The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Tales of a grandfather. 1-5. History of Scotland

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A. and C. Black, 1870
 

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245 페이지 - Heaven spare me from such gibing! .... On Sunday (April last)," pursues our courtly gossip, " my lord of London preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, ' That if the bishop held more discourse on such matters, she would fit him for heaven; but he should walk thither without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him.
350 페이지 - ... war where conquest might have been easy. He was fond of his dignity, while he was perpetually degrading it by undue familiarity; capable of much public labour, yet often neglecting it for the meanest amusement; a wit, though a pedant; and a scholar, though fond of the conversation of the ignorant and uneducated.
191 페이지 - She then prepared for the block, by taking off her veil and upper garments ; and one of the executioners rudely endeavouring to assist, she gently checked him, and said with a smile, that she had not been accustomed to undress before so many spectators, nor to be served by such valets.
32 페이지 - He then asked the king in turn who he was, and James replied, as usual, that he was the Goodman of Ballengiech, a poor man who had a small appointment about the palace; but he added that, if John Howieson...
30 페이지 - It was late, and the company were rather short of victuals, though they had more than enough of liquor. The chief, seeing so much fat venison passing his very door, seized on it; and to the expostulations of the keepers, who told him it belonged to King James, he answered insolently, that if James was King in Scotland, he, Buchanan, was King in Kippen; being the name of the district in which the castle of Arnpryor lay.
182 페이지 - That if any rebellion shall be excited in the kingdom, or any thing attempted to the hurt of her majesty's person, by or for...
282 페이지 - Resolved to satisfy herself, she paid him a visit in the Canongate, where he had his residence, as Dean of the Chapel Royal. The retinue of servants through which she passed staggered the good woman's confidence, and on being ushered into the room, where the bishop sat in state, she exclaimed — "Oh, sir, what's this? and ye hae really left the guid cause, and turned prelate ! " "Janet," said the bishop, "I have got a new light upon these things.
31 페이지 - The porter went grumbling into the house, and told his master that there was a fellow with a red beard at the gate, who called himself the- Goodman of Ballengiech, who said he was come to dine with the King of Kippen.
350 페이지 - ... conquest might have been easy. He was fond of his dignity, while he was perpetually degrading it by undue familiarity ; capable of much public labour, yet often neglecting it for the meanest amusement ; a wit, though a pedant ; and a scholar, though fond of the conversation of the ignorant and the uneducated. Even his timidity of temper was not uniform ; and there were moments of his life, and those critical, in' which he showed the spirit of his ancestors. He was laborious in trifles, and a...
33 페이지 - Then,' said John, after he had again looked around the room, 'it must be either you or me, for all but us two are bareheaded.' "The King laughed at John's fancy; and, that the good yeoman might have occasion for mirth also, he made him a present of the farm of Braehead, which he had wished so much to possess, on condition that John...

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