area . At length there came a time , known as the second or subsequent glacial epoch , when the land , having been once more upheaved , was again covered by one unbroken ice - surface , until this ...
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... least a portion of the Border district , 1 See Green , Making of England , passim . 2 " The water of Clyde divideth Lennox on the north side from the baronie of Renfrew , and it arises out of the same hill in Calidon Wood , from whence ...
... least a portion of the Border district , 1 See Green , Making of England , passim . 2 " The water of Clyde divideth Lennox on the north side from the baronie of Renfrew , and it arises out of the same hill in Calidon Wood , from whence ...
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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...