The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous: With General GlossaryMarcus Ward & Company, 1879 - 414 pages |
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abbot answered appeared archer arms attend Augustine Aymer de Valence Bangalore Begum Bertram called CASTLE DANGEROUS Castle of Douglas child chivalry church command danger daughter death desire Dickson Doctor Douglas Castle duty endeavoured English knight eyes fair lady Fairscribe Fakir fate father favour fear feelings followed garrison give governor Greenleaf hand Hartley heard Heaven Hillary honour hope horse house of Douglas Hyder Hyder Ali India John de Walton Lady Augusta Lady of Berkely Lawford look Lord of Douglas manner matter Menie Gray Michael Turnbull minstrel Monçada Nawaub never noble occasion perhaps person pleasure poor possessed present rendered replied respect Richard Middlemas Saint Bride Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Aymer Sir John Sir Knight soldiers speak supposed suspicion sword tell thaim thee Thomas Dickson thought Tippoo Turnbull voice wild wish Witherington woman words young knight youth
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Page 238 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 196 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 282 - The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.
Page 23 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
Page 89 - He longed, though he struggled against the impulse, to vie in curses with the reprobate, and in screams with the maniac. But his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, his mouth itself seemed choked with ashes ; there came upon him a dimness of sight, a rushing sound in his ears, and the powers of life were for a time suspended. CHAPTER VII A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the common weal.
Page 238 - They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 171 - Editor, are placed within brackets.'] §HE incidents on which the ensuing novel mainly turns, are derived from the ancient Metrical Chronicle of " The Bruce," by Archdeacon Barbour, and from the " History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus," by David Hume of Godscroft ; and are sustained by the immemorial tradition of the western parts of Scotland.