The Pirate, 1 tomasNimmo, 1893 |
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... R.S.A. Etched by F. S. Walker 112 THE SWORD DANCE . Drawn by Lockhart Bogle . Etched by H. W. Batley 234 NORNA TELLING HER TALE . Drawn by Lockhart Bogle . Etched by H. Macbeth - Raeburn . 294 L THE PIRATE . Nothing of him that doth fade.
... R.S.A. Etched by F. S. Walker 112 THE SWORD DANCE . Drawn by Lockhart Bogle . Etched by H. W. Batley 234 NORNA TELLING HER TALE . Drawn by Lockhart Bogle . Etched by H. Macbeth - Raeburn . 294 L THE PIRATE . Nothing of him that doth fade.
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... Norna , and Æolus in the Odyssey , kept the winds in a bag , and could sell a fair breeze . " She was a miserable figure , upwards of ninety , she told me , and dried up like a mummy . A sort of clay - coloured cloak , folded over her ...
... Norna , and Æolus in the Odyssey , kept the winds in a bag , and could sell a fair breeze . " She was a miserable figure , upwards of ninety , she told me , and dried up like a mummy . A sort of clay - coloured cloak , folded over her ...
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... Norna , by clasping of hands through Odin's stone ring , was still practised as a form of betrothal . ( Lockhart , iv . 282. ) Some island people were despised , as by Magnus Troil , as 66 poor sneaks " who ate limpets , " the last of ...
... Norna , by clasping of hands through Odin's stone ring , was still practised as a form of betrothal . ( Lockhart , iv . 282. ) Some island people were despised , as by Magnus Troil , as 66 poor sneaks " who ate limpets , " the last of ...
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... Norna as a replica of Meg Merrilies . She is , in- deed , " something distinct from the Dumfriesshire gipsy " in truth , she rather resembles the Ulrica of " Ivanhoe . " Like her , she is haunted by the memory of an awful crime , an ...
... Norna as a replica of Meg Merrilies . She is , in- deed , " something distinct from the Dumfriesshire gipsy " in truth , she rather resembles the Ulrica of " Ivanhoe . " Like her , she is haunted by the memory of an awful crime , an ...
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... Norna , who holds the thread of the plot , but these characters are all well differentiated . Again , he had types , especially the pedantic type , which attracted him , but they vary as much as Yellowley and Dugald Dalgetty , the ...
... Norna , who holds the thread of the plot , but these characters are all well differentiated . Again , he had types , especially the pedantic type , which attracted him , but they vary as much as Yellowley and Dugald Dalgetty , the ...
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ancient ANDREW LANG answered betwixt Bimbister boat brave Bryce Snailsfoot Burgh-Westra called Captain Cleveland Claud Halcro dance dark daunt Drows Dwarfie Stone father favour fear Fitful-head frae glorious John guests hand hear heard heart hospitality islands isles jagger Jarlshof John Dryden Kirkwall lady land Lerwick light look Magnus Troil mair Maister Mordaunt mansion master mind Minna Mistress Baby Mordaunt Mertoun never Norna Norse Norsemen occasion Odin old Norse once Orkney Papa Stour pedlar Pirate plough Ranzelman replied Mordaunt rock scarce Scart Scotland Scott seemed shore sister Skerry song speak stranger supposed Swertha swords tacksman tale tell thing thou thought Thule tion tone Triptole Triptolemus Yellowley Tronda Udaller vessel voice waves weel Westra wild wind woman words young youth Zetland
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ix psl. - We were near enough Abbotsford to partake as often as we liked of its brilliant society ; yet could do so without being exposed to the worry and exhaustion of spirit which the daily reception of newcomers entailed upon all the family except Sir Walter himself.
238 psl. - I fear, too early : for my mind misgives, Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels...
326 psl. - ... time for it. The woman's dwelling and appearance were not unbecoming her pretensions: her house, which was on the brow of the steep hill on which Stromness is founded, was only accessible by a series of dirty and precipitous lanes, and for exposure might have been the abode of Eolus himself, in whose commodities the inhabitant dealt.
122 psl. - He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea.
ix psl. - Even his temper sank sometimes under the solemn applauses of learned dulness, the vapid raptures of painted and periwigged dowagers, the horseleech avidity with which underbred foreigners urged their questions, and the pompous simpers of condescending magnates. When sore beset...