The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Том 90Archibald Constable and Company, 1822 |
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... friends and kinsmen , Allies and vassals , thou wert wont to lead- A thousand followers shrunk to sixty lances In twelve years ' space ! —And thy brave sons , Sir Alan , Alas ! I fear to ask . Swinton . All slain , De Vipont . In my ...
... friends and kinsmen , Allies and vassals , thou wert wont to lead- A thousand followers shrunk to sixty lances In twelve years ' space ! —And thy brave sons , Sir Alan , Alas ! I fear to ask . Swinton . All slain , De Vipont . In my ...
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... friends , Had shar'd the banquet and the chace together , Fought side by side , -and our first cause of strife , Woe to the pride of both , was but a light Vipont . You are at feud , then , with the mighty Gordon ? Swinton . At deadly ...
... friends , Had shar'd the banquet and the chace together , Fought side by side , -and our first cause of strife , Woe to the pride of both , was but a light Vipont . You are at feud , then , with the mighty Gordon ? Swinton . At deadly ...
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... friends than enemies ! I'm glad that these dim eyes shall see no more on't . Let thy hand close them , Gordon -- I will think My fair - hair'd William renders me that office . Gordon and De Vipont immediate- ly rush on the English line ...
... friends than enemies ! I'm glad that these dim eyes shall see no more on't . Let thy hand close them , Gordon -- I will think My fair - hair'd William renders me that office . Gordon and De Vipont immediate- ly rush on the English line ...
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... friend , I should stroke my chin , adjust my cravat- " Ah ! how d'ye do , Will ? -how are you ? -seen the Magazines ... friends as ing a Sonnet to Miss T's eye- brow , perhaps , or enditing an epistle ing - you're utterly wrong - I'm ...
... friend , I should stroke my chin , adjust my cravat- " Ah ! how d'ye do , Will ? -how are you ? -seen the Magazines ... friends as ing a Sonnet to Miss T's eye- brow , perhaps , or enditing an epistle ing - you're utterly wrong - I'm ...
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... friends ; " so good - morning : we shall see you to - night at Lel- lon's , " and so they left me to my meditations ... friend . Warm hearted and cool headed , the impetuosities of his genius are held in due subjection by the clearness ...
... friends ; " so good - morning : we shall see you to - night at Lel- lon's , " and so they left me to my meditations ... friend . Warm hearted and cool headed , the impetuosities of his genius are held in due subjection by the clearness ...
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